Men diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer have an increased chance of surviving the disease if they have eaten a diet rich in zinc, researchers said here at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
"Those men with high zinc intake were 74% less likely to die of prostate cancer than those with the lowest zinc intake," Mara S. Meyer, MS, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard School of Public Health, said during a poster presentation (95% CI 0.10 to 0.68, P=0.005).
Researchers also reported a trend indicating that men who consumed high levels of marine omega-3 docosahexaenoic acid were 30% less likely to die of prostate cancer than men who consumed the lowest levels of the fatty acids (95% CI 0.47 to 1.03, P=0.26).
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