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Women tell all about coping with partner's prostate cancer
Calgary Herald,  Canada -
It's a topic most people shy away from talking about publicly: sex during and after prostate cancer. But Monday afternoon, four woman took the stage in ...

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Task Force Recommends Against PSA Screening for Older Men
MedPage Today, NJ -
For men younger than 75, the task force found "convincing evidence" that PSA screening can detect prostate cancer, but insufficient evidence to support or ...
Task Force Backs Changes in Routine Prostate Screening New York Times
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Highlights of the Successful First Half of 2008 and Year to Date
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PROSTATE CANCER: Support group for patients and their families, 9:30-11:30 am the third Thursday of the month, 121 Sherwood Road, Asheville. Call 252-4106. ...
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an innovative cancer drug discovery and development company, today provided a research and development (R&D) update and announced financial results for the ...INFI
Meeting addresses prostate cancer
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A Prospective Study of Dietary Fat and Risk of Prostate Cancer -
E Giovannucci, EB Rimm, GA Colditz, MJ Stampfer, A … - jnci, 1993 - jnci.oxfordjournals.org
... prostate cancer. Implications: These findings support recommendations to
lower intake of meat to reduce the risk of prostate cancer. ...

Geographic patterns of prostate cancer mortality. Evidence for a protective effect of ultraviolet … -
CL Hanchette, GG Schwartz - Cancer, 1992 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... cancer. CONCLUSIONS. These data lend support to the hypothesis that UV radiation
may protect against clinical prostate cancer. Viewed ...

… rectal examination and serum prostate specific antigen in the early detection of prostate cancer: … -
WJ Catalona, JP Richie, FR Ahmann, MA Hudson, PT … - J Urol, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... l or digital rectal examination is suspicious for cancer, even in ... Substances:
Prostate-Specific Antigen. Grant Support: P 20 CA 58193/CA/United States NCI. PMID ...

Intake of Carotenoids and Retino in Relation to Risk of Prostate Cancer -
E Giovannucci, A Ascherio, EB Rimm, MJ Stampfer, … - jnci, 1995 - jnci.oxfordjournals.org
... Implications: Our findings support recommendations to increase ... consumption to reduce
cancer incidence but ... especially beneficial regarding prostate cancer risk. ...

Prostate cancer radiation dose response: results of the MD Anderson phase III randomized trial. -
A Pollack, GK Zagars, G Starkschall, JA Antolak, … - Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2002 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... of 70 vs. 78 Gy in controlling prostate cancer. METHODS AND MATERIALS ...
Substances: Prostate-Specific Antigen. Grant Support: ...

The polycomb group protein EZH2 is involved in progression of prostate cancer. -
S Varambally, SM Dhanasekaran, M Zhou, TR Barrette … - Nature, 2002 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Click here to read Comment in: Nature. 2002 Oct 10;419(6907):572-3. The polycomb
group protein EZH2 is involved in progression of prostate cancer. ...

… , a Putative Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Gene Mutated in Human Brain, Breast, and Prostate Cancer -
J Li, C Yen, D Liaw, K Podsypanina, S Bose, SI … - Science, 1997 - sciencemag.org
... Reports. PTEN, a Putative Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Gene Mutated in Human Brain,
Breast, and Prostate Cancer. ... (C) Mutation in prostate cancer cell line LNCaP. ...

Segregation Analysis of Prostate Cancer in Sweden: Support for Dominant Inheritance -
H Gr?nberg, L Damber, JE Damber, L Iselius - American Journal of Epidemiology, 1997 - Oxford Univ Press
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in Sweden: support for dominant inheritance. H Gronberg, L ...

Gene expression correlates of clinical prostate cancer behavior -
D Singh, PG Febbo, K Ross, DG Jackson, J Manola, C … - Cancer Cell, 2002 - Elsevier
... These results support the notion that the clinical behavior of prostate cancer is
linked to underlying gene expression differences that are detectable at the ...

Plasma Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I and Prostate Cancer Risk: A Prospective Study. -
JM Chan, MJ Stampfer, E Giovannucci, PH Gann, J Ma … - The Journal of Urology, 1998 - jurology.com
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More support for soy's protection against prostate cancer

A diet rich in soy, sunflower seeds, berries and peanuts can reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 26 per cent, claims new research from Sweden.
 

Soy,, beans and nuts contain phytoestrogens, oestrogen-like compounds found in plants. The phytoestrogens in soy are mostly isoflavones, while beans and berries contain lignans.

The new study, published in the journal Cancer Causes and Control (Vol. 17, pp.169-180), claims to be the largest such study in the western world. The diet of 1499 volunteers with recently diagnosed prostate cancer was compared with the diets of 1130 healthy control volunteers using dietary questionnaires.

A smaller group containing 209 cases and 214 controls underwent blood tests to measure the amount of the phytoestrogen enterolactone.

"High intake of food items rich in phytoestrogens was associated with a decreased risk of prostate cancer. The odds ratio (OR) [the risk compared to a standard of 1.00] comparing the highest to the lowest quartile of intake was 0.74," wrote lead author Maria Hedelin from Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet.

The case-control blood test group also showed that those with increased blood levels of enterolactone had a 70 per cent lower risk of prostate cancer.

"Our results support the hypothesis that certain foods high in phytoestrogens are associated with a lower risk of prostate cancer," said Hedelin.

The researchers could not conclude if the protection from prostate cancer was due to the phytoestrogens alone or a combination with other substances. They also recommended against taking supplements with high concentrations of artificial phytoestrogens, stressing that no clinical trials had been performed and such high doses could have side effects.

An animal study published in Biology of Reproduction (2004, Vol. 70, pp. 1188-1195) claimed that the metabolite of the soy isoflavone daidzein stopped the effect of the male hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which has been linked to prostate growth and male baldness.

More study if required to identify which phytoestrogens are active, and further work is needed to identify the mechanism of protection.

Over half a million news cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed every year world wide, and the cancer is the direct cause of over 200,000 deaths. More worryingly, the incidence of the disease is increasing with a rise of 1.7 per cent over 15 years.

The lowest incidences of the cancer are found in China, Japan and India, with experts linking this to a high dietary intake of soy products. A recent meta-analysis from the International Journal of Cancer (2005, Vol. 117, pp. 667 - 669) reported that men who regularly consumed soy-containing products had a 30 per cent lower risk of the cancer.

 
 
 
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