Dr Q&A on Men & Osteoporosis
How widespread is osteoporosis among men? Dr. Silverman: Osteoporosis occurs not only in women but men and children as well. If we judge our number of fractures by extreme old age, one in three...
Tagged: prostate cancer
Diets High in Tomatoes Have a Lower Cancer Risk
Doctors may have found a new weapon in the battle against prostate cancer: the tomato. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago found lower DNA damage and lower PSA levels among a group...
Soy protein and prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is the number two cancer killer of men in this country. Treatment options range from surgery to “watchful waiting.” Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Fla., are studying...
Help to Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk
Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in American men, second only to skin cancer. Each year, about 200,000 men are diagnosed with the disease and 31,000 die. While regular screening has...
NSAIDs help prevent prostate cancer
Daily use of aspirin or another of the class of pain relievers known as NSAIDs could help prevent prostate cancer in older men, say Mayo Clinic researchers. Their study found less than half as...
How big of a problem is prostate cancer?
It’s the most common cancer in men in the United States. Its been about 200,000 cases a year for the last five years or so. That means in the last five years, there are...
Soy Diet and Prostate Cancer
Nagi B. Kumar, R.D., explains the value of incorporating soy into your diet to prevent and/or lessen the effects of prostate cancer. What effect has soy shown to have in cancers? Kumar: Soy is...
New Vaccines for Cancer
BOSTON (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Could the cure for breast cancer come in a shot? What about a vaccine to treat prostate cancer? Doctors are now looking past measles and mumps and developing vaccines to...
Prostate Cancer
Only heart attacks and lung cancer kill more men than cancer of the prostate, which every year claims more than fifty thousand lives in the United States alone. Prostate cancer kills one in four...