The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
There's a lot of models of colon cancer in in murine models mice and rats that look at calcium deficient models in order to generate tumors and adenomas and so calcium at least in the animal models does seem to be protective at the level of the gut against pre-cancerous lesions
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there are many studies with colon cancer that show that when calcium replete diets there's a lower incidence of colon cancer animal models of colon cancer often must make the mice or rats calcium deficient to induce colon cancers
getting some calcium in your diet has a lot of benefits there's a ton of literature in the GI cancer space to suggest that calcium intake is associated with lower rates of colon issues