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Diet - Eggs or no eggs?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 5 12:04pm | Replies (124)

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UCSF has a pamphlet on dietary guidelines for patients with prostate cancer. What they say about eggs:

"While more research is necessary, egg consumption during adulthood (pre-diagnosis) may increase risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer.55 Current research related to post-diagnosis egg intake and prostate cancer progression is limited. Research suggests that the choline in eggs may be the component that increases cancer risk; choline isconcentrated in the egg yolk."

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@climateguy That would be based on the 2012 Richman study, which got a lot of attention and is cited all over journalism and the Internet because it had a simple, media-friendly message (eggs==prostate cancer). However, other studies have failed to confirm or replicate its findings relating eggs and prostate cancer, and it looks more and more like a statistical outlier (the problem is that you can't unring the bell after a study like this goes out, and it becomes "common knowledge" that everyone cites or cites people citing, etc). Example:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233736516_No_Association_between_Egg_Intake_and_Prostate_Cancer_Risk_A_Meta-analysis
One follow-up study found a possible association with 5+ eggs/week and prostate cancer mortality, but it had low confidence and couldn't rule out a statistical artifact.

So really, except for the echo chamber around that one unreproducible.2012 study from Richman et al., there's little/no indication that eggs are a concern for prostate cancer, but if you want to be extra safe, eat fewer than 5 eggs/week, just in case the association in that meta-analysis published by Cambridge wasn't just a statistical artifact.

@climateguy “”egg consumption during adulthood may increase risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer”. Even IF true, it’s a little late to be doling out that advice, don’t you think?
I mean, tell me that when I’m 10 yrs old - not 60 or 70 and starting my cancer treatment!😂