Parents would want their sons to have prostate cancer vaccine
Friday, November 13th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »If scientists will could develop a “prostate cancer vaccine” that could be given to boys some time in their youth, a large percentage of parents would want their sons to have this vaccine. The problem is that that type of ...
COX-2 inhibitors have no effect in preventing prostate cancer
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »A recent Phase II trial of the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib (Celebrex/Pfizer) concluded that this agent “had no effect on intermediate biomarkers of prostate carcinogenesis.” The main conclusion of authors is that 4 to 6 weeks treatment with celecoxib had no effect ...
Nutrition and lifestyle can help prevent prostate cancer
Sunday, September 13th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »What can you do? A number of very important scientific studies has shown us that one can take 10 steps to a healthy prostate. 1. Decrease the amount of dietary fat. 2. Eat more fish. 3. Eat less meat and high-fat dairy. 4. Eat ...
A simple jab may soon help avoid prostate cancer
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »The research team from University of Utah and University of Columbia have identified a virus, known to trigger leukaemia, in malignant human prostate cancer cells. The viral proteins were found almost exclusively in malignant prostatic cells, suggesting that XMRV (Xenotropic ...
New prostate cancer vaccine enters clinical trials
Sunday, August 9th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced dosing of the first patient in a Phase I/II clinical trial of BP-GMAX-CD1, a novel pharmacologically regulated dendritic cell vaccine for the treatment of prostate cancer. The disease-specific trial is being conducted under a Bellicum ...
Anti-inflammatory drugs, antioxidants, and prostate cancer prevention
Thursday, August 6th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Damage to the prostate epithelium, triggers procarcinogenic inflammatory processes to promote disease development. The damaged epithelium may generate proliferative inflammatory atrophy (PIA) lesions, which may progress to prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) or to prostate cancer. To attenuate prostatic carcinogenesis generated by ...
Diet for a healthy prostate
Friday, July 3rd, 2009 Posted in alternative treatments, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »From a dietary point of view, there haven't been enough well-controlled studies on any nutrients or supplements to be able to draw definitive conclusions regarding prostate cancer prevention. But many reports revealed the evidence that nutrients such as lycopene (a component released when tomatoes are ...
Why some prostate cancer returns
Friday, May 29th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »A recent study, a collaboration between researchers at the Josephine Ford Cancer Center at Henry Ford Hospital and Fox Chase Cancer Center, shows that men with a low oxygen supply to their tumor have a higher chance of the prostate ...
Early detection is key to beating prostate cancer
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Acording to Dr. Anthony Catanese of Somerset Medical Center, the key to staving off or even preventing men to die from prostate cancer is early detection. "There are two kinds of prostate cancer: aggressive and less aggressive," said Catanese, who works ...
The possible role of Vitamin D in development of prostate cancer
Friday, May 15th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate cancer prevention, prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A recent study at Midwestern Regional Medical Center, Zion, IL, USA summarizes all available epidemiological literature on the association between dietary vitamin D, circulating levels of vitamin D and sunlight exposure in relation to prostate cancer risk. To place these ...