Tuesday, April 7, 2009

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Abiraterone can Cure Prostate Cancer

EXPECTATIONS prostate cancer to recover seems to be the greater after scientists successfully developed a new drug called Abiraterone. Scientists welcome the enthusiastic attendance Abiraterone and found as the most significant progress in this field of cancer treatment during the last 70 years.

According to experts from the Institute of Cancer Research, cancer research center based in the UK who develops Abiraterone, this drug should be made proud as claimed able to treat 80 percent of prostate cancer patients. This medicine works effectively in a way preventing hormones that trigger the occurrence of cancer.

Institute of Cancer Research hopes a simple pill form of Abiraterone will be available in two or three years. Clinical test involving about 1200 patients worldwide are still at this time and will be followed by a number of advanced research at the end of this year.

Prostate cancer disease itself is a type of cancer that most often found among men. Life expectancy after patients undergo chemotherapy are usually not more than 18 months. Experts assume that prostate cancer is also influenced by sex hormones such as testosterones, which resulted in the testis. Type of treatment is usual at this time is to stop the testis produce testosterone.

However, experts have to find the fact that cancer can also get a sex hormone from many sources, including from the hormones produced from the tumor itself. Here Abiraterone role to impede and blocking hormone production throughout the body.

Research is also published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology this, is the result of the monitoring prostate cancer patients who are aggressive and have been in the next stadium. Patients are given medication Abiraterone research and data collected from all over the world.

Research indicates contraction of the size of tumor in a significant decrease as well have a similar level of protein produced important cancer called Prostate specific antigen in majorities patients.

Most of the reported patients show significant progress and improvements in the quality of their lives. Some of them can stop the consumption of morphine for the pain caused by the spread of the disease in their bones.

Source: BBC

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

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New Drugs to Cure Prostate Cancer

New Drugs to Cure Prostate Cancer
EXPECTATIONS prostate cancer to recover seems to be the greater after scientists successfully developed a new drug called Abiraterone. Scientists welcome the enthusiastic attendance Abiraterone and found as the most significant progress in this field of cancer treatment during the last 70 years.

According to experts from the Institute of Cancer Research, cancer research center based in the UK who develop Abiraterone, this drug should be proud of as claimed able to treat 80 percent of patients of prostate cancer. This medicine works effectively in a way preventing hormones that trigger the occurrence of cancer.

Institute of Cancer Research hopes a simple pill form Abiraterone will be available in two or three years. Clinical test involving about 1200 patients worldwide are still at this time and will be followed by a number of advanced research at the end of this year.

Prostate cancer disease itself is a type of cancer that most often found among men. Life expectancy after patients undergo chemotherapy are usually not more than 18 months. Experts assume that prostate cancer is also influenced by sex hormones such as testosterone which resulted in the testis. Type of treatment is usual at this time is to stop the testis produce testosterone.

However, experts have to find the fact that cancer can also get a sex hormone from many sources, including from the hormones produced from the tumor itself. Here Abiraterone role impede and block hormone production throughout the body.

Research is also published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology this, is the result of the monitoring prostate cancer patients who are aggressive and have been in the stadium go. Patients are given medication Abiraterone research and data collected from all over the world.

Research indicates contraction of the size of tumor in a significant decrease as well have a similar level of protein produced important cancer called Prostate specific antigen in majority patients.

Most of the reported patients show significant progress and improvements in the quality of their lives. Some of them can stop the consumption of morphine for the pain caused by the spread of the disease in their bones.

Source: BBC

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When Prostate become a Cancer

When Prostate become a Cancer
Because the cause of Prostate cancer is not known exactly, no one can say how to prevent it. However, many studies indicate that consuming low fat and low cholesterol food cholesterol may help prevent the prostate cancer.

Experts recommend that men eat tomatoes red diligent and soybean products, such as know, soy flour, soy milk, and reduce the consumption of red meat. Consumption of vitamin A, E, D, and it is said to help prevent tumor growth in animals and human prostate. Similarly organized sports and proportional.

Estimated at about 30 percent of men aged above 50 years suffering from prostate cancer unconsciously. In fact, the number is increased up to 90 percent in men aged about 90 year. That is way, men are encouraged to always do a routine health check every year. This activity should start before the age of 40 turn-an.

Although the swelling prostate walking slowly, for the case of cancer, including rapid development. Cancer examination is conducted by striking the rectal and blood antigen test specific to prostate, or PSA (Prostate-specific antigen).

If you are affected by cancer is suspected, tests will be done again. Normal PSA level between 0 and 4 Mg / l or microgram per liter. If the PSA level increased more than 4 Mg / l and 9 with the same Mg / l, you get prostate cancer risk. However, if more, for example, 10 Mg / l, increased cancer risk is exposed to 65 percent!

In the early stages, cancer can be corrected with surgery and radiation. This therapy can even reduce your sexual inability. Of course, that you are over 40-highly recommended for an examination to measure PSA each year so that the health condition known earlier. Known earlier, more easily cured condition.

Who is at risk?

Basically prostate enlargement can be avoided. Here are some risk factors that need to be so you can avoid the occurrence of prostate enlargement:
  • Men aged over 50 years. More than 80 percent of cases found in the prostate cancer in men aged over 65 years.
  • Style of life is not comfortable, full of pressure and stress.
  • Men who like red meat and do not like vegetables and fruit.
  • Smokers.
  • Lack of exercise.
  • Men who have a family history of prostate cancer.
  • People with diabetes mellitus.
  • Obesity. Type of body weight that is the type of prostate body swell at the waist with a distended stomach, such as apples. Burden on the stomach muscles pressing sexual organs, causing the loss of muscle flexibility of sexual organs. In addition, the performance of the deposit of fat testis.
  • Have heart trouble, such as organ damage, heart pains, or heart enlargement.


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