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The Epidemiology of Large Bowel Cancer¹

Division of Epidemiology, Naylor Dana Institute for Disease Prevention, American Health Foundation, New York, New York 10019

Results from epidemiological studies have provided clues as to etiological factors involved in the development of large bowel cancer. Overnutrition, especially in terms of dietary fat consumed, appears to be a key etiological variable affecting the rate of colon cancer. Epidemiologists can provide the leads for chemists and basteriologists to pursue in population groups and for experimentalists to test in laboratory animals. Coordination of and cooperation between many disciplines is necessary in order to contribute to the prevention of this man-made disease.

¹ Presented at the Conference on Nutrition in the Causation of Cancer, May 19 to 22, 1975, Key Biscayne, Fla. This study is in part supported by National Cancer Institute Grant CA-12376, American Cancer Society Grant CI-115A, and National Cancer Institute Grant CA-16382 from the National Large Bowel Cancer Project.