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Different dietary factors can affect colorectal cancer incidence. However, the effect of increased levels of dietary calcium on neoplasms is unclear. The present study was designed to examine the effect of a low calcium supplement on experimental colon carcinogenesis induced by parenteral administration of dimethylhydrazine (DMH). One hundred and twenty 10-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into five groups of equal sex distribution. The 10 rats in group A (control group) received no treatment; the 30 rats in group B (DMH group) were injected subcutaneously with 18 weekly doses of 21 mg/kg DMH; the 20 rats in group C (EDTA control group) received EDTA solution only; the 30 rats in group D (calcium group) received calcium at 3.2 g/l by adding calcium lactate to the drinking water from the start until the conclusion of the experiment; and the 30 rats in group E (DMH + calcium group) received oral calcium supplements at the same dose as the rats in group D (calcium group) and the same DMH injections as the rats in group B (DMH group). The rats were sacrificed at 25-34 weeks. In group E, we observed a significant diminution in the number of tumours (P = 0.01); an increase in the number of tumour-free animals (P = 0.006); a change in tumour location towards the distal colon (P < 0.025); more adenomas (P = 0.02); and a diminution of adenocarcinomas and mucinous carcinomas, although this was not significant. We conclude that a low dietary calcium supplement in rats inhibits colon cancer carcinogenesis induced by DMH, and changes tumour location towards the distal colon.
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PMID:Calcium inhibits colon carcinogenesis in an experimental model in the rat. 1002 19

High intake of red meat or processed meat is associated with increased risk of colon cancer. In contrast, consumption of white meat (chicken) is not associated with risk and might even reduce the occurrence of colorectal cancer. We speculated that a diet containing beef or bacon would increase and a diet containing chicken would decrease colon carcinogenesis in rats. One hundred female Fischer 344 rats were given a single injection of azoxymethane (20 mg/kg i.p.), then randomized to 10 different AIN-76-based diets. Five diets were adjusted to 14% fat and 23% protein and five other diets to 28% fat and 40% protein. Fat and protein were supplied by 1) lard and casein, 2) olive oil and casein, 3) beef, 4) chicken with skin, and 5) bacon. Meat diets contained 30% or 60% freeze-dried fried meat. The diets were given ad libitum for 100 days, then colon tumor promotion was assessed by the multiplicity of aberrant crypt foci [number of crypts per aberrant crypt focus (ACF)]. The ACF multiplicity was nearly the same in all groups, except bacon-fed rats, with no effect of fat and protein level or source (p = 0.7 between 8 groups by analysis of variance). In contrast, compared with lard- and casein-fed controls, the ACF multiplicity was reduced by 12% in rats fed a diet with 30% bacon and by 20% in rats fed a diet with 60% bacon (p < 0.001). The water intake was higher in bacon-fed rats than in controls (p < 0.0001). The concentrations of iron and bile acids in fecal water and total fatty acids in feces changed with diet, but there was no correlation between these concentrations and the ACF multiplicity. Thus the hypothesis that colonic iron, bile acids, or total fatty acids can promote colon tumors is not supported by this study. The results suggest that, in rats, beef does not promote the growth of ACF and chicken does not protect against colon carcinogenesis. A bacon-based diet appears to protect against carcinogenesis, perhaps because bacon contains 5% NaCl and increased the rats' water intake.
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PMID:Effect of meat (beef, chicken, and bacon) on rat colon carcinogenesis. 1005 Feb 67

