European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition

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CITATION: (This is the APA reference for your selected article).
The following case control study conducted by Rosato et al., (2017) was selected
due to its relevance to the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and
Nutrition (EPIC) cohort study.
Rosato, V., Tavani, A., Negri, E., Serraino, D., Montella, M., Decarli, A., ... &
Ferraroni, M. (2017). Processed meat and colorectal cancer risk: a pooled
analysis of three Italian case-control studies.
Nutrition and cancer,
69(5), 732-
738. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01635581.2017.1310259.
SEARCH STRATEGY: (Describe how you identified you selected article).
For the purpose of acquiring a relevant academic, scholarly and peer reviewed
article, an electronic search strategy was conducted with the help of relevant
keywords like ‘colorectal cancer’, ‘red meat’, ‘EPIC study’ and ‘processed meat’
across databases such as Google Scholar, Medline, PubMed, BioMed and CINAHL.
The reason for using these databases was due to the extensive repertoire of peer
reviewed articles they possessed in the fields of health sciences, biology, nursing
and medicine. The search revealed a total number of 3550 articles of which
approximately 250 articles based on their abstract alone (Bramer, de Jonge,
Rethlefsen, Mast& Kleijnen, 2018). Full text articles which were relevant to the
keywords and were published since the last 5 years (2016 to 2020) were
selected for screening to ensure the inclusion of the most recent, evidence based
research. Of these, articles which did not refer to the EPIC study and addressed
associations other than that between diet and colorectal cancer risk (such as
meat consumption and antibody levels) were excluded. The concerned study by
Rosato et al., (2017) was selected since its research methodology, approach and
findings were targeted for the purpose of enhancing evidence from the EPIC
study (McGowan et al., 2016).
RELATIONSHIP TO KEY STUDY: (Describe how your selected article is related
to one of the key studies)
The EPIC Study by Rivoli et al., (2002), aimed to assess the relationship between
meat and fish consumption and the incidence of colorectal cancer across 478,
040 adult women and men. The findings of the study demonstrated a statistically
significant relationship between the risk of colorectal cancer and the
consumption of pork and meat. The case control study by Rosato et al., (2017),
demonstrated relevance to the EPIC study by assessing the relationship between
the risk of colorectal cancer and consumption of processed meat across Italy in
the form of a pooled analysis of three case control experiments. The study aimed
to expound upon the existing evidence obtained the EPIC study in Europe and
indeed demonstrated a statistically significant relationship between the
consumption of processed meat and risk of proximal colon cancer.
STUDY SUMMARY: (In your own words, describe at a minimum, the rationale,
aims, methods, findings and implications of the selected article).