Eating cruciferous vegetables at least once a week could cut the risk of developing mouth cancer, according to an article published in the Annals of Oncology.1 Cruciferous vegetables are from the vegetable family Brassicaceae and include broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, sprouts, watercress and radish.
Mouth cancer campaigners the British Dental Health Foundation believe the study is further evidence of the link between poor diet and mouth cancer, one of the risk factors for developing the disease.
The research revealed that compared to men and women who ate no cruciferous vegetables, those who ate them at least once a week cut their risk of mouth cancer by almost a fifth (17%). The results also showed that the vegetables cut the risk of a number of other cancers by up to almost 32%.
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Bosetti C, Filomeno M, Riso P et al. Cruciferous vegetables and cancer risk in a network of case-control studies. Ann Oncol 2012; 2198–2203.
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Bring on the sprouts. Br Dent J 213, 381 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2012.953
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2012.953
