However, there was a significant trend over increasing quartiles of iron intake for cancer of the proximal colon (odds ratio for extreme quartiles 3.29; 95% CI: 0.7–14.6; P for trend=0.04).
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A cohort study of dietary iron and heme iron intake and risk of colorectal cancer in women.
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The authors noted an increasing trend in risk of colon cancer in men only with increasing levels of the heme/chlorophyll ratio.