Blood Tests May Someday Identify Prostate Cancer!

"Tumors that spread, or metastasize, in the body shed cells into blood that doctors can scrutinize for insights into what a patient’s cancer might do. Analyzing these so-called circulating tumor cells (CTCs) isn’t part of routine care yet, in part because they’re so hard to pick out of the millions of normal cells in a blood sample." Read more...

New blood test may someday help guide the best treatment for aggressive prostate cancer .
Posted August 01, 2018.Charlie Schmidt .Harvard Medical School Annual Report on Prostate Diseases.

Vitamin D Deficiency May Predict Aggressive Prostate Cancer!

 

“Vitamin D deficiency may predict aggressive prostate cancer,”

 NU study links low Vitamin D levels to aggressive prostate cancer. Chicago Sun Times. http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/nu-study-links-low-vitamin-d-levels-to-aggressive-prostate-cancer/

Vegan Diets May Reduce Risk for Prostate Cancer!

 

Dr Mitrou talks of the World Cancer Research Fund’s aims, and how research they recently funded found that a vegan diet may reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

New research shows vegan diets could reduce prostate cancer risk.  Dr Panagiota Mitrou. BioMed Central. March 22, 2016. http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-medicine/2016/03/22/new-research-shows-vegan-diets-reduce-prostate-cancer-risk/