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Cancer Connection - November 2007
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Written by Steve Smith
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
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 Like many other cancers, prostate cancer is a disease of risks. In other words, you’re at high risk of getting it if you have an immediate relative—father, brother, uncle—who's had prostate cancer. My grandfather died of it, so I was screwed genetically from the second I was born. Sure enough, doctors found a tumor hidden in the shadows of my prostate five years ago.
In addition to this "run in the family" stuff, you’re also at higher risk for prostate cancer if you’re African American. Unfortunately, blacks are typically diagnosed with prostate cancer more frequently and later—when the cancer is at an advanced stage and more aggressive—than any other racial and ethnic group in the United States.
Now, researchers at Tulane University in New Orleans may have shed light on the burden faced by black men by discovering biological markers involved in the growth of prostate tumor cells.
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Cancer Connection - November 2007
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Written by Steve Smith
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 |
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 Things I want for Christmas:
1. A PSA of 0 for my six-month cancer checkup, which occurs in December. I’ve been cancer free for five Christmases! Let’s make it another one!
2. Peace, faith, courage, and hope for Bill, the former client whose prostate cancer has spread to his bones. He is undergoing chemo at the world-renown M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Ditto for men in his same shoes.
3. Peace, faith, courage, and hope for Bill’s wife and their two precious little girls. Ditto for families who are in the same position with their men.
4. Peace, faith, courage, and hope for any man just diagnosed with prostate cancer. May he remember, “If a wuss like this blogger can handle it, so can I.”
5. More men putting their machismo aside and getting to their doctors for yearly prostate exams.
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Cancer Connection - November 2007
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Written by Steve Smith
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Sunday, 25 November 2007 |
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 Taking too many multivitamins may increase a man’s risk for advanced or fatal prostate cancer by about 30 percent, especially if the condition runs in their families, researchers say.
Millions of Americans take multivitamins because they believe in the potential health benefits, although you’ll be hard pressed to find scientific evidence vitamins prevent chronic disease. Researchers at the federal government’s National Cancer Institute set out to pacify their curiosity about the effect of multivitamins on cancer risk, especially in men. Be first to comment this article |
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