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Is your saddle hurting your health?
Is your saddle hurting your health?
Cycling is great exercise, but while it seems healthy is it damaging your prostate health? This essential guide to cycling and prostate health was written by Professor Robert Thomas, of Adden ...
Red grape consumption good in fighting prostate cancer
Red grape consumption good in fighting prostate cancer
Scientists from the Howard Cancer Center in Washington DC, have found anticancer compounds in Muscadine red grape skins can prevent and even stop metastatic prostate cancer. The researchers fou ...
A high PSA may be due to the drugs you take, not your prostate
A high PSA may be due to the drugs you take, not your prostate
Blood thinners and PSA   Pradaxa (Dabigatran etexilate) is an oral medication which claims to be ‘the only oral blood thinner with a specific reversal treatment to lower your ri ...
Lycopene reduces risk of aggressive and lethal prostate cancer
Lycopene reduces risk of aggressive and lethal prostate cancer
Lycopene has consistentently been shown by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health to reduce the risk of prostate cancer; to reduce the risk of aggressive prostate cancer; and to reduce ...
The foods to avoid if you dont want prostate cancer?
The foods to avoid if you dont want prostate cancer?
  This article looks at foods like dairy, eggs, red meat and even chicken that have been linked with metastatic prostate cancer and seeks to understand the relationship (Chris Woollams). ...
Three foods work jointly to starve prostate cancer
Three foods work jointly to starve prostate cancer
    Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin have found that a combination of three natural compounds in food can inhibit prostate cancer cell growth.   First the ...
High fat diet promotes prostate cancer growth
High fat diet promotes prostate cancer growth
In a study by Dr. Pier Paolo Pandolfi and a team from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), people with prostate cancer who had high levels of bad fat in their blood were more likely to ...
10 Ways To Cut Estrogen Levels Naturally
10 Ways To Cut Estrogen Levels Naturally
Oestrogen (Estrogen) and oestrogen dominance affects women and men equally and is a product of lifestyle, environment and ageing; here we list 10 natural ways you can reduce levels of oestrogen in ...
Gut bacteria and infection link to Prostate cancer
Gut bacteria and infection link to Prostate cancer
Gut bacteria and pathogens from past infections may well play a big part in prostate cancer according to a number of different research groups, studying the highly inflammatory nature of the ...
Prostate cancer two drugs better than one
Prostate cancer two drugs better than one
  A new trial providing Abiraterone at a much earlier stage in treating prostate cancer and in conjunction with Zoladex, is reported to extend the life of patients to 7 years rather than 3 ...
Button mushrooms help in breast and prostate cancer
Button mushrooms help in breast and prostate cancer
Button mushrooms have been found to reduce levels of oestrogen in the body and so have significant effects against breast and prostate cancers. So say the City of Hope Hospital, Los Angeles, in th ...
Italian style coffee cuts prostate cancer risk in half
Italian style coffee cuts prostate cancer risk in half
A study involving 7,000 men found that those who drank more than 3 cups of Italian style coffee a day (for example, expresso or capuchino), had a 53 per cent lowered prostate cancer risk. The reas ...
Enough evidence exists to link BPA exposure to breast and prostate cancer
Enough evidence exists to link BPA exposure to breast and prostate cancer
  Dr. Ana M Soto of Tufts University School of Medicine has been studying ‘Endocrine Disrupting chemicals’ or xenoestrogen for a considerable amount of time and is clear, &lsqu ...
New Prostate breakthrough treatment involves bacteria and lasers
New Prostate breakthrough treatment involves bacteria and lasers
Scientists at University College London led by Professor Mark Emberton have been using bacteria, from the bottom of the oceans as agents (‘drugs’, according to the researchers) to sele ...
Modern prostate cancer treatment increases colorectal cancer risk
Modern prostate cancer treatment increases colorectal cancer risk
Research from scientists led by Dr. Yunxia Lu, Associate Professor in the Colorectal Surgery Dept. at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has shown that since 1980, when prostate treatment with oes ...
Study finds no survival advantage in prostate treatment
Study finds no survival advantage in prostate treatment
Professor Freddy Hamdy and his Oxford University team have found that there is no advantage in having orthodox treatment in localised prostate cancer. The NHS study followed more than 82,000 men a ...
Radioactive drug to assassinate advanced prostate cancer
Radioactive drug to assassinate advanced prostate cancer
Xofigo, or radium-223 dichloride, is in the final stages of approval by NICE. It could be available on the NHS by December 2016. It is a drug for prostate cancer patients where the disease has spr ...
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Daily exercise shown to reduce breast, prostate and colorectal cancer mortality
Light daily physical activity such as daily walks can increase survival and reduce the risk of dying from cancer. Exercise has many benefits and time and time again it has been shown to prevent ca ...
Statins keep prostate cancer at bay
Statins keep prostate cancer at bay
After major new controversies erupt over statins and how they fail to reduce heart diseases while adding side-effects like diabetes and sight problems, more uses are needed fast. Right on cue c ...
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Two years increased prostate survival with earlier chemo
Using docetaxel early gives two years more prostate survival New research has shown that providing men with chemotherapy as soon as the cancer spreads beyond the prostate can give men up to two ...
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Diet recommendations for men with prostate cancer
Once a man has been treated for prostate cancer, what diet most helps him prevent it returning? Sadly, not a standard Western Diet, according to the Harvard School of Public Health. We have tol ...
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No link between prostate cancer and testosterone levels
As we have told you for a dozen years, oncologists who blame your prostate cancer on high testosterone are merely quoting an old wives’ tale. Back in 2004 we covered research that oestrog ...
Prostate cancer and brachytherapy
Prostate cancer and brachytherapy
One thing that always made me laugh was when Cancer Research said that brachytherapy (the use of radioactive seeds to surround and kill a prostate tumour) was perfectly safe. But then went on to t ...
Vitamin D effective with Prostate cancer
Vitamin D effective with Prostate cancer
Vitamin D supplements could slow or even reverse the progression of less aggressive, or low-grade, prostate tumors without the need for surgery or radiation. That is according to new research o ...
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Prostate cancer risk linked to BPA exposure in the womb
Professor Gail Prins and her team at the University of Illinois, Chicago have shown that exposure to the chemical BPA in the womb, increases the risk of prostate cancer later in life.  Exp ...
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Triglyceride levels linked to prostate cancer recurrence
Prostate cancer recurrence A new study from Duke University Medical School and published October 10th online in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention has linked high triglyceride lev ...
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Study links vasectomy to aggressive prostate cancer
Harvard Scientists have followed 49,400 males for 24 years starting in 1986 and shown that the 25% of the men in the study who had had a vasectomy, had a 10% higher risk of prostate cancer than th ...
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Are orthodox prostate treatments a waste of time?
A body of research evidence is building which shows current orthodox prostate cancer treatment may be a waste of time. Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, (results publi ...
Tomatoes linked to lower prostate cancer risk (yet again!!)
Tomatoes linked to lower prostate cancer risk (yet again!!)
Researchers at Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol Universities compared the lifestyles of 1,806 men with prostate cancer to 12,005 men without. All were between ages 50 and 69 (Cancer Epidemiology, Bio ...
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