Japanese researches published a study in September 2019 on the effectiveness of eating mushrooms and reduced risk of prostate cancer. In 2019 there were 175,000 new cases of prostate cancer. The treatment for this type of cancer has improved over the last 20 years. The study which started in 2012 stated that certain mushrooms have anticancer, antibacterial and antidiabetic properties.
It also found that extracts of certain mushrooms can slow tumor growth.
The study specifically looked at mushrooms reducing the biomarker for prostate cancer, the PSA ( prostatic specific antigen) It was a large population studied - 36,499 Japanese men from two Japanese cohort studies.
Those participants who ate mushrooms one or two times a week had an 8 % lower relative risk of prostate cancer. Those who ate mushrooms three to four times a week had a 17 %^ lower relative risk. This is a great study. More studies need to be done
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