Lack of efficacy of blueberry in nutritional prevention of azoxymethane-initiated cancers of rat small intestine and colon

Table 4 Incidence of AOM-induced tumors at 17 weeks post-AOM *

* Incidence is percentage of tumor-bearing animals; actual number of animals with each tumor is shown in parentheses; gender effects were calculated from combined diet groups; six rectal tumors, two mammary tubular adenomas, one biliary cystadenoma, two cecal tumors, one stomach tumor, one spleen tumor, and a number of nodules representing focal areas of lymphoid hyperplasia [38] also were found; all were excluded from calculations of small intestine and colon tumor indices.
** SI: small intestine (almost all tumors were found in duodenum; with the exception of two in the jejunum).
^{a, b} indicate a tendency for a difference (P = 0.081); NS: P > 0.1

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