Prostate Cancer Awareness
I saw this posted Tuesday.
"One in vitro and animal study published in the journal Carcinogenesis in 2008 found growth of human prostate cancer cells was inhibited when exposed to the antioxidant resveratrol."
From WWW.YOUTUBE.COM, thanks Suzanne
My mother said she heard this on the radio.
"Two new studies from Italy and Canada have linked milk consumption to a significantly higher risk of prostate cancer."
she wants to know what you think.
Prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer in American men, behind only skin cancer. But it is treatable -- only one out of 35 men who get it dies from it.
I saw this posted Tuesday on BLOG.AL.COM.
"The Mobile County Health Department will offer free prostate cancer screenings to men age 40 to 75 years old who have no health insurance or who are underinsured from Monday through Oct. 1."
I found this article and thought I would pass it along.
"Recent genetic association studies have uncovered a number of DNA variants associated with prostate cancer. However, some of these risk variants lie outside of genes, posing a challenge to researchers working to understand the biology of cancer. In a new study, researchers have characterized a functional DNA element associated with prostate cancer, lending new insight into the molecular ..."
Alex told me about this - "Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber has called for all men over the age of 50 to have a test for prostate cancer."
(PhysOrg.com) -- Patients with prostate cancer now have two new interactive web tools known as risk calculators to help them better understand their disease.