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EHA 2025 | Prevention of cancer: a plant-based diet to slow the progression of MGUS to myeloma
Sunil Gupta, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, MBA, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, London, UK, emphasizes the importance of both treatment and prevention in cancer management, highlighting the need for preventative measures such as healthy eating and weight management. Dr Gupta notes that a plant-based diet has been shown to slow the progression of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) to myeloma. This interview took place at the 30th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) in Milan, Italy.
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Yes, I think it’s very important that, yes, cure and the treatment is important for the cure of disease but at the same time we need to concentrate also on prevention of diseases. So we have to think about a lot of preventative medicine in terms of cancer. We know that smoking is the main cause of lung cancer and many other causes which are environmental causes which can cause cancer, so I’m very active in those lines in terms of healthy eating, keeping a healthy weight and things like that...
Yes, I think it’s very important that, yes, cure and the treatment is important for the cure of disease but at the same time we need to concentrate also on prevention of diseases. So we have to think about a lot of preventative medicine in terms of cancer. We know that smoking is the main cause of lung cancer and many other causes which are environmental causes which can cause cancer, so I’m very active in those lines in terms of healthy eating, keeping a healthy weight and things like that. So, new research has come up which was published last year in ASH about the plant-based medicine and the slower progression of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, which is MGUS. So if you are actually eating a more plant-based diet, then your chance of progression of MGUS to myeloma is much slower as compared to if you’re not actually eating a plant-based diet. So I think it’s important that what we eat and how much we eat is going to have a telling effect on cancer generation and its progression.
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