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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Nurs. 2009;32(2):107–117. doi: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e3181982d4c

Table 2.

Dietary habits before and after diagnosis among prostate cancer survivors (n=30)

Whites
(n=20)
African
Americans
(n=10)
All
participants
(n=30)
N (%)
Were eating healthfully before diagnosis 15 (75%) 3 (30%) 18 (60%)
Were eating healthfully before diagnosis and have maintained the healthy dietary habits 15 (75%) 3 (30%) 18 (60%)
Were not eating healthfully before diagnosis 5 (25%) 7 (70%) 12 (40%)
Were not eating healthfully before diagnosis, but have improved since diagnosis 1 (20%) 6 (86%) 7 (58%)
  Change connected to diagnosis 1 (100%) 6 (100%) 7 (100%)
  Change maintained since diagnosis 1 (100%) 5 (83%) 6 (100%)
Were not eating healthfully before diagnosis and have not improved post-diagnosis 3 1 4 (33)
Did not provide any information on diet 1 0 1
Total number of men who were eating healthfully at the time of the interview 16 (80%) 9 (90%) 25 (83%)