Cigarette smoking may raise prostate cancer risk
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A new study provides good evidence that prostate cancer is likely a smoking-related tumour. Researchers concluded cigarette smoking may increase a man's risk for developing and dying from prostate cancer. They also found "surprisingly consistent evidence," that both the chance ...
Your genes just aren’t enough to define your risk
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »According to a study published in July issue of Genomic Medicine, it is all too easy to want to believe that prostate cancer (and other forms of cancer) might be like one of the truly heritable diseases that are utterly ...
Study finds increased diagnostic activity among men with family history of prostate cancer
Friday, August 20th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Family history is considered as a stronger risk for prostate cancer than for many other cancers. Previous epidemiological studies have shown an increased risk of the disease for brothers and sons of men with the disease. Since the introduction and ...
Asthma inhalers ‘up prostate cancer risk’
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A new study conducted by a team of scientists in Melbourne, Australia, has found that drugs used by thousands of men to treat asthma may increase the risk of prostate cancer. According to the study, among this group, the risk ...
Aspirin cuts prostate cancer risk by 30pc
Thursday, August 12th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A new research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle has shown that taking a low dose of aspirin every day can cut the risk of prostate cancer by almost 30 per cent. According to scientists the painkiller works ...
Dense bones associated to raised risk for prostate cancer
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A new research from Johns Hopkins and the National Institute on Aging (NIA), suggests that men who develop prostate cancer, especially the more aggressive and dangerous forms that spread throughout the body, tend to retain denser bones as they age ...
Tall men at risk of early prostate cancer
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »US and German researchers have found that tallness is associated with increased risk for younger onset aggressive prostate cancer. They came to this conclusion after analyzing data from a cancer screening study involving 34,268 men. Although cancer risk was not greater ...
Nine genetic variants have a cumulative association with risk of developing prostate cancer
Monday, August 2nd, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | 1 Comment »Researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago found the presence of the nine genetic variants in the prostate cancer patients that have a cumulative risk for the disease. They compared predictions using both an established risk model incorporating five of the variants ...
Men with long ring finger ‘three times more likely to get prostate cancer’
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Doctors at the Gachon University Gil Hospital, in Incheon, South Korea concluded Men with a long ring finger could be three times more likely to develop prostate cancer, reports the Daily Mail. They found that the risk increases if the ring ...
Baseline PSA as a predictor of prostate cancer-specific mortality
Saturday, July 24th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A new study at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, investigated the possibility of identification of the risk of death from prostate cancer and death from all causes using information available at the time of baseline prostate-specific antigen (PSA) ...