government recommends adults eat at least 8 ounces of seafood per week. People should really wait for more studies,” she said. “My recommendation would be: Don’t change your fish intake habit now. “Therefore, I would recommend caution in translating these data to one’s diet.”Ĭho also advised people to stick with their current seafood menu. “The investigators unfortunately did not account for many established risk factors, such as number of moles, hair color - red hair is an important one - number of past burns or sun-protective behaviors, which really impair our ability to interpret this data,” said Friedman, professor and chair of dermatology at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
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The “unique” correlation would require much more study to even suggest eating more fish might cause the higher melanoma risk, he noted. Adam Friedman, who was not involved in the new research, called the study “interesting, but not game changing as of yet.” Story continues Should you change your diet?ĭermatologist Dr. “There should be more studies to address this topic.” And this study was not designed in a way that we could evaluate which specific components of fish would be responsible for the association,” she noted. “But at this point, we don’t really know which contaminant may be responsible.
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A previous study found higher blood mercury levels were associated with a higher prevalence of non-melanoma skin cancer.
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It’s well established that arsenic is a skin carcinogen, Cho said.
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That may be due to contaminants in fish, such as polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins, arsenic and mercury, the authors wrote. When they were grouped by how much seafood they ate, it turned out the group that consumed the most fish had a 22% higher risk of malignant melanoma compared to the group that ate the least fish, the study found. For the study, published in Cancer Causes & Control, Cho and her colleagues examined the fish eating habits of 491,367 participants in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study - a large cohort of Americans 50 to 71 years old who described their diet in a questionnaire in the mid-1990s.Īfter they were followed over 15 years, the researchers looked at the diagnoses of melanoma - the deadliest form of skin cancer - among the participants.