The question of whether or not to take a statin to either prevent or actually help in the treatment of prostate cancer has potentially just become moot for many men in America … thanks to new guidance from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). … READ MORE …
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A recent review article in the journal Nature Reviews: Urology has concluded that, while we are learning a lot more about the potential role(s) of statins in the prevention and management of prostate cancer, we still have no definitive evidence of their value. … READ MORE …
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A newly published article in Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases has (potentially) expanded our understanding of the role of saturated fats in men’s diets and consequent risk for diagnosis with aggressive forms of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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A new report from the International Agency Research on Cancer (IARC) Handbook Working Group has concluded that there is a definitive link between “body fatness” and increased risk for diagnosis with 13 different types of cancer — but prostate cancer is not on that list. … READ MORE …
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As some of our older readers will remember, there was a major Phase III clinical trial several years ago (the SELECT trial) designed to study whether taking regular selenium supplements could help to lower risk for a diagnosis of prostate cancer. It didn’t. … READ MORE …
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So the people who publish the “Idiot’s Guides” have now made it possible to develop online content through their web site. We decided to take advantage of that opportunity. … READ MORE …
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According to a report on the MedPage Today web site, three presentations given at the recently completed annual meeting of the American Urological Association addressed prostate cancer risk among men taking testosterone supplements. … READ MORE …
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PCPC3 — the patient-centered prostate cancer collaborative coalition — has just issued a statement about the revised research plan issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) in reassessing the value of PSA screening for risk of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Data from the North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project, a projected funded by the Department of Defense’s Prostate Cancer Research Program, have again shown that diets high in saturated fats seem to increase risk for aggressive forms of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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There’s nothing particularly new to learn from this blog post … but … yet another study has shown how moderate to serious regular exercise can help men initially diagnosed with localized prostate cancer to survive long-term after their diagnosis. … READ MORE …
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According to a news report on the NBC News web site today, the decline in smoking across America appears to “track with” the decline in prostate cancer-specific mortality.
You can find the NBC story here. It is based on a report by Jones et al. in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease.
We would emphasize that it is not possible to state categorically that stopping smoking lowers risk for prostate cancer. We can’t prove cause and effect. What Jones and her colleagues report, however, is that there certainly appears to be a strong association between the two (in the data from the four states that they looked at) and that that association appears to “kick in” as soon as men stop smoking (as opposed to if you stop smoking and the reduction in risk happens several years later).
Your sitemaster is pleased to report that, after smoking like a chimney for the best past of 30 years, he managed to turn off the tap in the late 1990s!
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And in today’s exciting news comes something that it is too late for most prostate cancer patients to do anything about personally (and which they can complain about if they did and they still got prostate cancer … although we’re not sure to whom)! … READ MORE …
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… a research letter in this week’s issue of JAMA Internal Medicine has real implications for anyone who spends significant time in a hospital … as a patient, as a healthcare professional, or just as someone visiting a patient. … READ MORE …
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We regularly tell our readers that a well-balanced, “Mediterranean”-style diet is generally good for our health — whether you are trying to prevent disease in general or because you are trying to manage a diagnosis of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Data in JAMA Oncology, based on a recent analysis of results from the Nurses Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, suggest that daily aspirin may lower risk for gastrointestinal cancers (e.g., colon and rectal cancers) but had no significant impact on risk for prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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