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.

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.

Low fat diet + fish oil lowers risk for prostate cancer cell proliferation

Data from a prospective, randomized, Phase II clinical trial have shown that men diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer can decrease their risk for prostate cancer cell proliferation through use of a low-fat diet and fish oil capsules.

Diet and prostate cancer risk: a case-control study analysis

The idea that one’s diet may affect one’s risk for prostate cancer in general — or perhaps for one’s risk of more aggressive forms of prostate cancer — is not exactly new.

Eating whole-grain products doesn’t reduce risk for prostate cancer

Perhaps to be more strictly accurate we should rephrase that heading as, “A diet high in whole-grain products did not appear to reduce the risk for prostate cancer among a large cohort of Danish men aged between 50 and 64 years.”

Diet, serum levels of fatty acids, and risk for prostate cancer

An article just published on-line in the American Journal of Epidemiology has suggested that a diet high in at least one of the omega-3 fatty acids may be good for your heart but less good for your prostate.

Diet, veggies, MEAL, and prostate cancer progression

The issue of whether changes in diet and the use of supplements affect risk for and progression of prostate cancer is regular fodder for media coverage. One of the major problems is that there has never been a large, well-controlled clinical trial that could provide definitive (“level 1″) evidence in support of the clinical benefit [...]

A diet and exercise tool-kit for patients on ADT

A group of French researchers have tested use of a diet and exercise tool-kit for men about to start androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). We have not seen the tool-kit, and obviously it is in French … however, it seems to have met with considerable approval from patients and their doctors.

There’s a limit to the benefits of high-fish diets

A new analysis of the available data suggests that while a diet high in fish may be able to limit risk of dying of prostate cancer, it has no evident effect on the risk of being diagnosed with this disease.

Of mice and men and low-carbohydrate diets

We know from prior research that mice that have prostate cancer and are fed a no-carbohydrate ketogenic diet (NCKD) have smaller prostate cancer tumors and live longer than mice that are fed the mouse equivalent of a standard “Western” diet.

A randomized, controlled trial of diet and exercise for men on ADT

A research team in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has initiated a randomized, controlled clinical trial to assess the impact of diet and exercise on body composition, fatigue, and quality of life for patients who have are about to start androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).

Diet and supplement use in the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial

A new report states that there is minimal evidence of any well-defined effect of diet, nutrition or supplement use on the prevention of prostate cancer based on data collected as part of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT).

An update on vitamins and “nutraceuticals” in prostate cancer

The desire to find vitamins and foods and similar products (“nutraceuticals” as compared to pharmaceuticals) that have significant and measurable clinical impact on the prevention and/or the actual treatment of prostate cancer has been a constant over the past 20+ years.

More unconvincing data about diet and cancer risk

Analysis of data from an 8-year-long European trial has concluded that a diet high in fruits and vegetables has only modest impact on people’s risk for cancer — but the study was again so flawed that it is hard to know what it really shows.

Prostate cancer news reports: Saturday, April 3, 2010

Today’s news reports deal with such items as: The effects of antiretroviral drugs for HIV/AIDS on the XMRV virus Diet, milk, and prostate cancer etiology Can saturation biopsies really identify low-risk cancers? Prostate weight and prostate cancer recurrence

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