Associations of artificially sweetened beverage intake with disease recurrence and mortality in stage III colon cancer: Results from CALGB 89803 (Alliance).
Brendan J GuercioSui ZhangDonna NiedzwieckiYanping LiAna BabicVicente Morales-OyarvideLeonard B SaltzRobert J MayerRex B MowatRenaud WhittomAlexander HantelAl BensonDaniel AtienzaMichael MessinoHedy KindlerAlan VenookShuji OginoEmilie S ZoltickMeir StampferKimmie NgKana WuWalter C WillettEdward L GiovannucciJeffrey A MeyerhardtCharles S FuchsPublished in: PloS one (2018)
Higher artificially sweetened beverage consumption may be associated with significantly reduced cancer recurrence and death in patients with stage III colon cancer. This association may be mediated by substitution for sugar-sweetened alternatives. Further studies are needed to confirm these findings.