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A new report from a Scottish research team offers evidence that high plasma cholesterol levels are associated with an increased risk for a diagnosis of high-grade prostate cancer.
Filed under: Diagnosis, Prevention, Risk | Tagged: cholesterol, grade, high, risk | 4 Comments »
Case-control studies based on data from self-reported questionnaires of people’s diets are rarely the most accurate predictors of reality. However, for what it is worth, a new study has reported that higher levels of calcium in a man’s normal diet may be associated with a lower risk for diagnosis of prostate cancer.
Filed under: Prevention | Tagged: calcium, diet, risk | 4 Comments »
The idea that exercise and physicial fitness may be associated with a reduction in risk of disease progression in men with relatively low-risk prostate cancer is hardly new, but
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Prevention, Uncategorized | Tagged: activity, exercise, low risk, preventiuon, progression | 5 Comments »
A new review of the available literature has concluded that, despite the fact that “prostate cancer is an ideal target for prevention,” there is in fact “no suitable evidence to recommend using any specific nutritional supplement or diet to prevent prostate cancer” at the present time.
Filed under: Diagnosis, Prevention, Risk | Tagged: 5-ARI, 5α-reductase inhibitor, diet, nutrition, Prevention, supplement | 1 Comment »
According to a media release we received yesterday, a new paper in the British Journal of Nutrition suggests that “walnuts may help to prevent prostate cancer risk.”
Filed under: Diagnosis, Prevention, Risk | Tagged: Prevention, risk, walnut | 1 Comment »
According to a Reuters report on December 30, “Older Icelandic men who remember chugging a lot of milk in their teens are three times as likely to be diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer as more-moderate milk drinkers.”
Filed under: Diagnosis, Prevention, Risk | Tagged: Iceland, milk, risk | Leave a Comment »
Many organizations develop guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer (prostate cancer included). And the differences between these guidelines can be striking and controversial
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Prevention | Tagged: American Cancer Society, guidelines | 2 Comments »
Newly reported research from a team at the Centenary Institute in Sydney, Australia, has suggested a very different way in which it may be possible to significantly delay or manage the progression of prostate cancer.
Filed under: Drugs in development, Management, Prevention | Tagged: blockade, leucine, Management, Prevention | 2 Comments »
The SELECT study has previously shown that treatment with selenium did not prevent prostate cancer in your average “guy in the street.” However, what about men with a prior diagnosis of high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HG-PIN)?
Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Prevention, Risk | Tagged: HG-PIN, prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, selenium, trial | Leave a Comment »
Our friends at The Daily Mail in the UK have been spreading a story that men who eat 2.5 eggs or more a week have an 81 per cent increase in their risk for lethal prostate cancer compared to men who do not.
Filed under: Diagnosis, Prevention, Risk | Tagged: Daily Mail, eggs, Harvard | 25 Comments »
Saw palmetto extract (made from the berries of the saw palmetto plant, Serenoa repens) is widely used by many men to prevent or treat benign enlargement of the prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia). While it is not known to have any effect on prostate cancer, the use of saw palmetto has long been a topic of [...]
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Prevention | Tagged: benign prostatic hyperplasia, BPH, extract, saw palmetto | 4 Comments »
According to a media release issued by Amgen earlier today, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved denosumab (marketed as both Prolia® and Xgeva®) as a treatment to increase bone mass in in men with non-metastatic prostate cancer who are already being treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and who are at high [...]
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Prevention, Treatment | Tagged: approval, denosumab, fracture, Prevention | Leave a Comment »
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.
Filed under: Diagnosis, Prevention, Risk | Tagged: brother, Diagnosis, family, Prevention, risk, supplement, vitamin | 1 Comment »
The full text of a new article on the potential of whole ginger extract (WGE) in the prevention and treatment of of prostate cancer has recently been published in the British Journal of Nutrition.
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Prevention, Treatment, Uncategorized | Tagged: extract, ginger, Prevention, Treatment, WGE | 3 Comments »
The current issue of Urologic Clinics of North America, edited by Mark Moyad, MD, of the University of Michigan Medical Center, includes a series of review articles dealing with complementary and alternative care in the prevention and management of urologic disorders in general and prostate cancer in particular.
Filed under: Prevention, Management, Living with Prostate Cancer | Tagged: complementary, alternative, medicine | Leave a Comment »
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