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 ...
Vitamin A Linked to Lower Risk of Aggressive Prostate Cancer
Sunday, May 10th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Vitamin A — also known as retinol — has been studied before for its potential as a chemopreventive agent for prostate cancer. In the past, data from studies on the association between circulating retinol concentrations and the risk of prostate ...
Combo therapy of vitamin E, selenium, soy doesn’t prevent prostate cancer
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »A new study, conducted by Canadian researchers, has found that the combination therapy of vitamin E, selenium and soy does not prevent the progression from high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) to prostate cancer. The findings were presented at the 104th Annual ...
Statins prevent prostate cancer and reduce the risk of erectile dysfunction
Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Several recent studies suggest statins help reduce the risk of erectile dysfunction and prevent prostate cancer. All conclusions were to be reported Sunday in Chicago at the American Urological Association's (AUA) annual meeting. A study at the University of Toronto Medical Center in Ontario, ...
Soy, diet, and prostate cancer prevention
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Some studies have suggested that eating soy-based foods may reduce your risk for prostate cancer. Based on a systematic literature review, a recent study identified 15 epidemiologic publications on soy consumption and 9 on isoflavones in association with prostate cancer risk. ...