We conducted a population-based case-control study to evaluate the relationship between cancer of the colon-rectum (n = 326), lung (n = 252), brain (n = 37), and pancreas (n = 37), and exposure to tetrachloroethylene (PCE) from public drinking water. Subjects were exposed to PCE when it leached from the vinyl lining of drinking-water distribution pipes. Relative delivered dose of PCE was estimated using a model that took into account residential location, years of residence, water flow, and pipe characteristics. Adjusted odds ratios (ORs) for lung cancer were moderately elevated among subjects whose exposure level was above the 90th percentile whether or not a latent period was assumed [ORs and 95% confidence intervals (CIs), 3.7 (1.0-11.7), 3.3 (0.6-13.4), 6.2 (1.1-31.6), and 19.3 (2.5-141.7) for 0, 5, 7, and 9 years of latency, respectively]. The adjusted ORs for colon-rectum cancer were modestly elevated among ever-exposed subjects as more years of latency were assumed [OR and CI, 1.7 (0.8-3.8) and 2.0 (0.6-5.8) for 11 and 13 years of latency, respectively]. These elevated ORs stemmed mainly from associations with rectal cancer. Adjusted ORs for rectal cancer among ever-exposed subjects were more elevated [OR and CI, 2.6 (0. 8-6.7) and 3.1 (0.7-10.9) for 11 and 13 years of latency, respectively] than were corresponding estimates for colon cancer [OR and CI, 1.3 (0.5-3.5) and 1.5 (0.3-5.8) for 11 and 13 years of latency, respectively]. These results provide evidence for an association between PCE-contaminated public drinking water and cancer of the lung and, possibly, cancer of the colon-rectum.
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PMID:Tetrachloroethylene-contaminated drinking water in Massachusetts and the risk of colon-rectum, lung, and other cancers. 1009 Jul 4

Although diet and its constituents have been studied extensively as risk factors for colon cancer, much less is known about how specific types of fluid influence colon cancer risk. In this study, we explored associations between colon cancer and total fluids, water and methylxanthine-containing beverages such as coffee, tea and cola; data were obtained from 1,993 incident cases of colon cancer and 2,410 population-based controls living in California, Utah and Minnesota. Our primary objective was to determine the influence on associations of amount consumed, confounding and effect modification. We observed few important differences between colon cancer and fluid consumption for all subjects combined. Among men, low levels of coffee intake were associated with an increased risk of colon cancer relative to non-consumers of coffee (OR 1.32, 95% CI 1.02-1.67), while at high levels of consumption, an inverse association was observed (OR 0.81, 95% CI 0.58-1.12). The observed associations were only slightly influenced by consumption of water or other potential confounding factors, but changing the referent group to those consuming one cup of coffee per day or less resulted in a stronger association and a more significant inverse linear trend (OR 0.71, 95% CI 0.53-0.96). The associations with coffee and caffeine- and methylxanthine-containing beverages were strongest for proximal tumors in men. High levels of water intake, however, were protective for distal tumors (OR for men 0.68, 95% CI 0.49-0.96). Assessment of the impact of smoking on associations between colon cancer and coffee showed a significant interaction between smoking and coffee for both men and women.
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PMID:Intake of fluids and methylxanthine-containing beverages: association with colon cancer. 1018 19

Bile acids are important in the etiology of colorectal cancer. Bile acids induce apoptosis in colonic goblet cells at concentrations comparable to those found in fecal water after high-fat meals. Preliminary evidence indicated that cells of the normal-appearing (nontumorous) portion of the colon epithelium of colon cancer patients are more resistant to bile salt-induced apoptosis than are cells from normal individuals. In the present study, 68 patients were examined, and biopsies were taken at 20 cm from the anal verge, cecum, and descending colon. The patients included 17 individuals with a history of colorectal cancer, 37 individuals with adenomas, and 14 individuals who were neoplasia free. The mean bile salt-induced apoptotic index among normal individuals was 57.6 +/- 3.47 (SE), which differed significantly (P < 0.05) from the mean value of 36.41 +/- 3.12 in individuals with a history of colon cancer. The correlation between independent observers was 0.89 (P < 0.001), indicating good interobserver reliability. Components of variance comparing interindividual versus intraindividual sources of variation suggested that site-to-site variability, both between regions of the colon and for adjacent biopsies, was larger than the interpatient variability for individuals with a history of neoplasia. Therefore, there was "patchiness" of the susceptibility of regions of the colon to bile acid-induced apoptosis in individuals with a history of neoplasia (a patchy field effect). There was no obvious correlation of low-apoptotic index regions with regions in which previous neoplasias had been found and removed. On the other hand, for normal, i.e., neoplasia-free, individuals, there was relatively less intraindividual variation compared to interindividual variation. Our assay shows an association between resistance to bile acid-induced apoptosis, measured at 20 cm from the anal verge, and colon cancer risk. Thus, this assay may prove useful as a biomarker of colon cancer risk.
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PMID:A bile acid-induced apoptosis assay for colon cancer risk and associated quality control studies. 1034 43

