Prostate Cancer Causes And Risk Factors – Some Interesting Revelations You Didn’t Know About

If the knowledge that is currently available to the medical and scientific research community at this time is anything to go by, that is no such thing as a specific prostate cancer cause because the mechanisms that lead to the development of the disease are still unknown.

However several risk factors have been identified that increase the chances of developing the disease. For instance, the risk of a man developing prostate cancer has now related to his age, genetics, race, diet, lifestyle, medications, and other factors that may vary based on location of something.

AGE: The primary risk factor for prostate cancer is however is the age the person in question. Prostate cancer is uncommon in men less than 45, but becomes more common with advancing age. Specifically, only about one in 10,000 men under age 45 are ever diagnosed with the disease, while about 65% of men that make it over 65 years old will be diagnosed with the disease. According to the American Cancer Society, the average age at the time of diagnosis is 70.

GENETICS: Second on the list, genetics certainly contributes to prostate cancer risk. For instance, a man who has a close (blood) relative who has been diagnosed with the disease in the past has been determined to have twice as much risk of developing the adenocarcinoma as a man who has never had anyone in his family diagnosed with the disease. The risk likewise increases arithmetically as more people in the same family are diagnosed with the disease.

AFRICAN AMERICANS: In the United States African American men as twice more likely to develop prostate cancer than men of almost any other race in the country. Asiatic men, according to the ACS have the lowest rate of prostate cancer in the country, while Hispanics follow closely. Whites are situated somewhere in between, sealing the argument in favor of race being contributory as a factor of prostate cancer incidence.

DIET as a prostate cancer risk factor is getting ever more prominent. Various foods have been implicated as causal factors for the disease, while others have been outlined as reducing the risk of prostate cancer by substantial percentages.

Low intake of vitamins and high intake of processed foods; high fat diets and red meat; and the consumption of dairy products to which vitamin A palmitate has been added increase the risk of prostate cancer.

However a vegetable rich diet with a lot of fruits, tomatoes, and yes, pepper, has been depicted by authoritative bodies and helpful in lowering prostate cancer risk… and fish oils too. Fish oils also help.

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How To Survive Prostate Cancer – 5 Simple But Powerfully Effective Ways

I know you may have just been given a limited prognosis by your doctor, but I want to use this opportunity to tell you that it’s not too late. You CAN survive prostate cancer!

You see, prostate cancer is not so much as the death sentence it used to be in the past. Now lots more people are surviving the condition than was the case in the past. Yes, lots of people still die from it, but the number is nowhere near what it used to be many years ago.

One of the major reasons why many people don’t survive this condition is that they give up too soon. They believe the prognosis and think nothing else can be done to survive. Yes, cancer of all kinds are deadly, but prostate cancer doesn’t have to send you to an early grave, if you do all that can be done to survive it.

Just like one of the major reasons for failing to survive is giving up too soon, one of the most important determinant as to whether one survives prostate cancer or not is NOT TO GIVE UP! You read that right – if you really want to survive this condition, then you have to decide, upfront, regardless of what the doctor or anyone else tells you, that you will do everything within your power to survive.

Below are some of the things that can help you survive prostate cancer: 

1. Like I said above, DO NOT GIVE UP, regardless of what your prognosis is:

Have the deep-rooted determination that you will FIGHT on until you win. As you may have known about life – the person who gives up is already defeated, even in battles like cancer. There have been stories of people who won just because they didn’t give up. They fought on and did everything they could and eventually survived. So, determination and doggedness in fighting prostate cancer is very important to surviving it!

2. Tell yourself and believe it – if others have survived this, you CAN survive it as well:

It’s a fact that lots of people have survived prostate cancer. Some of them you don’t know and many you may have heard of. As you can see when you visit the following links – Popular Celebrities Who Survived Prostate Cancer and Famous Prostate Cancer Survivors- you will find the many popular people who were diagnosed but survived this cancer. Like we always say on this website, if they could, you CAN survive it as well.

