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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / August 2007FDA Not Convinced re: Lycopene & Tomatos vs. PCa
Or vs. other cancers. See: "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's evidence-based review for qualified health claims: tomatoes, lycopene, and cancer." At http://tinyurl.com/yodn5k Regards, Steve J >Or vs. other cancers. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >Steve J Link is dead. Try this: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/76583.php Last paragraph: "Although it may be premature to espouse increased consumption of tomato sauce or lycopene for prostate cancer prevention, this area of research remains promising". Just  SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com On August 22, Just replied to me: > Link is dead. > > Try this: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/76583.php Try this: http://tinyurl.com/23hq6w I'd much rather get my information from the primary source than from some reporter who may or may not be competent. Frex, Just's quotation from the above article is not what the researchers said, it is what the reporter says they said. Or maybe an editorial comment. Another way to find the abstract is to go to the Pub Med site at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=PubMed and search on the abstract number, which is 17623802. Regards, Steve J >On August 22, Just replied to me: > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >Steve J Hi Steve! On the top of the Pub Med abstract (of which you supplied a link) you will see that they quote two comments to the abstract: Comment in: J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007 Jul 18;99(14):1059. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007 Jul 18;99(14):1060-2. The second comment quoted points to an article published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute by Edward Giovannucci (Affiliations of author: Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA; Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA). Link for this article: http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/99/14/1060 The article in Medical News Today (my original link) seems not to misrepresent what Edward Giovannucci wrote: "Given the complexities of studying the relationship between tomato or lycopene intake and prostate cancer risk, both in terms of the exposures and the outcome, one should not be too surprised that no firm conclusion of benefit would be made in the FDA review. The review was not designed to account for these issues, and the data addressing these issues are sparse. Although it may be premature to espouse increased consumption of tomato sauce or lycopene for prostate cancer prevention, this area of research remains promising". Regarding the abstract 17623802 from Pub Med, this is very succinct (unfortunately you have to pay for the full article, also published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute). Just SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com On August 22, Just replied to me: > On the top of the Pub Med abstract (of which you supplied a link) you > will see that they quote two comments to the abstract: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA). Link for this article: > http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/99/14/1060 Yes. I've read Giovannucci's article. Very interesting. And it does *not* support the proposition that lycopene et cetera will be helpful in our battle. Well, boys & girls, this is one more example of the unfortunate fact that in this business hardly anyone agrees with anyone. My choice is to bumble along, gobbling tomato products in my spaghetti and other such products, and not worry about it. I just want to let folks know that the latest fashionable dietary magic might not be so magic, after all. Regards, Steve J |
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