Nuclear Oncology

In 2005, the results of several investigations agreed that some colon tumors were directly related to the consumption of red meat, and today these data have not changed.

The EPIC study, which involved five Spanish centers, became the latest in a long line of evidence in the excess of red meat has been associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer. The same study served to demonstrate that at present there is no evidence that consumption of chicken has something to do with this disease.

Abuse of red meat in the diet was associated with other cancers, breast cancer in 2006, these were tumors that grow especially influenced by the action of hormones. Specifically, women who drank more than a serving or serving half of these products a day (burgers, pork, sausage, bacon, hot dogs, etc …) had twice as much risk of developing hormone-dependent breast tumor that who limit their meat intake to three or fewer servings a week. Confirmed evidence for a new job at the University of Leeds, UK, published in the British Journal of Cancer ‘, 2007.

It seems that the culprits of this association are two substances found in meat, hemoglobin and myoglobin, which can trigger the formation of carcinogens in the gut while saturated fats and the presence of hormones in animal meat are other factors that have signed the development of these types of tumors.