Prostate Cancer Prevention

There's no proven prevention strategy for prostate cancer, but healthy lifestyle choices, exercise, and diet may reduce risk and improve your general health.

Lifestyle modifications

Lifestyle modifications are changes you make to your daily habits. Connecting modifiable risk factors like diet, weight, and physical activity with cancer risk can be challenging for researchers. For example, we know that having a high BMI can affect prostate cancer risk in different ways. It’s associated with a reduced risk of low-grade prostate cancer, but can increase your risk of advanced prostate cancer. Researchers are always trying to understand how factors like weight and diet affect your cancer risk. 

We do know that general healthy habits can help prevent cancer and help you maintain your health during and after treatment. This includes prostate cancer. 

Lifestyle factors you can change for your overall health and to help prevent cancer include: 

• Maintaining a healthy weight

• Engaging in regular physical activity

• Eating a healthy diet high in fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and fish

• Limiting or avoiding drinking alcohol