<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Marsh's book "Coeliac Disease" (1992), Chapter 5, summarizes what was known of the connection between cancer and celiac at that time. I'm trying to understand Table 5.7 showing the increased probability for getting cancer on "normal", "reduced gluten" and "strict gluten free" diets. Two questions for someone familiar with such details --probably e-mail for now to follow-up and, if appropriate, we can summarize to the list later. 1. Table 5.7, based on a 1989 article in "Gut" by Holmes et al, has only 15 cases of cancer. Have these numbers changed or is better data available? 2. (3 - .46) excess cancers were found in the 108 following the strict diet for an average of (7.5 +11) years. However does this give a risk of cancer of 1.2% per person year? The 10.7% risk per person year for the "normal" diet looks much too l large in the same way. Kemp Randolph Long Island [log in to unmask]