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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
Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Prevention, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: dairy, diet, milk, prostate, risk, saturation biopsy, weight, XMRV | Leave a Comment »
Every year thousands of published research papers and articles carefully use the word “may” or “could” in a headline or a conclusion … and can lead to misconceptions and misunderstandings as a consequence. There are two perfect examples from today’s news.
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Over the years a variety of factors have suggested an association between diet and risk for prostate cancer — with a particular emphasis on the “dangers” of larger quantities of things like red meat, meat fats, and milk-based products in the diet.
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In a plenary session on Tuesday, Dr. William Aronson summarized current understanding about the impact of diet and lifestyle on prostate cancer development and progression.
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Today’s news reports deal with: A gene modification that may identify risk for prostate cancer Dietary intervention and prostate cancer management “Elastography” as a possible means to assess risk for prostate cancer Pain management in very late stage disease
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This morning’s news report addresses items on: p53 overexpression and prostate cancer outcomes Diet and prostate cancer in newly diagnosed patients and prostate cancer survivors Outcomes of surgical treatment of men with clinical T1a and T1b disease Peripheral androgen ablation in men with biochemical recurrence after first-line treatment
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Prevention, Risk, Treatment, Uncategorized | Tagged: diet, finasteride, flutamide, p53 overexpression, peripheral androgen blockade, T1a, T1b | Leave a Comment »
We have separately addressed data from a 15-year follow-up of a population-based Swedish screening study. Other reports today deal with: The impact of dietary and supplemental zinc on prostate cancer risk Prediction of risk for loss/preservation of erectile function post- prostatectomy Anti-androgen therapy and brachytherapy: options and outcomes
Filed under: Management, Prevention, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: anti-androgen, brachytherapy, diet, erectile function, maximal androgen deprivation, monotherapy, potency, prediction, risk, supplement, surgery, zinc | Leave a Comment »
We have added information about three more recent studies for your weekend reading, dealing with: Soy, diet, and prostate cancer prevention Outcomes of bladder neck preservation during radical prostatectomy A predictive model for chemotherapy outcomes in HRPC patients
Filed under: Drugs in development, Management, Prevention, Treatment | Tagged: bladder neck preservation, chemotherapy, diet, hormone-refractory prostate cancer, nomogram, outcome, Prevention, risk, soy | Leave a Comment »
Reports presented this morning address: Diet and risk for prostate cancer among Jamaican males Diagnostic markers and low risk prostate cancer PSA-expression in cells from bone marrow aspirates and bone marrow biopsy specimens
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Park et al. have just reported the results of the truly vast NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study, which included data from more than 490,000 older men and women (aged between 50 and 71 when the study started in the 1990s) over an average 7-year follow-up period.
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There’s a new diet and prostate cancer story “doing the rounds” in the media. It started out stating that dietary changes can induce “substantial” effects on PSA doubling times among men who have received first-line treatment for prostate cancer. The problem with the story is that is based on a small pilot study published last [...]
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: diet, journalist, media, misrepresentation, progression, risk, vegetarian | 2 Comments »
There seems to be little doubt that certain groups of men, who, for one or more reasons, have certain specific types of diet, living in certain places at certain times, are at lower risk for prostate cancer than those who consume what we might think of as the diet of the average American today.
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Today’s reports cover such topics as: Diets high in fish and seafood and prostate cancer risk Testosterone therapy and prostate cancer risk A new, first-in-class drug enters prostate cancer trials The science behind products like Provenge
Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Prevention, Treatment | Tagged: diet, elesclomol, fish, Provenge, risk, seafood, sipleucel-T, testosterone | Leave a Comment »
Amin et al. have just published data from a 917-patient, Canadian, prospective study designed to evaluate the association between diet and risk for prostate cancer.
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Many reader will already have seen or heard reports of the demise of the SELECT prostate cancer prevention trial. In other news today: There is a recent review of trials of diet and dietary supplements Further evidence supports the potential of surrogate markers for prostate cancer mortality Saturation biopsies appear to overestimate the risk of [...]
Filed under: Diagnosis, Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: biopsy, diet, supplements, surrogate endpoint | Leave a Comment »
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