Largest study of vegetarian diets and cancer shows lower risk of five cancers

The largest ever study of non-meat diets and cancer risk has found that vegetarian diets are associated with lower risks of several cancers—breast, prostate, kidney and pancreatic cancers, and multiple myeloma—but a higher risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus. The study was led by researchers at Oxford Population Health's Cancer Epidemiology Unit. It is published in the British Journal of Cancer.