Prostate Cancer (Nutrition)

Low-Fat Diet Slows Tumor Growth in Animal Studies

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 9th, 1995

A low-fat diet may slow the progression of prostate cancer, according to studies being conducted at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.

In animal studies, mice with induced human prostate cancer tumors had slower disease progression when fed a low-fat diet. These findings were reported in the October 4, 1995, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

It is estimated that worldwide, 30 percent of all men over the age of 50 have some evidence of dormant prostate cancer, yet worldwide rates for clinically evident prostate cancer are highly variable. For example, U.S. rates for prostate cancer are 120 times higher...

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