Desk jobs increase risk of prostate cancer
Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »MEN who work sitting at a desk are more likely to develop prostate cancer than manual workers, a study has shown. Scientists looked at whether levels of physical activity in the workplace were linked with tumours and found that having a ...
Vitamin D doesn’t cut prostate cancer risk
Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted in alternative treatments, prostate cancer risks | No Comments »U.S. National Cancer Institute researchers set out to see if vitamin D might protect against prostate cancer, the second most frequently diagnosed cancer in men worldwide. They tracked vitamin D concentrations in the blood of 749 men diagnosed with prostate ...
Delay in body growth linked to prostate cancer
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer prevention, prostate cancer risks | No Comments »An Italian research team lead by Dr. Paola Muti of the Italian National Cancer Institute, Rome, concluded that boys who reach their adult body size in their early 20s may be more prone to prostate cancer later in life than ...
Timing of Physical Maturity in Men Influences Prostate Cancer Risk
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Reuters Health reports on a study published in the journal ‘Urology’ which ’suggests’ that the timing of physical development in young men is related to the risk of prostate cancer. The study was based on a comparison of bodily and sexual ...
Agent Orange associated to aggressive prostate cancer
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A recent research at UC Davis Cancer Center found that Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange have greatly increased risks of prostate cancer and even greater risks of getting the most aggressive form of the disease as compared to those who ...
Men with desk jobs have higher risk of prostate cancer
Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A new study has shown tha men who work sitting at a desk are more likely to develop prostate cancer than manual workers. The findings, published in the European Journal of Cancer Prevention, confirm the benefits of regular exercise in reducing ...
Biomarkers may help predict prostate cancer recurrence
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A scientific team from University of Texas Southwestern have identified seven biomarkers that may help predict prostate cancer recurrence in patients after surgery. Biomarkers are proteins circulating in a patient's blood that are specific to a disease. Currently used risk assessment methods can ...
Fathers Get 16% More Prostate Cancer
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »When a man fathers his first child, his lifetime risk of prostate cancer goes up 16%. Nobody has any idea why this might be so, but the finding, based on 51.6 million man-years of data, is as certain as any statistical ...
Agent Orange Exposure Doubles Prostate Cancer Risk
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | 2 Comments »Researchers presenting their findings at the American Urological Association's Annual Meeting say there is a definite correlation between Agent Orange exposure and prostate cancer risk for Vietnam vets. Lead researcher Dr. Karim Chamie said that the new analysis was based on ...
Diagnostic X-ray Raises Prostate Cancer Risk
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Exposure of the prostate gland to diagnostic radiological procedures may increase cancer risk, according to a UK study in the June 3, 2008 issue of British Journal of Cancer. Ionizing radiation, commonly used in diagnostic tools and radiotherapy, is a human ...