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The April issue of the Journal of the Canadian Urologic Association offers the interested reader access to the full texts of a small number of topical articles. None of them could be considered “game changing” in terms of current prostate cancer management today … but certainly thought-stimulating.
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There’s an interesting article by Gabe Canales (the founder of the Blue Cure Foundation) in The Huffington Post today. Gabe sets out to make the point that we have made many times before … that if we really want to prevent much of the prostate cancer diagnosed in the developed world each year, we’d better [...]
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An new article on line in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences or PNAS has further extended our understanding of the genetic and inheritable factors that may predispose individual patients to higher risk for clinically significant and aggressive forms of prostate cancer
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There has been a great deal of media coverage in the past 24 hours about a study published in The Lancet Oncology. This study (a meta-analysis of numerous prior studies) suggests that a daily dose of aspirin may reduce risk for a variety of cancers.
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As the annual Defense appropriations cycle starts once again, The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink encourages all you US-based prostate cancer patients and other US-based voters to e-mail your Congressman or Congresswoman and ask them to support prostate cancer research funding through the “Dear Colleague” letter being circulated by Representative Pete King in the House.
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A study published recently by researchers based at the University of Washington reported correlation between circumcision and risk for prostate cancer … but it is important to note that (a) they were not claiming to have proven a cause and effect relationship and (b) the supposed increase in risk of 15 percent was an increase [...]
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A new paper just published in BioEssays puts forward the hypothesis that a gene known as the SRY gene, which directs development of “maleness,” may have specific impact on behavioral and on clinical aspects of being male (e.g., aggressiveness; the so-called “flight or fight” response to stress; even some male-based neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease).
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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
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