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Less lethal prostate cancer among those diagnosed with asthma

In a review of the Health Professionals Follow Up study (47,000 men) researchers found the proportion of subjects with lethal prostate cancer was 29% less among those who had been diagnosed with asthma...

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Demographic Factors Affecting Prostate Cancer Mortality

In a June 25, 2015 PLoS One paper [full text] Yao et al perform a regression of prostate cancer mortality (one point per county) using the following explanatory variables: Significant at 0.1% level: -...

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Blog updates for July 2015

August 1, 2015.  In PSADT Part 1 we add: PSA Doubling Time (PSADT) was found to be the most consistent of the top prognostic factors for a variety of endpoints (prostate cancer-specific survival,...

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Nutritional Supplements and Prostate Cancer

LITERATURE REVIEW A 2015 survey of nutritional approaches to prostate cancer published in BMC Medicine contains a table of approaches for which the authors found research. See table 1 in [Full Free...

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Blog Updates for September 2015

Sep 27, 2015. In Prostate Cancer Calculators we added: Date of Death The population.io web site asks for your birthday, country and gender and based on this input estimates what percentage of people in...

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Peto's Paradox

The larger an animal is the more cells it has and the longer lived an animal has the more time cells have to mutate so one would think that larger and longer lived animals would have more cancer;...

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From Pilot to System Solution

It seems that so much is known in medicine and health care that is not widely enough applied. The video below of the keynote talk by Dr. Danielle Martin at the Health Quality Transformation 2015...

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Blog Updates for Feburary 2016

Feb 25, 2016. In Prostate Cancer Calculators we added this calculator: Probability of Recurrence, Potency and Continence after Laprascopic (LRP) Surgery Based on 500 LRP surgery patients of Christopher...

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Blog Updates for March 2016

March 31. In Choosing a Surgeon - Part I. Considerations, Choosing a Surgeon - Part I we added: Incidentally it has also been found that it is also true that radiation at high volume centers have...

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Blog Updates for April 2016

Note to readers. The Palpable Prostate Blog has now published over 200 blog posts -- this post is number 201. April 30, 2016 in Metformin and protate cancer we added: A number of investigations have...

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Blog Updates for May 2016

June 3, 2016. In Metformin and Prostate Cancer we added: A May 2016 update by Sayyid and Fleshner [PMID: 27195314] [Full Free Text] reviews studies that show a decreased prostate cancer risk with...

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Brachytherapy problem

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Blog updates for July 2016

July 22, 2016. In Metformin and Prostate Cancer we added statin references: Other recent work suggests benefit from combination therapy of metformin with statins [PMC3329836 full free text], [news...

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Grape Seed Extract

This 2011 report on the VITAL study of 35,239 men found no effect on the development of prostate cancer for chondroitin, coenzyme Q10, fish oil, garlic, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, glucosamine or saw...

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Blog updates for September 2016

Oct 2, 2016. In Grape Seed Extract we add: Although the 62% reduction in prostate cancer among the high grape seed extract group is eye opening there is only one clinical trial on grape seed extract...

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2016 AUA Meeting

[Updated: December 2, 2015] >br /> Highlights of the 2016 American Urology Association (AUA) meeting have recently been published. [review] Key topics relating to prostate cancer included: -...

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The Rule of 72 and PSA Doubling Time

A common approximation used in finance is that an investment which grows at x% per year will double in roughly 72/x years.  It is known as the rule of 72. What is of interest here is that it not only...

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Female physicians, saunas

Female vs. Male Physicians In a recent study that Harvard researchers published in JAMA, it was found that patients over 65 years old had lower death rates and lower hospital re-admission rates if they...

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Finding freely available research articles

A new Firefox and Chrome browser extension creates a small button on the right side of the screen whenever you visit a journal article's web page. If it is green then it found the article freely and...

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Eat your carrots

A December 2014 Chinese meta-analysis of prior studies on carrot consumption and prostate cancer reported that while there were some inconsistent results it nevertheless found an inverse relationship,...

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Blog Updates for June 2017

June 6, 2017. In Metformin and Prostate Cancer we added: A June 2017 review paper by Whitburn et al on metformin and prostate cancer is available here:  [PMID: 28444639] [Full Free Text]

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Blog Updates for July 2017

July 14, 2017. The 2017 Miror Mirror report providing international comparisons of health care systems is out and freely available [here]. The Benchmarking line under Links in the right panel of this...

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Metformin and prostate cancer

[Updated April 1, 2018] A 2014 article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute by Azvolinksy [PMID: 24511112] [Full Free Text] and a 2014 article by Fleshner in the Canadian Urological...

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Blog Updates for April 2018

April 1, 2018. In Metformin and Prostate Cancer we added: Since then a 2016 paper found, in a cross sectional study of 326 cancer-free diabetic men, that metformin lowered PSA; however, in contrast...

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Blog Updates for July 2019

July 6, 2019. In Metformin and Prostate Cancer we added: A 2019 review and meta-analysis by Chinese researchers based on 30 research studies reported on between 2012 and 2017 concludes that metformin...

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