Eating a lot of highly processed foods, like packaged snacks and ready meals, might raise your chance of getting pancreatic cancer by almost half, according to some big studies on people.

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Ultra-processed food consumption and cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis

2023 Jun

The study looked at how eating a lot of ultra-processed foods affects cancer risk and found the same 49% higher chance of pancreatic cancer that the claim mentions, so it supports the claim.

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Ultra-processed food consumption and cancer risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2023.03.018

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