Study suggests modest impact of diet on cancer risk
April 9th, 2010 Posted in alternative treatments, prostate cancer risksEvaluation of data from an 8-year-long European trial has suggested that a diet high in fruits and vegetables has only modest impact on people’s risk for cancer. However, a very small inverse association between intake of total fruits and vegetables and cancer risk was observed.
The bottom line to this study is that it wasn’t well enough designed to have much hope of proving the hypothesis it set out to test. Authors think that if urologists want to be able to understand the associations (if any) between diet and cancer in general (let alone prostate cancer in particular), they are going to have to commit to much more sophisticated studies, probably starting in much younger people and following them for many more years. For the moment, authors further state that given the small magnitude of the observed associations, caution should be applied in their interpretation.
The study findings are published in the Journal of the Natonal Cancer Institute