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Vitamin E pills linked with prostate cancer risk (AP)

October 12th, 2011 | Author: admin

In this Monday, Oct. 10, 2011 photo, Joe Latina, 71, is shown on his porch at his home in Ashtabula, Ohio. Latina participated in a study involving vitamin E pills. Vitamin E pills are linked with an increased risk for prostate cancer, according to follow-up data from a study aiming to see if the supplements could prevent the disease but halted when there were signs of possible harm. Men who had been randomly assigned to take vitamin E were 17 percent more likely to get prostate cancer than those given dummy pills, the follow-up report found. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP – There is more evidence that taking vitamin E pills can be risky. A study that followed up on men who took high doses of the vitamin for about five years found they had a slightly increased risk of prostate cancer — even after they quit taking the pills.


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New prostate cancer test advice overturns dogma (AP)

October 7th, 2011 | Author: admin

In this Sept. 13, 2011 photo provided by the University of Chicago Medical Center, Dr. Gautam Jayram assists during prostate cancer surgery, watching an internal video of the patient’s body, at the University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago. No major medical group recommends routine PSA (prostate-specific antigen) blood tests to check men for prostate cancer, and now a government panel is saying they do more harm than good and healthy men should no longer receive the tests as part of routine cancer screening. The recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, being made public on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 will not come as a surprise to cancer specialists. The task force concluded there's little if any mortality benefit. But there is harm from routine screening: impotence, incontinence, infections, even death that can come from the biopsies, surgery and radiation, according to Dr. Virginia Moyer of the Baylor College of Medicine, who heads the task force. (AP Photo/University of Chicago Medical Center, Bruce Powell)AP – Men finally may be getting a clearer message about undergoing PSA screening for prostate cancer: Don’t do it.


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Panel advises against prostate cancer screening (AP)

October 6th, 2011 | Author: admin

AP – Those PSA blood tests that check for prostate cancer do more harm than good and healthy men should no longer receive them as part of routine cancer screening, a government panel is recommending.

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Lavin will be treated for prostate cancer

April 8th, 2011 | Author: admin

St. John’s coach Steve Lavin, who in his debut season guided the Red Storm to its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2002, is being treated for early-stage prostate cancer. The 46-year-old’s doctors are describing it as “low-grade” and treatment is not expected to prevent him from performing any of his coaching duties.

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Actor Dennis Hopper dead at 74 after prostate cancer battle

May 29th, 2010 | Author: admin

Dennis Hopper, the hard-living Hollywood icon who directed and starred in the classic “Easy Rider” before sobering up for an acclaimed second act in a remarkable career, died Saturday.

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Cancer society casts more doubt on prostate tests (AP)

March 4th, 2010 | Author: admin

Graphic shows incidence rates for prostate cancer between 1975 and 2006 and highest death rates from prostate cancer by race between 2001 andAP – Months after experts discounted the importance of routine mammograms and Pap smears for many women, the American Cancer Society is warning more explicitly than ever that regular testing for prostate cancer is of questionable value too, and can do men more harm than good.


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