The emerging role of obesity, diet and lipid metabolism in prostate cancer. (February 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ferro, Matteo; Terracciano, Daniela; Buonerba, Carlo; Lucarelli, Giuseppe; Bottero, Danilo; Perdonà, Sisto; Autorino, Riccardo; Serino, Alessandro; Cantiello, Francesco; Damiano, Rocco; Andras, Iulia; De Placido, Sabino; Di Lorenzo, Giuseppe; Battaglia, Michele; Jereczek-Fossa, Barbara A; Mirone, Vincenzo; De Cobelli, Ottavio
• Is Part Of: Future oncology. Volume 13:Number 3(2017)
• Page Start: 285
• Page End: 293
• Publication Date: 2017-02
• Subjects: diet -- obesity -- urologic/prostate; Oncology -- Periodicals; 616.99405
• DOI: 10.2217/fon-2016-0217
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1479-6694

Abstract

Obesity is associated with an increased risk of a number of serious medical conditions, including cancer. As far as prostate cancer is concerned, obesity is associated with an increased risk of high-grade tumors, which is possibly related to lower androgen levels. Diet may also affect prostate cancer risk since countries with a higher dietary fat intake also present higher prostate cancer mortality rates. Interestingly, prostate cancer is associated with a number of metabolic alterations that may provide valuable diagnostic and therapeutic targets. This review explores the available clinical as well as biological evidence supporting the relationship between obesity, diet, alteration in metabolic pathways and prostate cancer.