Olive Oil and Reduced Cancer Risk

• Health Effects of Various Edible Vegetable Oil: An Umbrella Review.

  • 2024-07-23
  • Systematic Review · n = 48
  • Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) 15(9)
  • • Phooi Tee Voon
    • Choon Ming Ng
    • Yen Teng Ng
    • Yen Jun Wong
    • Sia Yen Yap
    • Siew Lian Leong
    • Xiou Shuang Yong
    • Shaun Wen Huey Lee

  • PubMed: 39053603
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.advnut.2024.100276

  8 Insights on

  • Reduced Cancer Risk

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  Low certainty evidence showed olive oil consumption reduced risk of breast, digestive, and other cancers.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

• [Oil and life: The impact of olive oil on human health. A review of the evidence supporting the recommendation for extra virgin olive oil consumption].

  • 2025-11
  • Review
  • Semergen 51(8)
  • • J M Rubio López

  • PubMed: 40929788
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.semerg.2025.102582

  11 Insights on

  • Reduced Cancer Risk

  • Low evidence

  Additionally, EVOO contributes to cancer prevention, lowering the risk of specific types like breast and colon cancer.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes