Adherence to Mediterranean diet and prostate cancer risk in Sicily: population-based case–control study

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer and the sixth leading cause of death from cancer worldwide. Countries following a Mediterranean-type dietary pattern, has been reported to have lower PCa incidence and mortality compared with other European regions. A population-based case–control study has been conducted from January 2015 to December 2016 in a single institution of the municipality of Catania, southern Italy....