Yamagiwa Y, et al. - Researchers gauged the relationship between fruit and vegetable intake and pancreatic cancer risk as part of the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study. They included 90,185 participants who responded to a medical and lifestyle questionnaire during 1995-1998. They noted an inverse relationship with total fruit intake and positive associations with total vegetable intake and pancreatic cancer risk. The positive association for total vegetable intake was statistically significant in ever smokers and statistically non-significant in never smokers. Findings suggested a probable association of vegetable intake with increased risk partly because of the influence of smoking on the vegetable intake.