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Slice of Life:  Pizza cuts Cancer Risk

ROME - Pizza beats cancer, a study found.
Italian researchers said eating one or more pizzas a week dramatically reduced the incidence of types of cancer.

A study of 8,000 people by a Milan pharmacology center found that regular pizza eaters were 59% less likely to contract cancer of the esophagus, while the risk of developing colon cancer fell by 26%.

"We knew that tomato sauce was protective against certain tumors, but we certainly didn't expect that pizza as a whole would provide such strong protection," researcher Silvano Gallus told La Repubblica newspaper.

A six year Harvard study in 1995 found that foods laden with cooked tomatoes, such as pizza and spaghetti sauce, significantly reduced the risk of prostate cancer.