Prostate cancer is one of the leading killers of men. The National Cancer Institute estimates that 186,320 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, and 28,660 will die from it.
Although it’s one of the most common cancers suffered by men, there are ways to minimize the risk of getting it, said Dr. Ihor Sawczuk, chairman of urology and chief of urologic oncology at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey.
The combination of estrogen plus progestin, which women stopped taking in droves following the news that it may increase their risk of breast cancer, may decrease their risk of colorectal cancer, according to a report published in the January issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
“Compared to women who had never taken these hormones, the use of estrogen plus progestin was associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer,” said Jill R. Johnson, M.P.H., a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
Read the rest of this entry »NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Data from the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study show that higher than normal insulin levels are an independent risk factor for breast cancer.
Study investigators, led by Dr. Marc J. Gunter at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, examined the association between breast cancer and blood parameters at study entry in 835 women who later developed breast cancer and 816 who did not. All of the women were postmenopausal and none were diabetic at baseline.
A study that was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that vitamin B supplements did not protect people taking them from developing cancer, although past research has suggested it did have the aforementioned effect.
Lead author of the study Dr. Shumin Zhang of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, along with his team, looked at 5,442 female health-care professionals throughout the United States, all of whom had been taking a supplement including vitamins B6, B12 and B9 (also known as folic acid) daily over a period of about seven and a half years.
Monday October 13, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) — In the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we will publish a series of reports on studies and others on the disease to raise readers’ awareness of the fact that breast cancer is a preventable disease.
A study published in the Nov. 2008 issue of British Journal of Nutrition identified a dietary pattern that was linked to increased risk of breast cancer.
The study led by Schulz M and colleagues from German Institute of Human Nutrition in Germany was meant to determine if certain diet pattern is associated with risk of breast cancer.
Tuesday October 14, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) — In the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the campaign organizers and sponsors want as many women as possible to know the risk of breast cancer in hopes that more women or even men may go to receive regular screenings for breast cancer.
The risk is not the same to everyone. That is why you are not going to do screening at a young age. But how many people really know they are in the low risk group or high risk group remains questionable.
- Red wine may reduce the risk of lung cancer in men, especially smokers, a new study shows.
The study, published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, used data from The California Men’s Health Study, which includes 84,170 men between 45 and 69 who are members of the Kaiser Permanente California health plan. Demographics and lifestyle characteristics were obtained through detailed surveys mailed to participants between 2000 and 2003. The participants were followed through the end of 2006, during which there were 210 cases of lung cancer.
MONDAY, Nov. 17 — That basic rule, “know thyself,” can help prevent a pleasant seaside vacation from turning into a skin cancer risk, Australian dermatologists report.
A detailed study of 88 Hawaii vacationers identified three groups of people with distinct characteristics and sun protection behaviors, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Dermatology by researchers at the University of Queensland:
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Rather than protecting against all breast cancers, high levels of soy food consumption appears to specifically reduce the risk of estrogen receptor (ER)-positive tumors and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative tumors, Japanese researchers report in the International Journal of Cancer.
Dr. Takeshi Suzuki, at Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute in Nagoya, and associates conducted a study of 678 women with breast cancer and 3,390 controls matched by age and menopausal status with no history of cancer.
- Red wine may reduce the risk of lung cancer in men, especially smokers, a new study shows.
The study, published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, used data from The California Men’s Health Study, which includes 84,170 men between 45 and 69 who are members of the Kaiser Permanente California health plan. Demographics and lifestyle characteristics were obtained through detailed surveys mailed to participants between 2000 and 2003. The participants were followed through the end of 2006, during which there were 210 cases of lung cancer.