Tag: cancer

Guadeloupe, a small Caribbean island, has the highest prostate cancer incidence in the world, more than double the U.S. rate. Statistics like that aren't just trivia; they point toward causes. Pulled together by the World Cancer Research Fund, the global data keeps landing on the same message: excess body fat and poor diet raise risk, and healthier habits can lower it. keep reading

Your gut biome does more than aid digestion—it could influence your risk of cancer and your body’s response to treatment. Discover how trillions of microscopic organisms in your gut may be quietly shaping your prostate health—and what you can do to support them. keep reading

For years, studies hinted that metformin—a common diabetes drug—might help slow prostate cancer. But new results from the MAST trial show otherwise. Among men on Active Surveillance, metformin did not prevent disease progression compared to placebo, and side effects were more common. keep reading

The news about the power of exercise against cancer just keeps getting better. Two new studies reinforce evidence that working out plays an important role in helping prevent aggressive cancer, and helping to keep it from advancing further. Muscle strength, cardiac fitness and cancer First, in Jan. 2025 the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) keep reading

UPDATE: 7/22/2024 Originally written 2/25/2019 Before jumping on the fenbendazole (FZ) bandwagon, here’s an important update to the 2019 blog below. True, this de-worming agent for dogs has been showing anti-tumor properties in lab and mouse testing against cell lines in prostate cancer (PCa)[i], ovarian cancer[ii], breast cancer[iii] and others. Thus far, however, getting the keep reading

Dr. Mark Scholz (Prostate Cancer Research Institute) is a respected authority on prostate cancer (PCa). Many patients subscribe to the PCRI youtube channel where he responds to questions his viewers post at his channel. Since he is an oncologist, the questions he’s asked often refer to advanced or metastatic PCa. Sometimes, though, he addresses topics keep reading

Within the last 30 years, attention has been drawn to the relationship between aspirin use, cancer development, and cancer survival. I have posted several blogs on this topic, the most recent of which reported on prevention of colorectal and other gastrointestinal cancers. Now, JAMA has published a thorough analysis of data gathered by the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial... keep reading

Don’t read this blog if any of these statements describes you: • You don’t care if you ever get cancer • You don’t care about great health when you age • You don’t believe your lifestyle affects how long you live. In other words, if you’re a fatalist, this blog is not for you. A keep reading

Differences between male and female are both debated and celebrated. The Bottle Rockets sang, “Now everybody knows there’s a difference/Between a woman and a man.” John Gray’s book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus quickly soared to bestseller status. And the French immortalized the declaration vive la difference! (long live the difference!) For keep reading

Because of my interest in immunotherapy, especially in conjunction with focal treatment of prostate cancer, I investigated claims that naltrexone (a drug approved for treatment of alcohol or opioid1 dependency) can normalize the immune system when taken in subtherapeutic (low) doses. keep reading