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Diets high in fish and seafood and prostate cancer risk

A research team at Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, examined the relation of fish and seafood n-3 fatty acid intakes with prostate cancer incidence and mortality.

The team conducted a prospective cohort study among 20,167 men and found that fish intake was unrelated to prostate cancer incidence. Survival analysis among the men diagnosed with prostate cancer revealed that those consuming fish al least 5 times/week had an almost equal lower risk of prostate cancer death than had men consuming fish less than once weekly.A similar association was found between seafood n-3 fatty acid intake and prostate cancer mortality

The study results suggest that fish intake is unrelated to prostate cancer incidence but may improve prostate cancer survival.