DIETARY FACTORS AND RISK OF PROSTATE-CANCER IN POLAND - RESULTS OF CASE-CONTROL STUDY

Authors
PAWLEGA J RACHTAN J DYBA T
Citation
J. Pawlega et al., DIETARY FACTORS AND RISK OF PROSTATE-CANCER IN POLAND - RESULTS OF CASE-CONTROL STUDY, Neoplasma, 43(1), 1996, pp. 61-63
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Oncology
Journal title
Neoplasma → ACNP
ISSN journal
00282685
Volume
43
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
61 - 63
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-2685(1996)43:1<61:DFAROP>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
The relationship between cigarette smoking, vodka drinking and consump tion of 44 food items typical of the Polish diet were analyzed in a ca se-control study performed in Cracow, Poland, among 76 cases of prosta te cancer and 152 controls. Cigarette smoking and drinking of vodka we re not significantly influencing the prostate cancer. The men who ate smoked or fried fish or liver at least once per week had almost half o f the risk of prostate cancer of the men who ate those food rarely.