{"id":340,"date":"2008-10-07T16:20:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T23:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2010-03-16T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T19:39:11","slug":"meat-and-dairy-increase-risk-for-prostate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/meat-and-dairy-increase-risk-for-prostate-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat and Dairy Increase Risk for Prostate Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Noticed this article on BBC today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"first\"><strong>Eating meat and dairy products may increase the risk of prostate cancer, research suggests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Such a diet raises levels of a hormone called Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) which promotes cell growth.<br \/>\nA University of Oxford team examined the results of 12 studies, featuring a total of nearly 9,000 men.<br \/>\nThey found men with high blood levels of IGF-1 were up to 40% more likely to develop prostate cancer than those with low levels.<br \/>\nThe study appears in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.<br \/>\nIGF-1 plays a key role in the growth and development of children and adolescents.<br \/>\nIn adults it continues to regulate cell growth and death, but it can also inhibit the death of cells which have come to the end of their natural life cycle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Extent unclear<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lead researcher Dr Andrew Roddam said the degree to which diet influenced IGF-1 levels was unclear.<br \/>\nBut he said levels could be up to 15% higher in people who ate a lot of meat and dairy products.<br \/>\nDr Roddam said: &#8220;There is a need to identify risk factors for prostate cancer, especially those which can be targeted by therapy and\/or lifestyle changes.<br \/>\n&#8220;Now we know this factor is associated with the disease we can start to examine how diet and lifestyle factors can affect its levels and whether changes could reduce a man&#8217;s risk.&#8221;<br \/>\nDr Roddam said raised levels of IGF-1 were likely not only to increase the risk of developing prostate cancer, but also to aid the spread of tumours.<br \/>\nResearch shows that cells fed IGF-1 grow much more quickly.<br \/>\nHowever, Dr Roddam said there was no evidence to suggest that measuring IGF-1 levels could be used to develop a new test to screen for prostate cancer.<br \/>\nEach year in the UK more than 34,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and around 10,000 die of the disease.<br \/>\nDr Lesley Walker, of the charity Cancer Research UK, which funded the study, said: &#8220;While there are established risk factors associated with prostate cancer of age, family history, and ethnicity, there are no clear data on modifiable risk factors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/7655405.stm\"  rel=\"external nofollow\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/7655405.stm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noticed this article on BBC today.\u00a0 Eating meat and dairy products may increase the risk of prostate cancer, research suggests. Such a diet raises levels of a hormone called Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) which promotes cell growth. A University of Oxford team examined the results of 12 studies, featuring a total of nearly 9,000 men. They found men with high blood levels of IGF-1 were up to 40% more likely to develop prostate cancer than those with low levels. The study appears in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. IGF-1 plays a key role in the growth and development of children and adolescents. In adults it continues to regulate cell growth and death, but it can also inhibit the death of cells which have come to the end of their natural life cycle. Extent unclear Lead researcher Dr Andrew Roddam said the degree to which diet influenced IGF-1 levels was unclear. But he said levels could be up to 15% higher in people who ate a lot of meat and dairy products. Dr Roddam said: &#8220;There is a need to identify risk factors for prostate cancer, especially those which can be targeted by therapy and\/or lifestyle changes. &#8220;Now we know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-prostate-cancer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meat and Dairy Increase Risk for Prostate Cancer - HappyCow<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/meat-and-dairy-increase-risk-for-prostate-cancer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meat and Dairy Increase Risk for Prostate Cancer - HappyCow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Noticed this article on BBC today.\u00a0 Eating meat and dairy products may increase the risk of prostate cancer, research suggests. 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