Diet: How Diet Influences Cancer Risk

Diet is a double edged sword. Improper diet increases the risk of
cancer but a proper, well balanced diet reduces the cancer risk.

Diet is one of the most important lifestyle factors and has been
estimated to account for up to 80% of cancers of the large bowel,
breast, and prostate. Diet affects the risk of many other cancers,
including cancers of the lung, prostate, stomach, esophagus and
pancreas.

Prostate Cancer:
High consumption of meat, especially red meat, substantially
increases the risk of prostate cancer.