Aspartame Consumption in Relation to Childhood Brain Tumor Risk: Results From a Case-Control Study
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- 16 July 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- Vol. 89 (14) , 1072-1074
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/89.14.1072
Abstract
Brain cancer incidence rates in the United States have been increasing in both adults ( 1 ) and children ( 2 ). The possibility that aspartame, a widely ingested artificial sweetener, may be a cause of brain cancer in humans was suggested in a recent report by Olney et al. ( 3 ). From a descriptive analysis of national cancer data, they noted increased brain cancer incidence rates in the United States that coincided with the introduction of aspartame into food stuffs in the early 1980s.Keywords
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