A Prospective Case Control Study of Dietary Habits of Head and Neck Cancer Patients at a Comprehensive Care Cancer Centre in Rural India

Author: Kaushal P. Jani, Rajesh Kantharia, Shehnaz Kantharia, Deepti K. Jani and Sunita Goswami

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Abstract

Unhealthy diet is one of the major risk factors of cancer. Major challenge in cancer research is to find out dietary habits that can significantly reduce the cancer risk, therefore, this clinical study was carried out to test the hypothesis that poor dietary habits are significantly associated with incidence of head and neck cancer (HNC). Various studies conducted till date to find out association between dietary factors and risk of HNC showed controversial results, which indicates questionable role of dietary habits to influence occurrence of HNC. Therefore, in the current prospective study, data of dietary habits of HNC patients were compared with data of their control cohorts at a comprehensive care cancer centre in rural India. Our data suggested that consumption of plant-based foods like fruits reduces overall risk of HNC. Variations in diet, dietary and cooking habits as well as quality of food may be a key factor for differences in findings in various studies.

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Dietary, HNC, cancer, fruits, vegetable, cancer

Conclusion

Despite availability of huge literature in support of beneficial effect of fruits, vegetables, fish and animal products in prevention of various types of cancers, our data indicates that only plant-based diet showed significant benefit against HNC. Daily consumption of fruits, may decrease overall risk, even in tobacco consumers.

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Jani, K. P., Kantharia, R., Kantharia, S., Goswami, S. (2023). A Prospective Case Control Study of Dietary Habits of Head and Neck Cancer Patients at a Comprehensive Care Cancer Centre in Rural India. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(3): 493-497.