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Capsaicin, the compound that gives red pepper its heat, could stop the spread of prostate cancer, claims a new study. Red chilli pepper has previously been linked to inhibiting the growth of pancreatic cancer cells, and has been suggested to cut fat and energy intake when added to the diet. “We show that capsaicin has a profound inhibiting effect on the growth of prostate cancer cells in vitro and in vivo , inducing apoptosis [programmed cell death] of prostate cancer cell lines,” wrote lead author Akio Mori from the University of California, Los Angeles. The new study, published in the...

Ladies, if you love your man, give him cauliflower curry with a side of kale for dinner. It may stave off prostate cancer, according to research released yesterday by Rutgers University. Though they don't often make the favorite menus of most men, cauliflower and kale -- along with cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, watercress and turnips -- contain a chemical that is a significant cancer-preventive.

A new Israeli company appears to have found a natural, safe and effective relief for a widespread, but often hushed up, ailment: enlargement of the prostate. In recent clinical trials, a remedy derived from indigenous Israeli plants were comparable to those of conventional pharmaceuticals and better than those associated with current natural remedies. Of equal significance, the remedy - called Naturamed Bio Active (Nabia) - caused no side effects whatsoever. Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH), the non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate gland, affects nearly 50 percent of men over the age of 60 and 80 percent of those 80 and above....

Hi friends. Please submit two individuals to your prayer list and prayer chains: "Rich" and "Dot", (my nicknames for them); my father-in-law and mother-in-law. Both are in their 70s.Rich is in intensive care; he's got clots in his heart and legs, beginning of cirrosis of the liver (he rarely drinks!) and a weird "spot" on his colon. The doc says Rich's prognosis is very serious, but treatable. Pray, too (and most importantly) for Rich to turn his heart fully to God. He's been distant, probably non-believing, for most of his life. His father became a cultist and left the family...

I have read that doctors were hoping to find the genes that causes many prostate cancers, in ten years or so. And when they do, researchers could possibly make rapid gains. However, by luck, they stumbled on them now, saving 10 years of work. They said this is a very important step that "could lead to more effective treatments and possibly a cure." This is good news that should give many hope. Lately scientists and cancer researchers seem to be making rapid gains in cervical and breast cancers. Let's pray that this news will lead to some real gains for...

Prostate cancer developed in 20 men within months to a few years after they began testosterone supplementation to correct a deficiency of the hormone, investigators report. "There are several anecdotal case reports, small studies, and observational studies like ours which raise concern but do not provide conclusive evidence yet," Dr. Franklin D. Gaylis told Reuters Health. The issue is a concern because prostate cancer is usually driven by testosterone. Gaylis, from the University of California at San Diego Medical Center, and colleagues report this series of patients "in whom clinically significant prostate cancer developed and was presumed to be related...

CAROTENOIDS MAY PROTECT AGAINST PROSTATE CANCER   Asians are well known to have a low incidence of prostate cancer. Australian and Chinese researchers conducted what is called a "case-control study" in southeast China, the first of its kind in an Asian population. They discovered that dietary lycopene and other carotenoids may protect against prostate cancer.   The researchers compared 130 patients with adenocarcinoma of the prostate to 274 controls - men who were in the hospital for conditions other than prostate cancer. They found that the more carotenoid-rich foods the men ate, the less their risk of developing prostate cancer....

<p>New Delhi, April 29: Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences today said they performed the country’s first robotic surgery for prostate cancer. Escorts is following suit, with a workshop on robot-assisted uro-surgery on Saturday.</p> <p>AIIMS doctors said a 62-year-old man underwent the surgery, that lasted two hours and 10 minutes. Dr A.K. Hemal, professor at the AIIMS department of urology, carried out the surgery.</p>

An experimental treatment tripled the survival rate of men with advanced prostate cancer in a clinical trial, doctors said yesterday, a result they said represents perhaps the first significant success for therapies known as cancer vaccines. The treatment, developed by Dendreon, a Seattle biotechnology company, is called a vaccine not because it prevents disease but because it tries to harness the body's own immune system to fight cancer after the disease has developed. Many such cancer vaccines have failed in clinical trials and none have reached the market in the United States. But Dendreon's treatment, called Provenge, now seems to...

VITAL SIGNS Obesity appears to skew the results of the most common test used to detect prostate cancer, a study released yesterday concluded. According to the study, which was released online and will be published in March in the journal Cancer, earlier research has shown that obese men have a lower survival rate for prostate cancer and that their cancer tends to be diagnosed in more advanced forms. The researchers, led by Dr. Ian Thompson of the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, wondered whether obesity might in some way throw off the results of testing for...

