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Healthy lifestyle, endoscopic screening, and colorectal cancer incidence and mortality in the United States: A nationwide cohort study – PLoS Blogs
Kai Wang and colleagues study contributions of healthy lifestyles and endoscopic screening to colorectal cancer outcomes.
Abstract
Background
Healthy lifestyle and screening represent 2 major approaches to colorectal cancer (CRC) prevention. It remains unknown whether the CRC-preventive benefit of healthy lifestyle differs by endoscopic screening status, and how the combination of healthy lifestyle with endoscopic screening can improve CRC prevention.
Methods and findings
We assessed lifestyle and endoscopic screening biennially among 75,873 women (Nurses Health Study, 1988 to 2014) and 42,875 men (Health Professionals…
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