The traditional diet of Greece and cancer.

[R.B.]

HI Jackie07,

Many thanks for your very kind words. I have been posting on this board for quite a few years now, and am honoured that you thought I was female, but am a man with a particular interest in this devastating cancer.

Hi Andrea,

I had no idea you had gone through a misdiagnosis, your thoughts are always inspirational.

Doctors do their very best but the body is very complex, and sometimes as you say, we just have to go with our gut analysis and try and answer our concerns

[Jackie07]

O - sorry; I thought R. B. stood for 'Roseanne Barr'.

[Andrea Barnett Budin]

ABB here. Hi RB. Jackie, you rock!

Just hoping to bump this up -- for an array of reasons.

The whole link, of course, and -- the last 3 posts. I agree, some valuable info here "NOT ABOUT DIET BUT CRUCIAL TO OUR SURVVAL!

[R.B.]

Clearly fish has to be a better option than fish oils as fish contain minerals, vitamin D, iodine etc, but there are lots of reasons for taking a couple of grams total combined of EPA plus DHA in the form of fish oil.

The paper in arriving at its conclusion of no benefits with fish oil as against whole fish, caveats "However, use of fish oil supplements in this cohort of breast cancer survivors was low (generally <5%) and therefore we were not well powered to examine this exposure."

Full free article on line

Marine Fatty Acid Intake Is Associated with Breast Cancer Prognosis1,2

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...9/?tool=pubmed

EPA and DHA, long-chain (n-3) PUFA largely obtained from fish, inhibit the proliferation of breast cancer cells in vitro and reduce the initiation and progression of breast tumors in laboratory animals. Our purpose in this analysis was to examine whether intake of these marine fatty acids (EPA and DHA) were associated with prognosis in a cohort of women who had been diagnosed and treated for early stage breast cancer (n = 3,081). Median follow-up was 7.3 y. Dietary intake was assessed using 24-h recalls (~4 recalls per dietary assessment obtained at 7 time points over 6 y). Survival models with time-dependent covariates were used to examine the association of repeated measures of dietary intake of EPA and DHA from food (i.e., marine sources) and supplements with disease-free survival and overall survival. Women with higher intakes of EPA and DHA from food had an approximate 25% reduced risk of additional breast cancer events [tertile 2: HR = 0.74 (95% CI = 0.58–0.94); tertile 3: HR = 0.72 (95% CI = 0.57–0.90)] compared with the lowest tertile of intake. Women with higher intakes of EPA and DHA from food had a dose-dependent reduced risk of all-cause mortality [tertile 2: HR = 0.75 (95% CI = 0.55–1.04); tertile 3: HR = 0.59 (95% CI = 0.43–0.82)]. EPA and DHA intake from fish oil supplements was not associated with breast cancer outcomes. The investigation indicates that marine fatty acids from food are associated with reduced risk of additional breast cancer events and all-cause mortality.