Exploring the Relationship Between Garlic Intake and the Risk of Getting Different Types of Cancer
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Garlic intake; cancer; linear regression; multiple types of cancer.Abstract
Whether the correlation exists between the risk of getting cancer and garlic intake is a mystery. On one hand, the media advertise that garlic could lower the opportunity of getting cancer, but on the other hand, no serious proof or studies are given. In order to quantitatively demonstrate the authenticity, a meta-analysis is applied grounded upon previous works for exploring the relationship between garlic and cancer. Five different types of cancers are considered in this work, including gastric, colon, prostate, breast, and lung cancer. The collected dataset is analyzed by the linear probing model for evaluating the previous results measured by risk ratio (RR) or odds ratio (OR). Then the averaged correlations between garlic intake and cancer of different types are calculated and further visualized for comparison. The results show that no major correlation is identified between garlic intake and the opportunities of suffering from all kinds of cancer. Moreover, the degree of correlation between different types of cancer can have a discrepancy to some extent.
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