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International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:879-880
© International Epidemiological Association 2003

Letter to the Editor

Can dietary fatty acids affect colon cancer risk? Reply to Leitzmann and Giovannucci

Andre Nkondjock1,4, Bryna Shatenstein2, Patrick Maisonneuve3 and Parviz Ghadirian4

1 McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
2 Centre de Recherche, Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
3 Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
4 Epidemiology Research Unit, Research Centre, CHUM-Hôtel-Dieu, Montreal, QC, Canada. E-mail: parviz.ghadirian@umontreal.ca

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Sirs—In their commentary entitled ‘Can dietary fatty acids affect colon cancer risk?’1 Drs Leitzmann and Giovannuccihave critically evaluated our recently published paper on the association between specific fatty acids and the risk of colorectal cancer,2 and raised some important points. They have clearly justified that diet is not the only source of many fatty . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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