Month: August 2019

What could be better than searching for buried treasure for many years, then finally discovering it? The answer might be, finding buried treasure when you didn’t even know you were looking for it! In the world of prostate cancer, an unexpected treasure was discovered when a diabetes drug, metformin, appeared to have deterrent properties against keep reading

There are cancers you can personally detect before symptoms appear, and cancers that are hidden until you experience signs that something’s wrong.   Obvious cancers you can detect include skin cancers (e.g. change in a mole, sore that doesn’t heal) and lumps you can feel through skin (e.g. in the breast, throat, armpit or groin) keep reading

Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is like an ID tag for prostate cells. Each prostate cell, whether normal or cancerous, carries proteins (antigens) that can be “shed” into the bloodstream when some type of activity stimulates the prostate. Generally, the more constant the activity, the higher the level of PSA as measured by a simple blood keep reading