Oct 28, 2005

More Evidence For The Protective Effect Of Vegetables In Lung Cancer

Now there is ever more evidence for the protective effect of vegetables for lung cancer. A new study suggests that people who have genetic susceptibility to lung cancer may be able to cut down their risk of developing lung cancer by eating vegetables from the cabbage family.

Several previous studies have suggested that cruciferous vegetables like cabbage, broccoli and sprouts, protected against lung cancer. However, these previous studies were not large enough draw any definite conclusion, the authors of the new research said.


"We found protective effects with at least weekly consumption of cruciferous vegetables," said Paul Brennan, lead author of a research letter that appeared in the latest issue of The Lancet. Brennan is head of the Genetic Epidemiology Group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France.

The protective effect of cruciferous vegetables is related to their rich content of isothiocyanates, which have been demonstrated to have a chemopreventive effect against lung cancer.

This results are from a large study consisting of 2,141 people with lung cancer, comparing them with 2,168 healthy individuals in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Russia, where consumption of these vegetables has traditionally been high.

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