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Green Tea Slows The Progression Of Prostate Cancer
by eNotAlone.com
Green tea appears to slow the progression of prostate cancer, researchers reported on Friday. Men with the disease who consumed the active compounds found in green tea, showed lower levels of protein that tumors use to grow, a U.S. study found.

Prostate Drug Flomax Is Dangerous For Cataract Patients
by eNotAlone.com
Flomax (tamsulosin), a drug that is commonly used by men to treat their prostate problems, is linked to more than a double risk for serious complications following cataract surgery, indicates new study by Canadian scientists

Folic Acid Increases The Risk Of Prostate Cancer
by eNotAlone.com
A new 10-year study by scientists at the University of Southern California (USC), revealed that men who have been taking 1 mg of folic acid supplements on a daily basis, increased their chance of developing prostate cancer.

New Test May Help Better Treat Prostate Cancer
by eNotAlone.com
A new test that looks for tumor cells in the blood may give doctors a better opportunity to figure out whether chemotherapy is helping a prostate cancer patients, researchers reported this week.

Prostate Problems : Symptoms and Treatments
by National Institute on Aging
It's true that prostate problems are very common after age 50. And the older men get, the more likely they are to have such problems. Most prostate problems are not cancer. Still, prostate cancer does affect a lot of men.

Prostate Cancer: Treating the Disease
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Armed with diagnostic data, patients and their doctors must then decide on a treatment course. It is at this point that patients must be well educated, says FDA's Fourcroy. 'The decisions made [on treatment] are so crucial and will have such an effect on

Prostate Cancer: Detecting
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
While the disease can strike any man, younger men at increased risk include African Americans, who have double the risk and death rate of white men and often are stricken before age 50. Men with a family link to prostate cancer through brothers or fathers

New Prostate Cancer Tests Create Treatment Dilemmas
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Prostrate Cancer will strike about 200,000 American men and kill about 38,000 this year alone, according to the American Cancer Society. FDA recently approved a test to improve early diagnosis.

How the Urinary Tract Works
Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer
by Janet Farrar Worthington, Patrick C. Walsh, M.D.
The kidneys are the body's main filters. With each heartbeat, they cleanse the blood of toxic wastes, excess water and salts, and (among many other chores) help maintain the body's balance of fluids and minerals. With more than a million tiny, wadded-up

The Prostate's Strategic Location
Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer
by Janet Farrar Worthington, Patrick C. Walsh, M.D.
Welcome to Grand Central Station-the prostate, the bustling, walnut-sized hub at the crossroads of a man's urinary and reproductive tracts. What makes such a small, relatively obscure gland so important to men? The answer is not immediately obvious

What the prostate does
Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer
by Janet Farrar Worthington, Patrick C. Walsh, M.D.
What is the prostate? The prostate is a small, and probably expendable, organ. Men can live quite comfortably without it. The prostate's biggest job, as far as we know, is to provide part of the fluid that makes up semen.

A Nutritional Disease
The Prostate Cancer Protection Plan : The Foods, Supplements, and Drugs that Can Combat Prostate Cancer
by Robert Arnot, M.D.
Men in Japan and China have up to 90 percent less prostate cancer than American men. That's an astounding statistic. Ninety percent! Most men I talk to are at first surprised at the huge disparity. Their second reaction is to sort of shrug and say

Advice & Discussions
talking on cell phone give you cancer?
I just got off my cell phone with my girlfriend. Well really that's the only phone I use. I don't have a landline phone and don't need one. Both my mom and my girlfriend have told me that it's not good to talk on the cell phone because it can give you brain cancer.
the cancer lurks unseen.
I thought I'd come so far, My love. As easily as we fell into this I just assumed my mind would do the same; Fall in love for real and the rest is history. But it's still here, Whatever's wrong- With me, that is. The higher road, the better road..
Italian Doctor claims to have cured Cancer
You won't believe what with. It's so simple. He has supposedly cured over 100 cases with this method, but his research is being regected by the medical industry. link
Im scared that I might have cancer.
I just turned 20, I have had testicle pain for about 6 months now. Early on, about a month of feeling discomfort I went to the docter. He said that I have epididymitis, he sounded very confident that he knew what he was talking about. He gave me 2 weeks of antibiotics.
Can you get mouth cancer from giving oral sex?
So this guy who's in his 50+ tells me he got some type of mouth cancer from giving oral sex on women back when he was younger. Said that it could have prevented if all of the women he went down on got HPV shots(or something to that effect). He doesn't know who he got it from and he cautions me to watch where I stick my tongue.

   

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