ovarian cancer

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Topic summary contributed by volunteer(s): Aaron

Foods that appear to be protective against ovarian cancer include: soy foods, tea, apples, cranberries, Indian gooseberries, sweet potatoes, and carrots. As an epithelial cancer, sometimes prevention and treatment are the same thing. Foods thought to increase ovarian cancer risk include: smoking, acrylamide, dairy products, and meat. A 3% increase in meat intake may increase bladder cancer by 15%. This may be due to foreign proteins from animals such as Neu5G which can accumulate in the cancer cells, including ovarian tissue. Women at risk for ovarian cancer might also consider limiting milk consumption, especially milk from pregnant cows that is particularly high in estrogens, as it contains many endogenous sex hormones that may disrupt the body’s natural cycle. Beta-carotene is also an important antioxidant found in high concentrations in the cervical region that may inhibit ovarian cancer.

All Videos for Ovarian Cancer

The Pros & Cons of Mammograms

Fact Boxes can quantify benefits and harms in a clear and accessible format.

Talcum Powder & Fibroids

What role does diet and baby powder play in the development of fibroids and ovarian cancer?

How to Treat Endometriosis with Seaweed

Five cents worth of seaweed a day may dramatically improve a major cause of disability and compromised quality of life among women.

Donating Blood to Prevent Cancer?

Prioritizing plant-based sources of iron may be more effective than giving blood at reducing the risk of potentially “ferrotoxic” (iron-related) diseases such as cancer and diabetes.

Plants with Aspirin Aspirations

Should the active ingredient in aspirin be considered an essential vitamin?

Who Shouldn’t Eat Soy?

How can soy foods have it both ways—pro-estrogenic effects in some organs (protecting bones and reducing hot flash symptoms), but anti-estrogenic effects in others (protecting against breast and endometrial cancer)?

Do Vitamin D Supplements Reduce the Risk of Dying from Cancer?

Sun exposure is associated with lower rates of 15 different cancers and improved cancer survival. What happened when vitamin D supplements were put to the test?

Food as Medicine: Preventing & Treating the Most Dreaded Diseases with Diet

Dr. Greger has scoured the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this new presentation based on the latest in cutting edge research exploring the role diet may play in preventing, arresting, and even reversing some of our most feared causes of death and disability.

Why Do Vegan Women Have 5x Fewer Twins?

The hormones naturally found in foods of animal origin may help explain why women who eat conventional diets are five times more likely to give birth to twins than those eating plant-based diets.

Cancer Risk from French Fries

The association between cancer and the consumption of deep-fried foods may be due to carcinogens formed at high temperatures in animal foods (heterocyclic amines and polycyclic hydrocarbons) and plant foods (acrylamide).

Starving Cancer with Methionine Restriction

Methionine restriction—best achieved through a plant-based diet—may prove to have a major impact on patients with cancer because, unlike normal tissues, many human tumors require the amino acid methionine to grow.

Cranberries vs. Cancer

Drug companies and supplement manufacturers have yet to isolate the components of cranberries that suppress cancer cell growth.