According to just-released figures from UK health authorities, prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer in England, having for the first time overtaken breast cancer in terms of prevalence in England, followed then by lung cancer at number 3, and bowel cancer at number 4. So is that good news? Or bad? I […]
An Australian study that reviewed the lifetime risk of 5 cancers came up with a conclusion that is pretty controversial. This study suggested that roughly 24 % of all cancer diagnoses in men are what you would call “over-diagnosed” while 18 % of caners in women fall into the same category, at least according to […]
According to the background to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, (American) national guidelines recommend that “men with prostate cancer eat a vegetable-rich diet”, to which I first have to say that I had no idea that there were such things as “national” guidelines, only guidelines issued by specific […]
Every male over 50 knows (or soon will know) that you never leave on a road trip without trying to learn the location of all the roadside rest stops. Either that, or only travel between towns that have a Starbucks outlet where you can always find a clean enough rest room (for most men, “clean […]
For all those who believe that acne is merely a cosmetic problem in adolescents, one that most kids should be able to handle with some over-the-counter meds, or, if necessary, one of the many prescription meds that can help control acne flare-ups, a recent fascinating prospective study published online in the International Journal of Cancer […]
A paper published a little while ago in Annals of Internal Medicine about PSA testing for prostate cancer (PC) garnered lots of glowing headlines because the researchers, who had re-analyzed several previous important studies on PSA testing, concluded that “PSA testing reduces the risk of dying from prostate cancer (PC)” by roughly 20 % or […]
According to statistics from the American Cancer Society, about 161,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, and about 26,700 men will die of prostate cancer. In other words, roughly one man in 7 diagnosed with prostate cancer will die from that malignancy. Or looked at it from the other end, 6 in […]