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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(6):489-491; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.6.489
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 6, 489-491, March 17, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

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Dietary Fat, Calories, and Prostate Cancer Risk

Maarten C. Bosland, Ingrid Oakley-Girvan, Alice S. Whittemore

Affiliations of authors: M. C. Bosland, Departments of Environmental Medicine and Urology, New York University School of Medicine, New York; I. Oakley-Girvan, A. S. Whittemore, Department of Health Research and Policy, Division of Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA.

Correspondence to: Alice S. Whittemore, Ph.D., Department of Health Research and Policy, Division of Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Redwood Bldg., Rm. T204, Stanford, CA 94305-5405 (e-mail: alicesw@leland.stanford.edu).

Prostate cancer is a major source of morbidity and mortality. The disease accounts for about a third of all U.S. male cancers, with an estimated 179 300 new cases and 37 000 deaths in 1999 (1). There is urgent need for a firm scientific foundation from which to launch randomized trials of dietary modification to prevent the incidence and progression of prostate cancer. Ideally, such a foundation should rest on strong and consistent evidence from epidemiologic observations and carefully designed animal experiments. Thus, the article presented by Mukherjee et al. (2) in this issue of the Journal, evaluating the effects in rodents of restricting intakes of dietary fat and total energy, is of considerable interest.

The speculation that cancer risk may be related to dietary intakes of fat or total energy has a long history. Reports of reduced growth in tumors transplanted into energy-restricted rodents date . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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