Stopping Prostate Cancer A New Look

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Dennis — No Comments ↓

Researchers from Massachusetts General Harvard, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently revealed that long-term use of aspirin is associated with lower risk of dying from various types of cancers, including lung and prostate cancer. Both cancers are the leading killers of men. The findings were presented at the April 2017 meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Apparently aspirin not only reduces the risk of developing… Read More »

Tagged with: American Cancer Society, annual physical, Bayer, diet and prostate cancer, enlarged prostate, Harvard Medical School, men who speak up, National Mens Health Awareness Initiative, PSA, US Preventative Services Taskforce, ZERO

Aspirin May Lower Prostate Cancer Risk

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Dennis — No Comments ↓

Men who take aspirin regularly may have a lower risk of dying from prostate cancer, a new study suggests.

Dr. Christopher Allard, a urologic oncology fellow at Harvard Medical School in Boston reported that the regular intake of aspirin decreases the risk of prostate cancer death by almost 40%. That may suggest men could have one more reason to consider regular aspirin use.

The findings were presented Jan. Read More »

Tagged with: American Society of Clinical Oncology, ASCO, Bayer, Dr Christopher Allard, Harvard Medical School, National Mens Health Awareness Initiative

Early PSA Testing — Critical For Younger Men

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Dennis — No Comments ↓

Prostate cancer screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has been shown to reduce death and the spread of prostate cancer to other parts of the body, but the PSA test remains highly controversial as it frequently leads to over diagnosis and over treatment of men who may not be at risk. Smarter screening strategies that can improve the accuracy of diagnosing lethal prostate cancer are urgently needed. Through a prospective… Read More »

Tagged with: African American Men, annual physical, Bayer, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Mark Preston, MD, men who speak up, MPH, Physicians' Health Study, real men get tested, ZERO

Black Patient Prostate Cancer Screening Issues

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Dennis — No Comments ↓

Many studies have shown the negative effect health providers’ underlying prejudices can have on the doctor-patient relationship and the decisions patients make about their care. And according to a new study, oncologists are not immune.
Some cancer physicians are letting their implicit racial biases get in the way of quality treatment for Black patients.
Researchers at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan, studied video-recorded interactions between 18… Read More »

Tagged with: Bayer, black patients, diet and prostate cancer, Harvard Medical School, JAMA Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Louis A. Penner, men who speak up, Office of Minority Health, Quoc-Dien Trinh, real men get tested, Reuters, University of Colorado Cancer Center, ZERO

Prostate Cancer and Nuts

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Dennis — No Comments ↓

Men who have prostate cancer could reduce their risk of death by up to a third by eating nuts regularly, new research has suggested.

The researchers, experts at Harvard Medical School in Boston, studied 47,000 men over 26 years and identified 6,800 who had developed prostate cancer.

Writing in the British Journal of Cancer they found no “statistically significant associations” between eating nuts and being diagnosed with prostate cancer.

However,… Read More »

Tagged with: annual physical, Bayer, British Journal of Cancer, consume more nuts, diet and cancer, diet and prostate cancer, Harvard Medical School, men who speak up, nuts, real men get tested, regular check ups, silence is not a cure

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