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The role of diet as a modulator of cancer initiation and promotion has been suggested on epidemiological grounds showing changes in cancer incidence as people migrate from low cancer incidence (breast and prostate) countries to high incidence countries.1 By the third generation the descendants of these migrants have acculturated and now have the same cancer incidence as natives of the host country. Conversely immigrants from these same countries where stomach and esophageal cancer has a high incidence show a drop by the third generation when they move into a country with a low incidence of these cancers.2
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Bradlow, H.L., Telang, N.T., Sepkovic, D.W., Osborne, M.P. (1999). Phytochemicals as Modulators of Cancer Risk. In: Zappia, V., Della Ragione, F., Barbarisi, A., Russo, G.L., Iacovo, R.D. (eds) Advances in Nutrition and Cancer 2. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 472. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3230-6_18
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