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Karen Knudsen: What if your grocery list could help lower your cancer risk?

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Jan 19, 2025, 14:08

Karen Knudsen: What if your grocery list could help lower your cancer risk?

Karen Knudsen, Executive Strategic Advisor and Immediate Past CEO of the American Cancer Society (ACS), shared on LinkedIn:

“What if your grocery list could help lower your cancer risk?

A powerful new study (by an exceptional research team) dove into the link between diet and the risk of 11 different cancer types. Some of their findings are easily actionable.

One standout finding?

Milk lovers, rejoice!

Milk consumption was strongly associated with a reduced risk of bowel cancer. And coffee drinkers, you’re in luck too—coffee was linked to a lower risk of liver cancer and basal cell carcinoma of the skin.

The takeaway?

Choices we make in the kitchen can play a meaningful role in reducing cancer risk. Kudos to Papadimitriou et al. for this important work.

Dive into the details here.”

Karen Knudsen

Karen E. Knudsen is the Executive Strategic Advisor and Immediate Past CEO of the American Cancer Society (ACS). Prior to joining ACS, Dr. Knudsen served as executive vice president of Oncology Services and enterprise director for Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health. She also served as president for the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) and on the board of directors of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

She serves on the board of advisors for the National Cancer Institute, on 12 external advisory boards for NCI-designated cancer centers and on Exai Bio. She is an active member of several committees with the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO), in addition to serving on other academic and for-profit advisory boards.