Diet stymies cancer of upper-dig. tract

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This is an interesting study from Europe. They found that

vegetables and " fibre " (not fiber, you non-Frenchies), and good ol'

fashioned " clean living " seemed to improve the outcome in

individuals with upper digestive tract cancer.

I notice that the people that actually work with disease in a

clinical setting always seem to find stronger benefits with health

behaviors than the number-crunching statisticians seem to do,

sitting in their " splendid isolation " of aloofness and algebra.

Int J Cancer. 2005 Jun 28; [Epub ahead of print] Related Articles,

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Lifestyle habits as prognostic factors in survival of laryngeal and

hypopharyngeal cancer: A multicentric European study.

International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.

Little information is available on the role of tobacco, alcohol and

diet in the survival of upper aero digestive cancers. Our study

analysed the survival of 931 laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer

patients, enrolled in a population based case-control study

conducted at 5 centres in southeast Europe during 1979-1982. Age at

the time of diagnosis and site of origin of tumour were observed to

be predictors of the survival. Cigarette smoking, and to a limited

extent alcohol drinking, before the diagnosis of tumour seem to

influence the overall survival whereas high intakes of vegetables

and vitamin C were observed to favourably affect the prognosis. For

mortality from upper aerodigestive cancer protective effects of high

intakes of vegetables, fibres and vitamin C were observed. Our

results support the hypothesis that there is a role for dietary

intervention to improve survival of laryngeal and hypopharyngeal

cancer patients. © 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc. - PMID: 15986425

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