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To: allmendream

“...all men past a certain age either die of or are going to die with prostate cancer- I guess all men are hateful - past a particular age - and particularly in our testicles.”

Prostate cancer has nothing to do with testicles. It may have a lot to do with phytoestrogens in the diet today.


105 posted on 06/11/2012 10:15:28 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders.)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
It may, but most likely not.

Those who think diet and/or industrialization is a major cause of cancer point to less cancer in the developing or undeveloped world. But when you look you find that far from being less likely to get cancer - they are simply more likely to die young of other causes and more likely to die of cancer without it being diagnosed.

http://www.everydayhealth.com/prostate-cancer/0131/2200-year-old-mummy-diagnosed-with-prostate-cancer.aspx

This Egyptian mummy had to wait a few thousand years for his diagnosis.

Do you wonder why some tissues are much more susceptible to cancer than others? Do you think dietary absorbed toxins are more likely to be deposited in such tissues - or is it that over time the constant cellular division of these tissues causes somatic mutations?

Whatever your belief about diet and toxins or phytoestrogens - it would be impossible to deny that tissues that undergo constant cellular replication during lifetime are much more prone to cancer than those tissues that do not.

The prostate, for example, is constantly undergoing cellular replication - and as men age - they are more likely to develop cancer of the prostate.

108 posted on 06/12/2012 6:52:34 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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