Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Foods Impact Prostate Cancer Progression

Eating tomatoes and fish, keeping a healthy weight and avoiding meats cooked at high temperatures may help men alleviate prostate cancer, U.S. researchers say.

"What we’re trying to determine is if men with low grade prostate cancer can manage their disease with these kinds of nutritional interventions and delay or avoid the need for more aggressive treatments, all of which carry a risk of side effects that can adversely affect physical function and quality of life," June Chan of the University of California San Francisco said in a statement.

Read full story in The National Prostate Cancer Coalition

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