New methods for the resection of liver parenchyma was developed in order to simplify liver surgery. The object of our study was to test a method using the water dissector, a rather new equipment. Eight patients, four men end four women, have been operated, from March to September 1997, using the water dissector. Age of the patients ranged from 42 to 83 years (mean age 67 years). Indication for surgery was liver metastasis from colon cancer (6 patients), and gallbladder cancer (2 patients). 1 right lobectomy, 1 left side segmentectomy, 2 V and IV segments resection, 1 unitectomy of the VII segment and 2 III and IV segment resections was performed. In the first four patients we used the Pringle manoeuvre (clamping of the liver stalk), while we did not do it in the last four so we could compare both the operation time and the loss of blood with or without this manoeuvre. One patient died of ARDS in the seventh post-operative day, another patient, who underwent a right lobectomy, developed a biliary fistula which healed in the 10 degrees postoperative day. All the seven surviving patients was in good health, with normal liver ultrasonography when checked on the 31/12/1997. Our results show that the water dissector offers the possibility to isolate vascular stalks very easily, both with a posterior ilar approach and with an intraparenchymal approach, making possible a very accurate haemostasis, in such minimizing blood and biliary losses. This method allows the performing of oncologically correct dissections and in the meanwhile the saving of as much healthy parenchyma as possible.
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PMID:[Liver resection with the water dissector; preliminary experience of 8 cases]. 1036 14

The guanylin family of bioactive peptides consists of three endogenous peptides, including guanylin, uroguanylin and lymphoguanylin, and one exogenous peptide toxin produced by enteric bacteria. These small cysteine-rich peptides activate cell-surface receptors, which have intrinsic guanylate cyclase activity, thus modulating cellular function via the intracellular second messenger, cyclic GMP. Membrane guanylate cyclase-C is an intestinal receptor for guanylin and uroguanylin that is responsible for stimulation of Cl- and HCO3- secretion into the intestinal lumen. Guanylin and uroguanylin are produced within the intestinal mucosa to serve in a paracrine mechanism for regulation of intestinal fluid and electrolyte secretion. Enteric bacteria secrete peptide toxin mimics of uroguanylin and guanylin that activate the intestinal receptors in an uncontrolled fashion to produce secretory diarrhea. Opossum kidney guanylate cyclase is a key receptor in the kidney that may be responsible for the diuretic and natriuretic actions of uroguanylin in vivo. Uroguanylin serves in an endocrine axis linking the intestine and kidney where its natriuretic and diuretic actions contribute to the maintenance of Na+ balance following oral ingestion of NaCl. Lymphoguanylin is highly expressed in the kidney and myocardium where this unique peptide may act locally to regulate cyclic GMP levels in target cells. Lymphoguanylin is also produced in cells of the lymphoid-immune system where other physiological functions may be influenced by intracellular cyclic GMP. Observations of nature are providing insights into cellular mechanisms involving guanylin peptides in intestinal diseases such as colon cancer and diarrhea and in chronic renal diseases or cardiac disorders such as congestive heart failure where guanylin and/or uroguanylin levels in the circulation and/or urine are pathologically elevated. Guanylin peptides are clearly involved in the regulation of salt and water homeostasis, but new findings indicate that these novel peptides have diverse physiological roles in addition to those previously documented for control of intestinal and renal function.
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PMID:Guanylin regulatory peptides: structures, biological activities mediated by cyclic GMP and pathobiology. 1039 5

A novel 3'-desphenyl-3'-cyclopropyl analogue of docetaxel was synthesized from 10-deacetyl-baccatin III. The cytotoxicity of the new taxoid was evaluated against several human tumor cell lines, and it had ca. 20 times stronger activity against human colon cancer cell lines (WiDr and Colon 320) than that of docetaxel. This taxoid was converted to its water-soluble prodrugs that have 2'-substituted amino acid derivatives with spacer. The prodrugs had good solubility in saline and showed more potent antitumor activity against B 16 melanoma in mice than that of docetaxel.
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PMID:Synthesis of taxoids 5. Synthesis and evaluation of novel water-soluble prodrugs of a 3'-desphenyl-3'-cyclopropyl analogue of docetaxel. 1039 92

The age-adjusted mortality rates of colorectal cancer have been rising in Taiwan over the past 2 decades, and colorectal cancer is now the third leading cause of cancer mortality in the country. We conducted a hospital-based case-control study to clarify the nature of the association between physical activity, water intake and colorectal-cancer risk in Taiwan. A total of 163 subjects (aged 33-80 years) with histologically confirmed primary colorectal cancer and 163 hospital controls were enrolled during 1992. Dietary intake, physical activity and other lifestyle activities were assessed using a comprehensive food-frequency and lifestyle-activity questionnaire. Adjusted odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated using conditional logistic-regression analysis. A strong inverse dose-response relation between increased water intake and rectal cancer was found among men after adjustment for other risk factors (p for trend = 0.0005). The OR for rectal cancer among men in the highest tertile of water intake was 0.08 (95% CI, 0.02-0.35) compared with that among men in the lowest tertile (OR = 1). Similar but not significant trends were seen among women (p = 0.29). The OR for colon cancer among men with active leisure-time physical activity was 0.19 (95% CI, 0.05-0.77) times that among sedentary men (p for trend = 0.03). However, physical activity was not associated with colon-cancer risk among women (p = 0.48). No differences in the amount of water intake were found related to level of physical activity. These findings add to the evidence that leisure-time activity may reduce colon-cancer risk, not only in high-risk but also in low-risk populations, and support the potential beneficial effect of increased water intake in reducing colorectal-cancer risk.
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PMID:Physical activity, water intake and risk of colorectal cancer in Taiwan: a hospital-based case-control study. 1040 59

The intake of a Western diet with a high amount of red meat is associated with a high risk for colon cancer. We hypothesize that heme, the iron carrier of red meat, is involved in diet-induced colonic epithelial damage, resulting in increased epithelial proliferation. Rats were fed purified control diets, or purified diets supplemented with 1.3 micromol/g of hemin (ferriheme), protoporphyrin IX, ferric citrate, or bilirubin (n = 8/group) for 14 days. Feces were collected for biochemical analyses. Fecal cytotoxicity was determined from the degree of lysis of erythrocytes by fecal water. Colonic epithelial proliferation was measured in vivo using [3H]thymidine incorporation into colonic mucosa. The colonic epithelial proliferation in heme-fed rats was significantly increased compared to control rats [55.2 +/- 5.8 versus 32.6 +/- 6.3 dpm/microg DNA (mean +/- SE); P < 0.05]. The fecal water of the heme group was highly cytotoxic compared to the controls (90 +/- 2% versus 2 +/- 1%; P < 0.001), although the concentrations of cytotoxic bile acids and fatty acids were significantly lower. Organic iron was significantly increased compared to the controls (257 +/- 26 versus 80 +/- 21, microM; P < 0.001). Spectrophotometric analyses suggest that this organic iron is heme-associated. Thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances were greatly increased in the fecal water of heme-fed rats compared to the controls (177 +/- 12 versus 59 +/- 7 microM; P < 0.05). Heme itself could not account for the increased cytotoxicity because the addition of heme to the fecal water of the control group, which was equimolar to the organic iron content of the fecal water of the heme group, did not influence the cytotoxicity. Hence, an additional heme-induced cytotoxic factor is involved, which may be modulated by the generation of luminal-reactive oxygen species. Protoporphyrin IX, ferric citrate, and bilirubin did not increase proliferation and cytotoxicity. In conclusion, dietary heme leads to the formation of an unknown, highly cytotoxic factor in the colonic lumen. This suggests that, in heme-fed rats, colonic mucosa is damaged by the intestinal contents. This results in a compensatory hyperproliferation of the epithelium, which supposedly increases the risk for colon cancer.
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PMID:Red meat and colon cancer: the cytotoxic and hyperproliferative effects of dietary heme. 1058 88


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