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| Pomegranate juice and PSA Pomegranate juice may lower PSA progression. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=50097&nfid=al -- Juhana "All facts are theory-laden" - Paul Feyerabend |
| A new study: Lifestyle changes may help in prostate cancer Dietary changes and stress management may attenuate prostate cancer progression according to a new study. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Integr Cancer Ther. 2006 Sep;5(3):206-13. Related Articles, Links Potential attenuation of disease progression in recurrent prostate cancer with plant-based diet and stress reduction. Saxe GA, Major JM, Nguyen JY, Freeman KM, Downs TM, Salem CE. Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California. gsaxe@ucsd.edu. A r |
| Delayed Interventions With news reports out that the Journal of the National Cancer Institute has found that delayed intervention for prostate cancer is better than overtreatment, links to the August 16 journal site require you to PAY for the article. Has anyone posting here paid or has a university subscription to the journal? What about some details? News reports are pretty bad on the details. |
| Incidence of Intitial Local Theray: Low-Risk Prostate Cancer The article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute entitled "Incidence of Intitial Local Therapy Among Men With Lower-Risk Prostate Cancer in the United States" was reported on by ABC two nights ago. It is in the Augst 16, 2006 issue of the journal. It finds that among those with low-risk cancers upon diagnosis, 10% were overtreated with a radical prostatectomy and 45% with radiation therapy. I got a copy of the article and read it over. 73,566 men were included in the SEER registry. Has anyone else posting here read the entire article and not just the summary? |
| Some low-risk prostate cancer overtreated Some low-risk cancer patients are overtreated according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, August 16 issue. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=49729&nfid=al -- Juhana "All facts are theory-laden" - Paul Feyerabend |
| Diagnosis According to the range given on my husband's lab test printout, normal range for his age is 0.0 to 4.0. I however, am terrified. In 2004 (the last time he was tested), his reading was 4.0. A couple of weeks ago, he asked for another test, which came back at a staggering 66.5. Yes, you read correctly. Our internist is obviously alarmed, as well he should be. (He diagnosed an enlarged prostate in August 2005 but didn't bother to have a PSA test run.) My husband was sent immediately to a urologist, who diagnosed cancer even before the biopsy (which is to be performed on August 7). Say a p |
| Dr. Larry Clapp Has anyone in this group found any success following the ideas of Dr. Larry Clapp? http://www.prostate90.com |
| New Johns Hopkins website, info on Prostate Disorders Hi all, Just to let you know that Johns Hopkins has started a new website, with a good area on Prostate Disorders: http://www.johnshopkinshealthalerts.com/alerts_index/prostate_disorders/25-1.html It also deals with OA, ED and so on. You can get free email alerts, and special reports at the site, and Symptoms and Remedies. The doctors are Mostwin and Carter at the Brady Urological Center, so you know they know what they are talking about. Here's to getting some relief! best, Joe |
| Concerned about PSA increase--any thoughts? I am 60 years old. I was surprised by a recent PSA uptick at my annual physical exam. The data is below. I might add my doctor is not at all concerned. Any thoughts? (Note that this last one was in 7/06, about 1.5 years after the previous one) 7/06 2.67 2-05 2.2 3-04 2.15 2-03 2.0 11-01 2.1 10-00 2 10-99 1.7 10-98 1.6 10-97 1.5 10-96 1.3 6-95 1.2 |
| New Cancer Treatment hello. there is a web site with some new info on cancer that I would like to share with you all. http://prostatecancer.obscuresound.com keep up the fight! -marcus |
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