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# Eating fried foods linked to prostate cancer
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/fried_foods_prostate_cancer_0128131008/
- Published: 2013-01-28T23:07:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:46:46.000Z
- Description: Men eating deep-fried foods such as French fries, fried chicken, fried fish or doughnuts at least once a week were 30 to 37 percent more likely to develop prostate cancer than men eating them less than monthly, in a study of 1,549 cases and 1,492 age-matched controls.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Food, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

By David Liu PHD

Monday Jan 28, 2013 (foodconsumer.org) -- A new study published in the journal The Prostate suggests that eating deep fried foods like French fries fried chicken may increase risk of prostate cancer, particularly the aggressive form of prostate cancer.

The study found men eating deep fried foods like French fries, fried chicken, fried fish and doughnuts once a week were 30 to 37% more likely to develop prostate cancer, compared with those who ate less than once a month.

The study led by Dr. Janet Stanford from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and colleagues also found eating deep fried foods was also associated with increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer.

These associations were already adjusted for other possible confounders including age, race, family history of prostate cancer, body mass index, and PSA screening.

Early studies have also associated the consumption of deep fried foods with cancers of the breast, lung, pancreas, head and neck, and esophagus. Few studies have examined the association between fried food consumption and increased risk of prostate cancer.

Fried foods contain many cancer-causing chemicals, some derived from oil such as aldehydes and benzo\[a\]pyrene in frying oils, some reaction products from starchy food such as acrylamide in fried foods, and some from fried meat such as heterocyclic amines. Maillard reaction products or advanced glycation endproducts may also cause cancer because they are associated with cancer-causing inflammation and oxidative stress.

The study was based on data from 1,549 men diagnosed with prostate cancer 1,492 age-matched controls who participated in two population-based case-control studies.

Prostate cancer is expected to be diagnosed more than 230,000 men in the United States each year and the disease and its complications kill about 30,000 men annually in the U.S, according to the United States National Institute of Cancer.