More good reasons to stop smoking if you are at risk for prostate cancer

New data from a research team at Stanford University in California have further confirmed the effect of “heavy” smoking on the diagnosis of men with prostate cancer.

JX-594 and prostate cancer — some follow-up

There has been considerable interest in yesterday’s news item about JX-594 and its potential applicability to the treatment of prostate cancer, so we have done a little more homework.

But does it make a blind bit of difference?

In a newly published paper in the journal Integrative Cancer Therapies, the authors report high use of vitamins and supplements among undiagnosed men with a brother who has previously been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Might JX-594 have significant clinical activity in prostate cancer?

Data just published in the journal Nature suggest that an engineered oncolytic virus called JX-594 selectively targeted and destroyed cancer cells in patients without significantly affecting healthy tissue.

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