Dr. Jamie Garfield comments on study linking ultraprocessed foods to lung cancer risk

Dr. Jamie Garfield comments on study linking ultraprocessed foods to lung cancer risk
Jamie Garfield Professor, Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University — Temple University Hospital
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Jamie Garfield, MD, a professor of thoracic medicine and surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, offered her perspective to Medscape regarding a recent study published in Thorax. The study found that people who consumed higher amounts of ultraprocessed foods had a significantly increased risk of developing lung cancer over 12 years compared to those who ate fewer ultraprocessed foods. Dr. Garfield did not participate in the research.



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