For the more than 230,000 men who develop prostate cancer annually in the US, there's hopeful news - a revolutionary type of photodynamic therapy developed in Israel has shown great promise - and could eventually be used to treat a myriad of other cancers as well.

Never listen to radio news while lurking in FR. I half-heard a story about a hospital that banned yellow LiveStrong wristbands popularized by cyclist Lance Armstrong. (Proceeds from sale of the wristbands benefit the Lance Armstrong Foundation.) According to the news reader, the wristbands are a problem because "yellow is the color that means a 'Do Not Recuscitate' order". I had to do quite a bit of searching to find the original story in the St. Petersburg Times. Excerpts: ...The hospitals, all associated with BayCare Health Systems, use the same color codes. Purple means the patient is at risk of...

LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have discovered a new way to improve the effectiveness of drugs used to treat prostate cancer. Researchers at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford found that blocking the action of a gene called IGF1R makes prostate cancer cells more sensitive to radiotherapy and certain chemotherapy treatments. "This is the first study to show that silencing the IGF1R gene can improve the effectiveness treatments for prostate cancer," Dr Val Macaulay, who headed the research team, said on Friday. Prostate is one of the most common cancers in men. Each year 543,000 new cases are...

(Senator Kerry:)"THE CANCER, frankly, was -- it's strange. I think it's a reflection of the experience that I went through in Vietnam, that I didn't feel particularly threatened. That I felt: `I'm going to conquer this.'"And it's why I had a confidence that I could run for president, even trying to do it. Now, in honesty, I remember sitting there through Christmas [2002], surfing through the Internet, trying to read -- get some books and figure out every alternative that there was and think through what it meant to me and what my options were with respect to it. ....

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) suffers from a chronic prostate infection and has refused to have a biopsy to rule out any chance he has cancer, an Iraqi official said in an interview Thursday on Al-Jazeera television. X-rays and blood tests carried out by U.S. military doctors did not show anything more serious than the infection and Saddam seemed to be in good health otherwise, Iraqi Human Rights Minister Bakhtiar Amin said. He said blood tests came back negative for cancer, but officials wanted to take a biopsy to be safe. Chronic prostate...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Sexual activity does not cause prostate cancer, and men who ejaculate frequently may even be protecting themselves against the disease, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. The study, which involved more than 29,000 healthy men and covered sex of all kinds including masturbation and nocturnal emissions, confirms a smaller Australian study from last July that reached similar conclusions, the authors said. Most of the previous research into the question was on whether sexual frequency caused prostate cancer, on the theory that increased production of the male hormone testosterone could prompt prostate cell growth, the study's chief author, Michael...

BOSTON - The widely used PSA blood test, designed to detect early signs of prostate cancer, misses 82% of tumors in men younger than 60, a new study found. In men older than 60, the prostate-specific antigen test missed 65% of cancers, today's New England Journal of Medicine reports. Harvard School of Public Health researchers recommended lowering the level of PSA test results considered to be "healthy." The American Cancer Society says a PSA level above 4 but less than 10 indicates a 25% chance of having prostate cancer. If the level goes above 10, the cancer risk is more...

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCERhttp://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/130669_cancer14.html Health And Science: Prostate-cancer risk skyrockets for smokersPuffing can lead to most life-threatening form of the diseaseMonday, July 14, 2003By MARY VUONGSEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTERLongtime, frequent smokers significantly increase their risk of prostate cancer, Seattle researchers have found.Middle-aged men who smoke a pack a day for 40 years increase their risk for prostate cancer by 60 percent. They're twice as likely to suffer an aggressive form of the cancer.Even those who haven't smoked that long face, on average, a 40 percent higher risk of prostate cancer, according to the study. The study adds weight to previous findings that link...

Experts estimate dogs' sense of smell is 1,000 to 100,000 times more sensitive than humans'.   Dog Doctors Training Dogs to Detect Prostate Cancer With Their Noses By Amanda Onion June 11 — Dogs could soon become man's best friend when it comes to detecting prostate cancer if new research plans are successful. <! -- begin print page / send page box --> Researchers at Cambridge University Veterinary School in England are awaiting funding to test the viability of what they call "dognoseis" — detecting the traces of prostate cancer by training dogs to smell signatures of the disease...