Prostate News Archive
20-Feb-2011
Study: Prostate Cancer Imaging Scans Often Unnecessary
Thousands of men with low-risk prostate cancer are undergoing unnecessary and expensive imaging tests, while thousands of men with high-risk disease who should get the tests are not. Can Pomegranate Pills Fight Prostate Cancer?
Title: Can Pomegranate Pills Fight prostate Cancer? Category: Health News Created: 2/18/2011 11:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 2/18/2011 11:00:13 AM Prostate Cancer: A Stealthy Killer
MORE HEALTH NEWS Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and the second-leading cause of cancer deaths among U.S. men, after lung cancer. In 2007, the latest year for which statistics are available, 223,307 new cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed in the U.S., and 29,093 men died of the disease. Can early baldness signal elevated prostate cancer risk?
According to a study was published in the Oxford Journals Annals of Oncology, men who experienced androgenic alopecia, or male pattern baldness, by the age of 20 were at an increased risk for prostate cancer later in their lives. The male hormone, androgen, might play an important role in developing both prostate cancer and male pattern baldness, or adrogenic alopecia. Could Hair Loss at 20 Signal Higher Prostate Cancer Risk?
Title: Could Hair Loss at 20 Signal Higher prostate Cancer Risk? Category: Health News Created: 2/15/2011 10:05:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 2/16/2011
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