MORE ON DIET AND OVARIAN CANCER

                                Linda in Cuzco, Peru

Can eating right “immunize” you from ovarian cancer?  Emphatically, no!  OVCA is rooted in genetic problems.  About 1/6 of all sufferers have a genetic defect that they were born with, most often a malfunction of one or other of the BRCA genes.  Having this defect does not guarantee contracting  OVCA, but it greatly enhances the probability.  The remaining cases are the result of errors made during cell reproduction.  Bad luck, that is.  Such “copy errors” are extraordinarily rare, and in most cases harmless – but in some cases may be devastating.  Again, bad luck!

So what, then, are we to make of the study (below) that purports to show that diet can influence the likelihood of contracting OVCA?  Well, danged if I know.  Maybe people who eat “right” also tend to have stronger or more effective immune systems.  In that case the (very slight) correlation between OVCA resistance found does not entail cause-and-effect.  That’s my guess.

But, what the heck:  eat right, anyway.  It can’t hurt.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/ovarian-cancer-and-diet