What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe prostate is a walnut-sized organ that sits invisibly between the rectum and scrotum, close up against the bladder. It surrounds the urethra,
How does PC-Spes work? A number of laboratories have tackled the problem, testing the herbal formula on prostate cancer cell cultures and mice
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.
Radiation is a popular treatment for men with prostate cancer, and it's becoming the first choice therapy ahead of surgery, especially among older patients. Latest statistics suggest it is being used in 17 per cent of all cases, a figure that's been...
If you're a man aged 70 who's just been diagnosed with prostate cancer, what should you do? The answer is 'nothing' - and our opinion, which we've held for years, has finally been vindicated in new research findings. Prostate cancer is a very slow...
It’s true to say that most men die with prostate cancer rather than from it. It’s now the most prevalent cancer in men, having overtaken lung cancer, but it’s also one of the most benign. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the...
Finasteride is a drug hailed as the great new hope to combat prostate cancer. And its standing won’t have been dented by a major new study that concluded that the drug can, indeed, prevent or at least slow the cancer. The Prostate Cancer...
Men who’ve been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer are faced with a difficult choice: do you undergo radical surgery immediately, or do you wait until the symptoms worsen, a strategy known as watchful waiting? Doctors often fail to point out...
Q: I was diagnosed with prostate cancer several years ago, and had treatments initially with radiotherapy and then with a drug called Zoladex. Zoladex is meant to prevent a recurrence of cancer
Re ‘Drugs for prostate cancer’ (WDDTY vol 16 no 1, page 7), a recent study revealed that vitamin D could cut a man’s risk of prostate by almost half. Researchers in Boston analysed blood samples and found that those containing the highest levels of...
