Our diet is always a point of a major conversation around cancer prevention and control. This is no different for prostate cancer prevention and control. Many of us have made a serious attempt to add fish oil (omega-3 oils) to our diet to fight inflammation, a major no-no in cancer fighting. That’s got to be [...]
Prostate cancer and diet has been strongly link for a while. We are told to eat a Mediterranean style diet or to become a vegetarian. Being over weight has been strongly linked to having a prostate cancer recurrence. This week's online edition of the journal Cancer Prevention Research states that cutting back on carbohydrates appears [...]
I have recently received a number of emails asking about the role of vitamin A (retinol) in advanced prostate cancer. These questions come from the recently released results of the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial, which have caused the current stir about PSA screening. In this study, 803 prostate cancer survivors [...]
When your PSA starts to rise after you have received primary treatment you need to be concerned that your prostate cancer has reoccurred. The first indicator of recurrent prostate cancer is a detectable level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA). Research has demonstrated that PSA doubling time is a reliable tool to distinguish which cancers pose a [...]
Most studies on prostate cancer prevention focus on the initial prevention of the cancer. Rarely do we see studies on preventing advanced prostate cancer. Now a study has shown that consuming omega-3 fatty acids appear to protect against developing advanced prostate cancer. In other words, eating a serving of fish each week could dramatically reduce [...]