What is a good prostate cancer diet? In reality, there is no overwhelming, big sample size studies that we can point to that provides actual scientific, statistically significant evidence of being the “best.” However, many small studies point to the better diet (better than the typical western diet full of red meat and processed sugars). [...]
Mike Scott from the New Prostate Cancer Info Link has sent an email to many members of the leadership of the prostate cancer community letting us know about an opportunity to provide feedback to the federal government asking that there be an office of Men’s Health established. The following is a copy of Mike’s complete [...]
We constantly discuss diet and its implications on prostate cancer on both our on-line and face-to-face support groups. As an individual who does enjoy a steak I have made great strides in significantly restraining myself and greatly limit my consumption of red meat. However, I often wonder if all the talk about being a vegetarian [...]
This coming Sunday, June 7, is National Cancer Survivors Day. This will mark the 27th anniversary of this event To learn more about National Cancer Survivor Day you can Visit the following site National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation I am proud to be a part of the brotherhood and sisterhood of cancer survivors. Joel T [...]
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 [...]
Once we become hormone refractory (HRPC) there remains only one approved drug to treat our prostate cancer, docetaxel. As with hormone therapy (ADT) docetaxel also stops working after a period. There have been different strategies used to try to deal with this untenable situation, including the use of docetaxel on an intermittent schedule. A recent [...]
A paradoxical, but logical finding, indicates that I am more likely to die from prostate cancer than my fellow pc survivors. In the world of prostate cancer I am a young man. I was diagnosed at 50 years and suffered a recurrence at 55 years, in the prostate cancer world this makes me a young [...]
The Department of Urology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, performed a retrospective study designed to evaluate the overall survival (OS) and disease-specific survival (DSS) in men receiving primary androgen-deprivation therapy (PADT) or salvage medical ADT (SADT) for prostate cancer. The study included men who were diagnosed and treated with ADT between July [...]
A study performed by the American Clinical Oncology Society and funded by the federal government was released on Thursday that demonstrated that ginger and ginger capsules taken a few days prior to the administration of chemotherapy significantly reduced chemo related nausea. Be aware that ginger ale and ginger cookies often contain only ginger flavor, not [...]
