Elevated cholesterol levels and risk for high-grade prostate cancer

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.

Can high levels of dietary calcium lower risk for prostate cancer?

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.

Vigorous exercise may prevent progression of low-risk prostate cancer

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

Still “no sufficient evidence” to support any widespread prostate cancer prevention strategy

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.

The walnuts are back in vogue (at least with mice)

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.”

Out with the old … In with the new …

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.”

ACS rolls out new process for developing cancer guidelines

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

Is leucine blockade an important new approach to prostate cancer management?

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.

Selenium in treatment of men with HG-PIN to prevent prostate cancer

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)?

Eggs, prostate cancer, and the Daily Mail

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.

Saw palmetto extract does not shrink prostate size (redux)

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 [...]

FDA expands approval of denosumab in men with advanced prostate cancer

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 [...]

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.

Whole ginger extract in prostate cancer prevention and treatment

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.

Complementary and alternative medicine and prostate cancer care

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.

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