Gezonde voeding van levensbelang bij kanker*
Uit een kleine Amerikaanse studie blijkt dat 36% van de mannen bij wie een agressieve vorm van
prostaatkanker werd vastgesteld geen behandeling nodig hebben als ze hun voedingsgewoontes wat aanpassen. Bij 110 deelnemers van de studie was een agressieve vorm van prostaatkanker vastgesteld. Allen veranderden hun voedingsgewoontes en gingen meer bewegen, en vielen daardoor wat af. De veranderingen waren: minder alcohol drinken, minder kant en klare voeding en in het algemeen minder zout en meer vette vis. Het resultaat was dat bij 40 (36%) van de deelnemers verder geen enkele behandeling (operatie, bestraling of chemotherapie) meer nodig was.
Adopting a healthy lifestyle can help cancer patients even after they have been diagnosed with the disease, researchers
believe.
A study found that almost four in ten patients with aggressive prostate cancer did not need planned surgery or radiotherapy after making simple lifestyle changes.
Doctors found that the adjustments slowed down or even halted the progression of their disease.
And they claim that there is no reason that the benefits could not be seen in other types of cancer.
Previous studies have shown that adopting a more healthy lifestyle can help to prevent different types of cancer developing.
Rising obesity rates have been linked to at least six different types of cancer, including breast cancer, the most common form of the disease in women.
Researchers at Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridgeshire decided to test the effects of adopting a healthy lifestyle in 110 men who had been diagnosed with the aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Changes made included cutting down on salt and alcohol, eating more oily fish, losing weight and taking moderate amounts of regular exercise.
Some of the patients were also given vitamin and mineral supplements, which the findings show made no difference to their cancer.
All the patients also took small doses of aspirin, although the researchers say that there was no conclusive evidence that the drug helped patients.
Doctors monitor the progression of prostate cancer using a test for Prostate Specific Antigens (PSA).
These rise as tumours grow, but doctors found that lifestyle changes caused levels to stabilise and even fall for some patients in the trial.
The findings show that 40 of the patients, 36 per cent, did not need further treatment.
Robert Thomas, a consultant oncologist, from Addenbrooke's, who led the study, said: "Because prostate cancer is very slow growing it is possible for us to monitor its progress.
"(The same thing) is hard to evaluate other cancers. It would not be correct to delay chemotherapy or surgery to see whether the effects of a healthy lifestyle would be the same in breast cancer, for example.
"The main benefit of lifestyle changes in other types of cancer would probably be in helping to ensure that the disease did not recur."
Paul Sinclair, from Bedford, who took part in the trial, started drinking more pomegranate juice as one of the adjustments to his lifestyle.
He said that he was surprised in the difference that the changes made to his condition.
He said: "We followed (the disease) with a series of blood tests to monitor the levels, and they started reducing.
"The results I had in April/March this year were nearly normal, really much to my surprise."
Prostate cancer affects more men in Britain than any other form of the disease.
About 35,000 men are diagnosed with the condition every year and a third go on to die from the
disease. (Januari
2009)
Gelet op de kleine aanpassingen in de voeding die al dit enorme resultaat geven is het niet onwaarschijnlijk dat het opvolgen van de voedingsadviezen op deze site het resultaat nog vele malen beter maakt.