Drugs used to control diabetes may lower the risk of prostate cancer
Saturday, November 29th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Recent studies at Tampere University, Finland, have reported a decreased prostate cancer risk for diabetic men, although the evidence is controversial. It is currently unclear whether use of antidiabetic medication affects the association between diabetes and prostate cancer. A note about ...
Green Tea May Curb Prostate Cancer
Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Posted in alternative treatments | No Comments »Doctor Saverio Bettuzzi from the University of Parma in Italy has reported back after a one-year study, which found only one man out of a group of 32 receiving Green Tea Catechins developed prostate cancer - a rate of only ...
New Cooling Device May Reduce Prostatectomy Complications
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »Although men who have prostate cancer know that having a prosatectomy may save their life, there’s still a worry about what life will be like after. Sexuality is a big concern among many, but there’s also the issue of not ...
Research team finds novel approach for suppressing prostate cancer development
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »A research team at the University of Southern California suggests that inactivating a specific biomarker for aggressive prostate cancer blocks the development of prostate cancer in animal models. The glucose-regulated protein GRP78 has been identified as a crucial entity in the development ...
Prostate test is as valuable as mammogram
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »A report by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) suggests that wealthy men are more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer. That it's not because they're at increased risk, they're more able and willing to pay for the ...
Additional evidence that “earlier is better” when radiotherapy is required following prostate surgery
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »A research team at Department of Radiotherapy, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy, have provided further information in support of the thesis that adjuvant radiotherapy and early salvage radiotherapy are more effective that delayed radiotherapy in the treatment of men ...
Testosterone therapy do not increase the risk of prostate cancer; study
Friday, November 21st, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »A research team at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA, reviewed studies investigating the relationship between testosterone therapy and prostate cancer progression and summarized strategies for hypogonadism management and prostate monitoring. The tean found no evidence of ...
Diets high in fish and seafood and prostate cancer risk
Friday, November 21st, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A research team at Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, examined the relation of fish and seafood n-3 fatty acid intakes with prostate cancer incidence and mortality. The team conducted a prospective cohort study among 20,167 ...
PSA “signatures” as prognostic indicators following radiotherapy
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »A team of Australian researchers has reported on the potential use of what they are calling PSA “signatures” as a significant improvement in the way to monitor patients following radiotherapy. The use of PSA alone has long presented problems as a ...
Aspirin may lower PSA levels levels among men with prostate cancer.
Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Researchers at Vanderbilt University have found that the use of aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is significantly associated with lower PSA (prostate-specific antigen) levels, especially among men with prostate cancer. After taking into account age, race, family prostate cancer ...