Cigarette smoking may raise prostate cancer risk
Friday, March 12th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Pooled data from 24 studies involving 21,600 men with the disease indicates that cigarette smoking may increase a man's risk for developing and dying from prostate cancer. This study provides good evidence that prostate cancer is likely a smoking-related tumour. However, researchers call ...
Daily fat intake and risk for prostate cancer
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A research team at University of Nottingham Medical School, UK, has published data from a population-based, case-control study with 512 patients under 60 years of age and 838 controls, conducted in the United Kingdom between 1999 and 2004. Collected data suggest ...
Bone mineral content and prostate cancer risk
Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A recent study aimed to determine whether there might be differences in bone mineral content between men who develop life-threatening prostate cancer and those who do not, as bone is a common site of prostate cancer metastases. According to study findings, ...
Diabetes and outcomes after radical prostatectomy
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Diabetes is associated with lower prostate cancer risk. The association of diabetes with prostate cancer outcomes is less clear. A new stydy at Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, USA, examined the association between diabetes and outcomes after radical prostatectomy ...
Aspirin combined with hormone can shorten lives of prostate cancer patients
Monday, January 11th, 2010 Posted in hormone therapy, prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A new research at Brigham & Women's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, both in Boston, suggests that men undergoing hormone therapy for prostate cancer who take baby aspirin to protect their heart run a significantly higher risk of dying. Hormonal ...
Re-validation of prostate cancer risk calculator in contemporary patients
Sunday, January 10th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Statistical models such as the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial risk calculator have been developed to estimate the cancer risk in an individual and help determine indications for biopsy. It should be remembered that the current calculator was developed using data ...
Older patients appear to have an increased risk of prostate cancer recurrence
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks, prostatectomy | No Comments »A scietific team at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, aimed evaluate the effects of age at radical prostatectomy (RP) on recurrence-free survival (RFS) in patients with prostate cancer stratified by established preoperative risk factors (such as ...
Serum vitamin D and prostate cancer risk
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A recent study at German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany aimed to review and summarize evidence on the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and the risk of prostate cancer (PC). From eleven original articles that were included, ten reported on ...
Blood pressure and risk of prostate cancer
Friday, December 25th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Some previous conclusions suggest that raised blood pressure may increase prostate cancer risk. A new research at University of Bristol, UK. investigated associations of blood pressure with prostate cancer within the CONOR collaborative cohorts of Norway. Reseachers concluded that raised blood ...
Obesity and prostate cancer risk
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Some prior studies have suggested a relationship between obesity and adverse pathologic features on prostate biopsy and have suggested that obese patients may ber at higher risk for prostate cancer-related death after radical prostatectomy. However, other studies have been unable ...