Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Changing dietary patterns and cancer prevention: alpha-linolenic acid health risks and benefits

  • Editorial Commentary
  • Published:
Cancer Causes & Control Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Giovannucci E, Rimm EB, Stampfer MJ, Colditz GA, Ascherio A, Chute CC, et al. (1993) A prospective study of dietary fat and risk of prostate cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 85: 1571–1579.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Le Marchand L, Kolonel LN, Wilkens LR, Myers BC, Hirohata T (1994) Animal fat consumption and prostate cancer: a prospective study in Hawaii. Epidemiology 5: 276–282.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Kolonel L, Nomura A, Cooney R (1999) Dietary fat and prostate cancer: current status. J Natl Cancer Inst. 91: 414–428.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Gann PH, Hennekens CH, Sacks FM, Grodstein F, Giovannucci E, Stampfer MJ (1994) A prospective study of plasma fatty acids and risk of prostate cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 86: 281–286.

    Google Scholar 

  5. De Stefani E, Deneo-Pellegrini H, Boffetta P, Ronco A, Mendilaharsu M (2000) Alpha-linolenic acid and risk of prostate cancer: a case-control study in Uraguay. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 9: 335–338.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Ramon J, Bou R, Romea S, Alkiza M, Jaca M, Ribes J, et al. (2000) Dietary fat intake and prostate cancer risk: a case-control study in Spain. Cancer Causes Control 11: 679–685.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Busch L, Gunter V, Mentele T, Tachikawa M, Tanaka K (1994) Socializing nature: technoscience and the transformation of rapeseed into canola. Crop Science 34: 607–614.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Giovannucci E, Ascherio A, Rimm EB, Stampfer MJ, Colditz GA, Willett WC (1995) Intake of carotenoids and retinol in relation to risk of prostate cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 87: 1767–1776.

    Google Scholar 

  9. Giovannucci E (1999) Tomatoes, tomato-based products, lycopene, and cancer: review of the epidemiologic evidence. J Natl Cancer Inst. 91: 317–331.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Hu F, Stampfer M, Manson J, Rimm E, Wolk A, Colditz G, et al. (1999) Dietary intake of alpha-linolenic acid and risk of fatal ischemic heart disease among women. Am J Clin Nutr. 69: 890–897.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Ascherio A, Rimm E, Giovannucci E, Spiegelman D, Stampfer M, Willett W (1996) Dietary fat and risk of coronary heart disease in men: cohort follow-up study in the United States. BMJ 313: 84–90.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Ascherio A, Willett W (1997) Health effects of trans fatty acids. Am J Clin Nutr. 66 (Suppl 4): 1006s–1010s.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA

    Graham A. Colditz (Professor of Medicine Channing Laboratory)

Authors
  1. Graham A. Colditz
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Colditz, G.A. Changing dietary patterns and cancer prevention: alpha-linolenic acid health risks and benefits. Cancer Causes Control 11, 677–678 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008982121761

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008982121761

Search

Navigation