egg consuption and the prostate

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Egg Consumption Sharply Increases Prostate Cancer Risk

In a recent study published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research, scientists from the University of California, San Francisco, discovered that eggs may increase men's risk of developing the more lethal form of prostate cancer.*Using dietary data from 27,607 men who were followed from 1994 to 2008 who had no cancer at the start of the study, the scientists sought to find a correlation between egg consumption and prostate cancer. To analyze the risk, they compared the number of observed cancer events (199) with the total number of person-years (306,715) in the study. They found that men who ate 2.5 eggs or more a week had an 81% higher risk of developing lethal prostate cancer compared to men who ate fewer than 0.5 eggs a week on average. This is not the first study to associate egg consumption with increased cancer risk.
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* Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2011 Sep 19.

[xamo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close xamo]

does that involve whole eggs or only whites?

[dday39 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dday39]

This is not the first study to associate egg consumption with increased cancer risk.

is this the first study between egg consuption and prostate cancer risk?

I'm sure plenty of healthy men eat more than 2.5 eggs per day and haven't been diagnosed or died of prostate cancer (let alone weekly)

[ds222 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close ds222]

if you believe all these studies, breathing causes cancer.....all these studies have to say something or else they lose their grants