{"doi":"10.1002/cncr.35172","title":"Plant‐based diet associated with better quality of life in prostate cancer survivors","abstract":"BACKGROUND: Plant-based diets have many health benefits, including a lower risk of fatal prostate cancer, and greater environmental sustainability. However, less is known regarding the impact of plant-based diets on quality of life among individuals diagnosed with prostate cancer. The authors' objective was to examine the relationship between plant-based diet indices postdiagnosis with quality of life. METHODS: This prospective cohort study included 3505 participants in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (1986-2016) with nonmetastatic prostate cancer. Food-frequency questionnaires were used to calculate overall and healthful plant-based diet indices. Quality-of-life scores were calculated using the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite. Generalized estimating equations were used to examine associations over time between plant-based diet indices and quality-of-life domains (sexual functioning, urinary irritation/obstruction, urinary incontinence, bowel functioning, hormonal/vitality), adjusted for demographics, oncologic history, body mass index, caloric intake, health-related behaviors, and comorbidities. RESULTS: The median age at prostate cancer diagnosis was 68 years; 48% of patients underwent radical prostatectomy, and 35% received radiation as primary therapy. The median time from diagnosis/treatment to first the quality-of-life questionnaire was 7.0 years. A higher plant-based diet index was associated with better scores for sexual function, urinary irritation/obstruction, urinary incontinence, and hormonal/vitality. Consuming more healthful plant-based foods was also associated with better sexual and bowel function, as well as urinary incontinence and hormonal/vitality scores in the age-adjusted analysis, but not in the multivariable analysis. CONCLUSIONS: This prospective study provides supportive evidence that greater consumption of healthful plant-based foods is associated with modestly higher scores in quality-of-life domains among patients with prostate cancer.","journal":"Cancer","year":2024,"id":424491,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":21,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9528,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1220957,"name":"Qi Hua","orcid":"0000-0002-5115-2149","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":338911,"name":"Scott R. Bauer","orcid":"0000-0003-4908-1924","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":84389,"name":"Stacey A. Kenfield","orcid":"0000-0002-1585-7352","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":105166,"name":"Alicia K. Morgans","orcid":"0000-0002-6563-4587","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":70072,"name":"June M. Chan","orcid":"0000-0002-7620-569X","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":332144,"name":"Erin L. Van Blarigan","orcid":"0000-0001-5079-3385","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":898304,"name":"Alaina H. Shreves","orcid":"0000-0002-0127-4391","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":104569,"name":"Lorelei A. Mucci","orcid":"0000-0002-2551-4927","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":364977,"name":"Stacy Loeb","orcid":"0000-0003-3933-9207","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":35,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:58:07.191194Z","pmid":"38348508","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}