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by nraynaud 2649 days ago
Participants were selected by having a cancer. Have you read the article? it's about growth rate.
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According to the article, "In this type of study, cases of people who have a particular outcome - in this case, prostate cancer - are matched against a random group of people who do not develop the condition."

That sounds to me that in fact they were looking at cancer-free people as well.

Right. My point is that less health conscious people would have un-diagnosed cancer. This would make it appear that more health conscious people (higher omega-3) have higher rates of cancer than baseline.