# colon cancer and colonoscopies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colon-cancer-and-colonoscopies/656858>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 27, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colon-cancer-and-colonoscopies/656858 "2013-04-27T20:55:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colon-cancer-and-colonoscopies/656858/17 "2013-04-29T19:15:24Z")

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> [@KarlGauss](#):
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> [Here is almost the first paper](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3382210/) I hit on for a search on dietary fiber and colon cancer. Note the date, 2012. I can give you more but I’m gonna wait until you cough up something from this century.

It’s funny how you’ve flip-flopped on this issue. Here’s a post of yours from a previous thread:

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8468898&postcount=11](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8468898&postcount=11)

> [@How important is a balanced diet, really?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-important-is-a-balanced-diet-really/400242/11):
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> I’ll go first.
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> While not literally testing a “balanced” diet, **the diet in the following three randomized control trials all included high fibre, low fat, high vegetables, and high fruit** - so approaching, if not identical to, what I think a reasonable person would call “balanced”:
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> - **[a low fat diet (with lots of fibre, veggies, and fruit) doesn’t reduce the development of colon cancer](http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/295/6/643)**
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> - [a low fat diet (with lots of fibre, veggies, and fruit) doesn’t reduce the development of invasive breast cancer](http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/295/6/629)
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> - [a low fat diet (with lots of fibre, veggies, and fruit) doesn’t reduce the development of cardiovascular disease](http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/295/6/655)

So does a “balanced diet” with fruit/vegetable/fiber prevent colon cancer or doesn’t it?

Were you misrepresenting the data back then or are you misrepresenting it now?

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