Prostate cancer

Prostate Cancer: Therapy may spread the disease

A standard treatment for prostate cancer may spread the disease to other parts of the body, a new study has suggested. more »

Prostate Cancer: You can beat it with a healthy diet, even if you have a genetic predisposition

Can we beat nature? The good news seems to be that we can. Even people with a genetic predisposition for a disease can reduce the risk with a healthy diet, researchers believe. more »

Prostate Cancer

The most common cancer in elderly men, prostate cancer depends on male hormones called androgens, particularly testosterone. The usual management of early disease is with surgery and/or radiotherapy.... more »

Prostate cancer - When doing nothing may be best

When doing nothing may be best Men diagnosed with high-grade prostate cancer could live up to 10 years with no intervention, according to new research. Patients diagnosed with these aggressive cancer... more »

PSA: is this a test that has had its day?

PSA: is this a test that has had its day? The prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test fails to recognise eight out of every 10 cases of prostate cancer. more »

Preventing prostate problems naturally

Although prostate cancer is ultimately inevitable if you live long enough, there are many ways to delay its onset or reduce its symptoms: more »

The problem with the psa test

The prostate is a walnut-sized organ that sits invisibly between the rectum and scrotum, close up against the bladder. It surrounds the urethra, more »

The terminator illness

Doctors sell prostate cancer patients on surgery as the only way to treat the disease once and for all, but evidence is mounting that, in a high percentage of surgery cases, the cancer soon comes back... more »

The hard statistics

Prostate cancer seems to be ultimately unavoidable. Autopsies of men who have died of other causes show that around 40 per cent of men over the age of 50 have prostate cancer. more »

The synergy of pc-spes

How does PC-Spes work? A number of laboratories have tackled the problem, testing the herbal formula on prostate cancer cell cultures and mice more »

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3 Nov 2009 | Lynne McTaggart - Wh... (jowddty)

The poisoned generation

Perhaps the most underappreciated health scandal in modern times is the fact that, every day, we are all subjected to some 80,000 drugs—virtually all of which have not undergone a single regulat... more »

23 Oct 2009 | Health from your Gar... (bshubbard)

Your good health is down to yo...

One thing is sure in this world:  only you can establish total wellness and health. Unless you want it, and are sufficiently motivated to gain it and keep it, no amount of outside support will su... more »

1 Oct 2009 | Lynne McTaggart - Wh... (jowddty)

DNA: it's not destiny

When we become ill, most of us lay the blame at the feet of our ancestors: my heart problem is like dad’s, who had a dicky ticker; I’m likely to get breast cancer because it’s what m... more »

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23:36 | Health Conditions (KiwiGal)

Re: Lung Cancer

Thank you for replying, Talia. And you are right in that it wasn't necessary for me to focus on her statement that her friend was highly intelligent (even though he had 7 chances in 8 that his can... more »

17:57 | Health Conditions (meike)

Re: eczema

You have to remember with excema, it is not the skin that is the problem, but the fact that your immune system (fight anmd flight mechanism) is overproducing anti-bodies or histamines. these erupt fro... more »

15:34 | Health Conditions (talia)

Re: Lung Cancer

Kiwigal, you are right, there was no specific question, but I sensed that some help and advice was being asked for and yours, being the first, gave a rather negative and slightly unenlightening r... more »

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