protecting your prostate

[Michaelangelica]

Why A Common Treatment For Prostate Cancer Ultimately Fails

ScienceDaily (Aug. 22, 2008) — Some of the drugs given to many men during their fight against prostate cancer can actually spur some cancer cells to grow, researchers have found.

Why A Common Treatment For Prostate Cancer Ultimately Fails
A Urologist friend also takes his patients off any herbs that may have an androgenic activity
You can check which herbs do at Duke's Data Base.

[Michaelangelica]

Your Cough Medicine May Treat Prostate Cancer

A study published today in Anticancer Research demonstrates that an ingredient used in a common cough suppressant may be useful in treating advanced prostate cancer. Researchers found that noscapine, which has been used in cough medication for nearly 50 years, reduced tumor growth in mice by 60% and limited the spread of tumors by 65% without causing harmful side effects.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the United States. The American Cancer Society estimates that 186,320 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008 and 28,660 will die from it. One man in 6 will get prostate cancer during his lifetime. Although slow-growing in most men, the cancer is considered advanced when it spreads beyond the prostate. There is no known cure.

The laboratory study was a joint effort by Dr. Israel Barken of the Prostate Cancer Research and Educational Foundation, Moshe Rogosnitzky of MedInsight Research Institute, and Dr. Jack Geller of The University of California San Diego. Noscapine has previously been studied as a treatment for breast, ovarian, colon, lung and brain cancer and for various lymphomas, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and melanoma. This study, however, is the first to demonstrate its effectiveness in treating prostate cancer.

Noscapine is a naturally-occurring substance, a non-addictive derivative of opium. As a natural substance, noscapine cannot be patented, which has limited the potential for clinical trials. Rogosnitzky notes that drug companies are generally unwilling to underwrite expensive clinical trials without being able to recoup their investment. A synthetic derivative of noscapine has been patented but has not yet reached the clinical testing phase.

Your Cough Medicine May Treat Prostate Cancer

Also check out these articles
http://prostateruminate.com/2008/12/...cer-treatment/

http://www.prostate-report.org/__nos...ate_cancer.php

[Jay-qu]

I heard that evening primrose oil is good for protecting your prostate.

[interval]

Mediterranean Diet protect prostate and your general health.

The healthy Mediterranean diet teaches the individual to eat right. In order to live healthy like these people it is best to engage in some form of physical activity to be able to burn those extra calories. A few simple examples could be brisk walking, jogging and running.

The Mediterranean Diet involves eating food in large, moderate and small quantities.

• Large - Daily level. The person should eat a lot of food such as beans, bread, cereals, fruits, grains and nuts since these contain minerals, nutrients and vitamins good for the body. Not too much cheese, milk and yogurt.
• Moderate - Weekly level. The individual can have fish, unskinned poultry, eggs and few sweets since this way will prevent consumption of other things that are high fat saturated.
• Small - Monthly level. The products that should be consumed lightly is red meat such as pork and beef, which can be done 1 - 2 times in a month.

[Michaelangelica]

New drug targets prostate cancer
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Head of the Burnet Institute’s Cancer Immunotherapy Laboratory, Associate Professor Pei Xiang Xing said his group has produced a monoclonal antibody to a unique tumour marker for the treatment of prostate cancer.
The monoclonal antibody is directed at cancer-producing cells carrying the specific molecule known as PIM-1, which is responsible for cell survival, proliferation and differentiation.
Over-expression of PIM-1 plays a critical role in the development, progression and metastasis of prostate cancer and other cancers such as leukaemia. The monoclonal antibody significantly inhibited cancer cell growth when used in laboratory models of prostate cancer.

New drug targets prostate cancer(ScienceAlert)

[Michaelangelica]

Discovery could lead to urine test for prostate cancer

Posted Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:41pm AEDT

Researchers in the United States say they have made a discovery that could allow doctors to use a simple urine test to identity life threatening prostate cancer.

Up to a third of middle aged men are thought to have traces of cancer in their prostate.

But in most cases, it is harmless. Some though, have a malignant form which kills tens of thousands of men each year.

Unfortunately current screening tests cannot distinguish between the two.
Now however, the searches have identified a molecule that is found in high levels in the malignant form of the disease.

Discovery could lead to urine test for prostate cancer - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Jay-qu
On Evening primrose
I found this,
Fatty acids in foods and their health implications
By Ching Kuang Chow
which would be great to get hold of.

and this
it is on flaxseed but is worth reading in full
Flaxseed Oil/Prostate Cancer

• ALA is deficient in the diets of most people in affluent societies. Its intake has decreased to less than 20% of what was present in common diets 150 years ago, mainly due to decreased use because of its fragility.
  . . .
• The Cause of the Increase in Prostate Cancer: Research Authors of published studies have suggested several possibilities to explain the correlation of ALA with prostate cancer.
  
