Recent Posts Tagged With 'prostate cancer'

• Disparity in cancer care: it’s not that bad after all

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 23:29 in Cancer, ethnicity, prostate cancer, cervical cancer, disparity, health outcomes, socioeconomic status

  Ethnicity, geneder and socioeconomic status are three factors that are often associated with health outcome disparities, including cancer care. There have been studies that showed disparities in care and therefore health outcomes in cancer patients...

• Fighting prostate cancer with power food

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 02:28 in Cancer, food, vegetables, fruit, prostate cancer, prostate cancer awareness month, anti-cancer properties

  September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and this week, September 21 to 27 is the Prostate Cancer Awareness Week. Prostate cancer is a big big thing nowadays. Just look at the statistics as to the number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer (ov...

• Alcohol consumption increases cancer risk in men, too.

  Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 07:04 in MEN, Cancer, prostate cancer, esophageal cancer, cancer risk, alcohol consumption, liver-cancer

  It was only earlier this year that the Million Women Study reported the following: alcohol consumption even at low levels increases women’s risk for cancer. It seems that the same is true for men as well. Canadian researchers have recently repo...

• Green tea and prostate cancer

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 01:03 in Cancer, prevention, prostate cancer, health benefits, biomarkers, green-tea

  Another reason to drink green tea - at least for men. A recent study reports that consumption of green tea may slow down the progression of prostate cancer. The study looked at 26 men, aged 41 to 72 years old who were diagnosed with prostate cancer a...

• Is this new test a better alternative to PSA?

  Posted on Tuesday June 9th, 2009 at 07:35 in Cancer, accuracy, psa, sensitivity, blood test, prostate cancer, specificity

  With the current controversy related to the unreliability of the PSA test, the news of a new promising blood test to detect prostate cancer is very welcome. PSA stands for prostate-specific antigens and levels of PSA in the blood are used as biomarke...

• Can a healthy lifestyle alter your genes and treat your cancer?

  Posted on Monday May 25th, 2009 at 06:09 in Cancer, genes, prostate cancer, health benefits, lifestyle change

   We’ve heard this statement of resignation before: “I can’t do anything about it. It’s in my genes.” Indeed, many diseases have been linked to genetics, including heart disease, mental illness, and cancer. However, this...