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- Timely Testing, Great Care
Turn Scary Experience into Positive One
Michael Braude, a
writer for the Kansas City Business Journal, discusses his prostate
cancer, which was detected through an annual PSA screening. Business
Journal, January 10. |
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- Government Science Advisory
Committees
More than 200 science advisory boards provide
advice to agencies of the government's Department of Health and Human
Services on various topics. Some critics claim the Bush Administration
staffs these advisory boards based on ideology, not science. Listen to
experts discuss the issue on "Science
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- Prostate Pointers Treatment
Injury Database
Prostate Pointers has created a database
where survivors may enter the side effects (impotence, incontinence,
etc.) they experienced from their primary treatment. Men making
treatment decisions may browse the results
to help them assess the risks of each treatment.
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- African American Survivors
Sought
The “Find The Cause Campaign,” launched by the
National Physician and Family Referral (NPFR) Project, will recruit 100
African American families as part of ongoing hereditary research. More
African American men are diagnosed with prostate cancer than any other
group of men in the world, and recent studies indicate it may run in
their families. NPFR is working in partnership with 50 Hoops and the
National Human Genome Center at Howard University to qualify families
for the hereditary study. If you are African American and you or members
of your family have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, please call the
toll-free hotline at (800) 677-8441, or visit http://www.npfr.resourcez.com/.
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- Toxic Mushroom Grows to
Cancer-Fighting Status
A chemical
derived from the toxic jack-o'-lantern mushroom, irofulven, is being
tested as a possible therapy for difficult-to-treat cancers, such as
advanced ovarian, prostate, breast, liver, gastrointestinal and brain
cancers. Early studies suggest irofulven may be even more potent when
used in combination with such standard chemotherapies as cisplatin and
taxotere. Miami
Herald, January 9. |
- Red Clover Mimics Asian Diet
for Prostate Health
A study at Monash
University in Victoria, Australia, has found that a supplement derived
from red clover causes early-stage prostate cancer cells to die in
numbers five-times greater than in an untreated control group. Newswise,
January 9. |
- Interest Grows in
Avocado Oil's Potential Benefits
High in natural chemicals
that lower cholesterol and fight disease, avocado oil is increasingly
touted as even more healthy than olive or canola oil. Like the fruit,
the oil has antioxidants such as Vitamin E, believed to reduce coronary
artery disease and help the skin; lutein, a carotenoid that protects the
eyes against diseases like cataracts and macular degeneration and that
may guard against prostate cancer; and glutathione, which regulates
other antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E. Chicago
Tribune, January 8. |
- Prostate Specific
Antigen-Related Variables Help Predict Prognosis In Relapsed Prostate
Cancer
The shorter the time to the first relapse of
prostate cancer and to doubling of prostate specific antigen (PSA) at
relapse, the poorer the prognosis, say researchers at the department of
urology, Ashikaga Red Cross Hospital in Japan. DGReview,
January 10. |
- Viagra Deaths Explained by
New Understanding of Platelet Clumping
Incidents of heart
attack and stroke, some fatal, in a small number of men taking the drug
Viagra were a mystery, as Viagra was originally developed to prevent
these conditions -- not only by dilating blood vessels but also by
stopping platelets in the blood from clumping. However, researchers at
the University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine claim the drug
does just the opposite. Viagra, by elevating levels of a compound in
cells called cyclic guanosine monophosphate, or cGMP, actually
encourages platelets to aggregate. Acurian,
January 9. |
- DNA Snippet Key to Cell
Aging
Researchers at the Boston University School of
Medicine have found that a tiny snippet of DNA may be the link between
the way cells fight cancer and their normal response to aging, a new
study shows. Overall, the study suggests the process by which cells
age--and eventually commit suicide--is actually a cancer prevention
strategy, according to a report published in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences. Reuters
Health, January 10. |
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- "Men are wise in proportion, not to their
experience, but to their capacity for experience." - James Boswell, Life
of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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