We are a nation of anxious people. Ten percent of Americans take antidepressants, and more than 60 percent of those people have taken them for 2 years or longer. Usually stats like these are a cause for hand-wringing, but new information about how antidepressants may work against prostate cancer may be putting a new spin on everything.
Read MoreFor men under the age of 65, a good night's sleep may have just been promoted from a “nice to have” to a “need to have.” Investigators believe they have found a link between disrupted circadian rhythms and a greater risk of prostate cancer.
Read MoreGood news men – in case you didn’t know already know, orgasms not only feel fantastic but are also linked to a decreased risk of prostate cancer. It appears that men who ejaculate a lot over the course of a month are less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Read MoreIf you are a man with prostate cancer, you have higher than normal levels of a protein known as AMACR. What's more, that protein has been linked to the aggressiveness of the cancer, and if your levels of AMACR can be lowered, the growth of your prostate cancer will also slow down commensurately.
Read MoreWhen you study about prostate cancer treatment you read an awful lotabout androgen deprivation therapy, radiation therapy and chemotherapy – because they work. You hear less about immunotherapy for prostate cancer because, despite its effectiveness against many cancers and other diseases, prostate cancer has been notoriously resistant to it.
Read MoreProstatic intraepithelial neoplasia or PIN is a condition in which cells from the prostate begin to look and behave abnormally. Each year around 16% of men who undergo a prostate biopsy will find out they have PIN which is essentially a precancerous condition and therefore is not prostate cancer.
Read MoreAlong with receiving a diagnosis of prostate cancer, comes new medical terminology that is likely unfamiliar to most men. One of the terms a man will hear is what is called a Gleason score. In 1966, a grading system for prostate cancer was developed by Dr. Donald Gleason. The Gleason score, still bearing his name today, is a system used to grade the aggressiveness of prostate cancer tissue.
Read MoreProstate cancer feeds on androgens – male hormones, like testosterone. A common tactic in the battle against prostate cancer is to deprive the cancer of the androgens it craves via androgen deprivation therapy. It won't kill the cancer, but it can slow it down, and against prostate cancer which usually moves glacially anyway, slowing it even more is often enough to checkmate it.
Read MoreProstate cancer, like all cancers, has the potential to spread or metastasize to other parts of the body. If and when it does, it will typically affect the structures within the immediate area. Most likely prostate cancer will spread to the bones or lymph nodes near the prostate. Other structures of the body it could possibly spread to include the seminal vesicles, urinary bladder, liver, intestines, and rarely, the brain.
Read MoreWhat if you could suppress the genes which “turned on” prostate cancer? What if you could suppress the prostate cancer genes by eating certain foods?
Read MoreDoctors continue to study the relationship between vasectomies and prostate cancer risk. And men, it should come as no surprise, continue to pay close attention.
Read MoreFor men who want to take prostate health into their own hands, have we got news for you! Studies indicate the more you ejaculate, the lower is your risk of prostate cancer.
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