Prostate cancer is the #1 cancer in men and it’s already been discovered that fish oil is inflammatory. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center24 with an on-line abstract from the Journal of the National published another fish oil failure.
Link between high blood levels of omega 3 fatty acids (fatty fish/fish oil) and increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer. Consumption of fatty fish and fish oil supplements linked to 71 percent higher risk.
The increase in risk for high-grade prostate cancer is 71% greater risk, is important because those tumors are more likely to be fatal. The study also found a 44 percent increase in the risk of low-grade prostate cancer and an overall 43 percent increase in risk for all prostate cancers. What’s significant here is that experts have been able to replicate their findings from 2011 as well as confirmed that marine omega 3 fatty acids plays a great part in prostate cancer occurrence.
The difference in blood concentrations of omega 3 fatty acids from fish oil between the lowest and highest risk groups was about 2.5 percentage points (3.2 percent vs. 5.7 percent). The percentage is somewhat larger than the effect of eating salmon twice a week.
Higher linoleic acid (Parent omega 6) was associated with reduced risks of low-grade and total prostate cancer.
In conclusion, this study confirms previous reports of increased prostate cancer risk among men with high blood concentrations of LCω-3PUFA from fish oil. The consistency of these findings suggests that these fatty acids are involved in prostate tumorigenesis.
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