• These include:
  
• 1. Oxidation products of ALA formed during cooking of meat;
  
• 2. Damage done to ALA molecules during processing;
  
• 3. Low ratio of LA: ALA (too little LA, which leads to breakdown of immune system function and therefore to increased cancer growth;
  
• 4. Lack of balancing molecules such as phytosterols and antioxidants, which are found in seeds, but are removed or damaged during processing and cooking practices;
  
• 5. Free radical formation from fatty acid oxidation.
  
• 6. ALA-based free radicals (resulting from processing) that can damage genetic material (DNA) and lead to tumor formation;
  
• 7. Decrease in the level of antioxidants, because they are used up to deal with ALA-based free radicals produced in the body;
  
• 8. Alterations in eicosanoid synthesis;
  
• 9. Changes in cell membrane composition, affecting permeability and receptor activity;
  
• 10. Interference with 5-alpha-reductase activity;
  
• 11. EFAs may increase steroid hormone production that is important in androgen sensitive growth. (Actually, EFAs decrease steroid hormones. Apparently they make hormones work better, and therefore smaller amounts of hormones are needed to get their normal job done

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N-6: omega-6 fatty acids include

1. LA (linoleic acid; abundant in safflower, sunflower, and corn; present in medium quantities in soybean, sesame, pumpkin seed, and almond; present in small quantities in canola, peanut, and olive); given enough LA to start with, the body converts LA into GLA, DGLA, and AA in various tissues, according to need;

2. GLA (gamma-linolenic acid; present in evening primrose oil);

Have you seen anything else. this article is not exacly glowing in its recommendation
Flaxseed Oil/Prostate Cancer
also,
this article is worth reading. Selenium is rare in Australian soils and it is only available with a prescription; although I noticed a multi-vitamin with a few micrograms in it the other day. The best natural source is/are Brazil nuts.

SELENIUM & PROSTATE CANCER

Key points:

* Eskimo/Inuit men in Greenland have the among the highest Se and omega-3 fatty acid intakes in the world (resulting in blood plasma Se levels commonly around 2000 µg/l, compared with South Australian levels of around 100 µg/l), and the lowest prostate cancer rates (whether early [microfocal] or advanced prostate cancer) in the world (Dewailly et al, 2003).
* Se’s strongest anti-cancer effect in the US Nutritional Prevention of Cancer Trial was against prostate cancer, where a 52% reduction in incidence was observed (Duffield-Lillico et al, 2002).

[Michaelangelica]

Better Beer: College Team Creating Anticancer Brew

ScienceDaily (Oct. 17, 2008) — College students often spend their free time thinking about beer, but a group of Rice University students are taking it to the next level. They're using genetic engineering to create beer that contains resveratrol, a chemical in wine that's been shown to reduce cancer and heart disease in lab animals.


Rice's "BioBeer" will be entered in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition Nov. 8-9 in Cambridge, Mass. It's the world's largest synthetic biology competition, a contest where teams use a standard toolkit of DNA building blocks -- think genetic LEGO blocks -- to create living organisms that do odd things.

Better Beer: College Team Creating Anticancer Brew

[Michaelangelica]

September 7, 2009 | 10 comments
Retrovirus Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer
Possibly joining the ranks of virus-linked cancers, virulent prostate cancers have shown a common thread: the XMRV gammaretrovirus
By Katherine Harmon

The cause of prostate cancer, which infects one in six U.S. men in their lifetimes, has long eluded researchers. A new study presents a convincing argument that prostate cancer, like some other cancers, including cervical cancer, lymphoma and sarcomas, might be linked to a virus.

Researchers, reporting in a study that will be published online tomorrow in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that the retrovirus xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) was present in about a quarter of cancerous prostate cells—and just 6 percent of control cells, which suggests a possible relationship. Additionally, "the virus is more likely to be present the more aggressive the prostate cancer is," says Ila Singh, a co-author of the study and an associate professor in pathology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Retrovirus Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer: Scientific American

[Larv]

Protecting your prostate is a good idea, but it's not the only thing down there that needs protection:
(WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE THAT BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME PEOPLE)

YouTube - Chinese Guy is WHIPPED!

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

Better Beer: College Team Creating Anticancer Brew

Hmmm, now if they can just add THC to the brew it will help you live longer and happier!