Prostate Cancer Growth Slowed by Fish Oil Supplements
- The rate at which prostate cancer grows can be slowed by a low-fat diet and fish oil supplements, research suggests.
- U.S. researchers made the discovery after testing prostate tissue samples taken from men with the disease. They found that just four to six weeks on the diet was enough to reduce the growth of cancer cells. The same effect was not seen in men who remained on a regular diet with no fish oil supplements.
- “The lower the rate of proliferation, the lesser the chances that the cancer will spread outside the prostate, where it is much harder to treat.”
- The low-fat diet relied on fat to provide just 15 percent of calories. Men on the diet also took five grams of fish oil per day in five capsules.
- “Preclinical studies suggest that lowering dietary omega-6 fatty acids from corn oil and increasing omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil decreases the risk of prostate cancer development and progression,” the scientists wrote in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.
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