Prostate Cancer News: Risk Factors

5/27/2008 Vitamin D Status Not Associated With Lower Prostate Risk
But study finds evidence of slight link between higher concentrations, aggressive disease

5/22/2008 Lowering Cholesterol May Also Lower Prostate Cancer Risk
Statins, which lower cholesterol, also lower PSA levels, a warning sign of disease

5/20/08 New Analysis Boosts Drug's Prostate Cancer Value
The extensive re-analysis of the data showed that finasteride reduced a man's risk for developing prostate cancer by about 30 percent

5/15/08 Genes Play Part in Prostate Cancer Among Races
Whites at higher risk than Hispanics, but genetics determines who gets it

2/19/08 Physical Job Activity May Cut Prostate Cancer Risk
A continuous level of high physical effort may decrease the likelihood of a man developing prostate cancer

2/11/08 Studies Detect Slew of New Genes for Prostate Risk
Genetic tests based on the findings are a few years away

1/17/08 Higher Prostate Cancer Risk Tied to Severe Acne
Men who had used an antibiotic to treat svere acne for 4 years or longer were 1.7-times more likely than those who hadn't to develop prostate cancer

1/16/08 Gene Changes May Predict Prostate Cancer
Men with a gene variant from each of five chromosomal regions plus a family history were 9.5-times more likely to have prostate cancer than men without any of these factors

11/19/07 Obesity Raises Prostate Cancer Death Risk
Overweight or obese men twice as likely to die from the disease

10/4/2007 Prostate Cancer No Worse in African Americans
Prostate cancer tumors are not more aggressive in African-American men than in Caucasian men

9/4/2007 Asian Men More Likely to Survive Prostate Cancer
The reasons behind the better survival rates still unclear

8/23/2007 Cholesterol Drugs May Not Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk
Statin use found to have little impact on testosterone levels

6/14/2007 Black Men Underestimate Prostate Cancer Risk
Of men about to undergo biopsy for suspected prostate cancer, African American men were much more likely than whites to say there was no way they could have prostate cancer

6/13/2007 BRCA2 Mutation Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer
Data from the Icelandic Cancer Registry report that a specific BRCA2 gene mutation is strongly predictive of aggressive prostate cancer and greatly increased the risk of dying from prostate cancer

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