The link between diet and prostate cancer. (interview with Robert M. Kradjian)(Interview)

From: Nutrition Health Review | Date: March 22, 1995 | Copyright information

Q: What leads you to the conviction that prostate cancer is diet-related?

A: When groups of men living in parts of the world where the intake of fat is low are studied, they have little prostate cancer. As with breast cancer, when migration takes place, the incidence of breast or prostate cancer increases if the new country has a high dietary fat intake. When significant lifestyle changes are studied following migration, intake of dietary fat is the major identifiable factor...

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