Professor Robert Thomas

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The Food Programme · Could Food Do More in Cancer Care and Prevention? · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

There is a lot you can do.

Your cancer could still progress, but it could still progress on mainstream treatments as well.

But you can improve your side effects, reduce your chronic risks, and your chance of being cured will significantly improve.

This is hard fact.

And the trials we've been doing more recently show

are showing that.

Unfortunately, they are being noticed, but maybe their influence is a bit slower than we'd want.

We started the first major double-blind randomised trial, which are the most robust medical trials, back in 2012.

I'm looking at different elements of food for prostate cancer, looking at different exercise strategies.

And more recently, we looked at dietary strategies during COVID and diabetes.

The last big trial we've done, which we've just published, is looking at progression rates in men in prostate cancer and things like measurements of whole body inflammation, which actually was published not only in a cancer journal, but in a longevity journal.

Because all the things we deal with with diet aren't just helping one thing, they're helping many things.

So you can do a trial looking at, say, the rate of progression of prostate cancer, but at the same time, when you're improving the diet and gut health, it's helping them with their overall well-being, their fatigue, their

their strength.

So it's almost an all-win situation concentrating on diet.

And it is the most cost-efficient way to save money for the NHS and health providers.

Well, I specialize in prostate cancer and so I have a lot of men.

And the nice thing about prostate cancer is about 55 to 60 percent have a lower grade, less aggressive type, which you can observe.

So in that period of observation, you can do dietary experiments, which we've done.

2013 we looked at various foods based on smaller studies, things like pomegranate extract, green tea, turmeric, broccoli and cruciferous vegetables.

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