Oral Oncology
Volume 40, Issue 9 , Pages 925-931, October 2004

Fat food habitual intake and risk of oral cancer

  • Tatiana Natasha Toporcov

      Affiliations

    • School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, 2227 Av Prof Lineu Prestes, SP 05508-900 São Paulo, Brazil
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  • José Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes

      Affiliations

    • School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, 2227 Av Prof Lineu Prestes, SP 05508-900 São Paulo, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +55-11-3091-7877; fax: +55-11-3091-7874
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  • Marcos Roberto Tavares

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, 455 Av Dr Arnaldo SP 01246-903 São Paulo, Brazil

Received 7 April 2004; accepted 19 April 2004.

Abstract 

This case-control study evaluated fat food habitual intake in the context of the Brazilian diet as a risk factor for oral cancer. A food frequency questionnaire was applied to 70 patients with oral carcinoma and an equal number of controls treated in the same hospital for acute non-neoplastic conditions. Participants were paired for age, gender and smoking status, and matched by frequency for the use of dental prostheses and length of smoking history. Conditional logistic regression for multivariate analysis indicated as risk factors the habitual intake of foods rich in animal and saturated fat: pork meat, soup, cheese, bacon and fried food. The multivariate model also indicated the protective effect of non-cooked butter or margarine, probably the most effective vehicle for vitamin A ingestion in the Brazilian diet. These findings suggest that there is a non-negligible scope for the prevention of oral cancer through the improvement of diet.

Keywords:  Oral cancer, Risk factors, Case-control studies, Diet, Fat foods

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PII: S1368-8375(04)00100-9

doi:10.1016/j.oraloncology.2004.04.007

Oral Oncology
Volume 40, Issue 9 , Pages 925-931, October 2004

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