People who eat cheese do not have lower rates of death from cancer compared to those who eat less cheese.
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Cheese consumption is not associated with reduced cancer mortality.
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Observational6 good-quality studies link this claim to the outcome, but causation is not established.
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6 studies reviewedSupporting (6)
Systematic Review With Meta-AnalysisMeta-analysis2023
The study looked at lots of people over time and found that eating cheese doesn't seem to lower the chance of dying from cancer.
Cohort StudyHuman2017
The study looked at what people ate and who died of cancer over 11 years, and found that eating cheese didn’t make people any less likely to die from cancer.
Dairy Consumption, Lactase Persistence, and Mortality Risk in a Cohort From Southern Sweden
Cohort StudyHuman2021
People who ate more cheese were less likely to die overall, which suggests cheese probably doesn’t make people more likely to die from cancer — and might even help.
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That doesn't mean it's settled — it just means no study has tested the opposite.
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Eating cheese does not change how fast cancer cells grow or how the body removes substances that cause cancer, so it does not lower the chance of dying from cancer.
Score breakdown, mechanism chain, raw evidence, ideal studies needed & 6 supporting studies
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