They are not any more human than you and they didn’t do anything magical. If they could, you can as well. The fact that the survivors span people from all over the world and all over different races further shows that surviving the condition is not a preserve of any one type of people or race. If ANYONE has ever survived the condition, it means EVERYONE can also survive it!

3. Find out what the prostate cancer survivors did to survive and do the same:

It’s very important not to isolate yourself from the world because of this condition. You need to get around those people who have survived it and learn from them. While some of them are celebrities, many are ordinary people like you and I. Of course it may be difficult to find the celebrities and famous people who have survived prostate cancer, but you can read up about them – learn what they did, what they didn’t do, the types of treatment that worked for them, the types that didn’t work for them, etc.

Keep visiting this website as we will be including a section where REAL survivors of prostate cancer will be sharing their experiences with our readers. You will learn what worked for them and what didn’t work. You will also get encouraged as they had been in your shoes before so they know how you are feeling right now. They can definitely help you survive this deadly condition!

Of course, we are all different and what works for one person might not work for another person, especially because the stages and peculiarities of the cancers may be different, but MOST people can get similar results from what worked for other people.

4. Learn about the many different workable prostate cancer treatments and discuss your best options with your doctor:

And listen – don’t take what the first doctor tells you as the gospel truth. It’s very important to weigh your options very carefully before deciding what to do. Some doctors would recommend surgery right away when other options might be more effective, for the particular stage of the cancer. So, apart from just learning as much as you can, you should also discuss your treatment options with more than one doctor.

5. Keep visiting this Prostate Cancer Victory website and other helpful prostate cancer related websites, to learn more about the condition as well as get inspired to FIGHT on, until you win:

We always believe that it’s not too late until you WIN this fight against prostate cancer. You must never play dead, no matter what your prognosis is. Fight on and you will win. Thankfully we provide you with lots of helpful information on this website to help you in surviving this condition.

Prostate Cancer Diet – Diets For And Against This Condition

A prostate cancer diet may be construed in the capacity of the foods to eat and the foods not to eat. A growing body of evidence links diets like red meat or high-fat dairy products that are rich in animal fats to the incidence of the disease in the United States, and compare it to the much lower incidence of prostate cancer realized in the third world countries of South America, Africa and Asia.

These dietary differences are even construed then to be the ultimate explanation for why the incidence of prostate cancer is a hundred and twenty times greater in the United States than in a nation like China, where they really don’t at fatty foods as part of the general diet.

It would appear as though certain fruits and vegetables act as a shield against the adenocarcinoma also. According to a study that was reported all the way back in 1995, tomatoes offer protection against prostate cancer because, it was believed, of its lycopene content.

As a result subsequent researches focused on lycopene, the antioxidant found in the vegetable fruit as well as in certain other (red pigmented) fruits, and what was found is that lycopene actually does help. With its antioxidant properties, it can neutralize free radicals that make body cells more vulnerable to cancer-causing agents. Now it is believed (based on studies) that a daily helping of tomatoes or tomato-containing products can lower prostate cancer risk by as much as 35%.

There are other studies also, which suggest that cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts, have some protective effect against prostate cancer, so it is urged that they be taken with the intention of preventing the disease from occurring, especially for men with a higher risk of developing prostate cancer.

There is also evidence that suggests that long-term, moderate doses of vitamin E, another type of antioxidant, may block the progression and growth of prostate tumors. Specifically selenium, an element found in tiny amounts primarily in plants and yeasts, is now associated with a lowered risk of certain cancers, especially cancer of the prostate.

Certainly large amounts of the element are toxic to the body, but clinical tests have shown of the effectiveness of vitamin E and selenium in preventing prostate cancer, although the final results of those are expected only in 2013.

Basically, as an alternative to active surveillance or definitive treatments, PSA levels are lowered in men that are on a fish allowed vegan diet, regular exercise, and stress reduction. In addition, pomegranate juice or genistein, an isoflavone found in various legumes, have both been shown to reduce PSA and/or slow PSA doubling times.

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