Re: Natural Treatments for Prostate Cancer.(prostate cancer treatments)


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prostate cancer treatments,

Perhaps the best natural treatments for prostate cancer comes in the
form of prevention. In addition to contributing to your overall
health, there is evidence that a balanced diet can help prevent
prostate cancer. It's familiar advice, but limiting fats and
increasing your intake of fresh, green vegetables, whole grains and
fish may help protect you.

In the same vein, while obesity is believed to be a factor in
developing prostate cancer, the results are not conclusive, still
healthy nutrition and regular exercise can only increase your well
being. Furthermore, science suggests that excess weight may affect
levels of hormones associated with increased risk of prostate
cancer......need more information ???

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-prostate cancer treatments-

The best treatment for prostate cancer is not prevention. That's
pevention
for prostate cancer which is different from treatment. May seem like
a
small semantic thing, but it's a pretty fundamental and key
difference.

As for the other things you mentioned, most of that is loose or
circumstantial evidence. The only truly "prevention" for prostate
cancer
is
finasteride - and that really just reduces your risk (statistically
significant in a well controlled, large trial - unlike any of the
other
mentioned foods, etc). However, it was also shown that when diagnosed
with
prostate cancer on finasteride, you were at an increased risk for
higher
stage of cancer. Those results are available for your view based on
the
large multi-institutional PCPT (prostate cancer prevention trial).

The concerning thing about prostate cancer is that recent donor
studies
have
found prostate cancer in about a third of men from 50-60 and 12% of
those
around age 40.

It shows that if you look hard enough, it seems like the human male
live
with prostate cancer a good bit of his life. That does not mean that
knowing about it results in anything useful, only that it is there and
in
the past unknown and causing harm in only a few.

Agree completely. Having prostate cancer does not necessarily mean one's
life is in peril from dying of it. I think the surprising aspect of this
recent finding was that almost 1 in 8 men just over the age of 40 already
has some prostate cancer.

As tests get more sensitive, it looks like the human animal is going to
have cancer all his (her) life. The body just takes care of it. As for
prostate cancer, it may be that we have it all our lives too, or at least
all our adult lives. The real issue is why it breaks out later in life
and
that must be solved at the genetic level or perhaps as the result of
studies
of the immune system become more detailed. Surgery removes the tumor
load,
which may help some.

Depends. If the cancer has gone to the bones, lymph nodes, etc then
removing the prostate does nothing at all except open a patient up to the
complications of pelvic surgery.

But I know that's not what you're talking about. I think you and I agree
more on this topic than you realize.

There's 2 groups of people with prostate cancner - those that (without
treatment) would die of it and those that would die of something else. The
problem is this - we can't predict with any level of certainty who is who.
The D'Amico risk stratification and other such predictive models have gone
to great lengths to help here. But they're not perfect.

To me - and I'm far less "aggressive" than many in my field - the easy cases
are those with very aggressive cancers that appear, based on our best
imaging, to be localized to the prostate. Treatment in this group is
mandatory and potentially life saving. These patients are likely to die
from prostate cancer if left untreated. The less clear cases are those with
so called "intermediate" prostate cancer, although even here I think the
data is solid enough to advocate for treatment. The really muddied water is
the low risk prostate cancers. Here we are DEFINITELY overtreating people.
Two problems: #1) some patients hear "cancer" and can't imagine living
without treatment no matter how much you tell them it may be overkill and
#2) a percentage of these patients will live long enough to die of prostate
cancer.

I'm a big fan of active surveillance for the low risk guys. But that's
often a hard sell.


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