A new American Cancer Society report says that men with diabetes seem to have a reduced risk of developing prostate cancer. The society's study tracked 72,000 men from 1992 to 2002 and found that men diagnosed with type 2 diabetes were less likely to also be diagnosed later with prostate cancer. Scientists say a drop in insulin levels among diabetes patients may be key to the lowered risk. * Men with type 2 diabetes seem to be less likely to develop prostate cancer, overall, a new study i...

If sex is the sweet part of a relationship, then orgasm has to be all that delightful chocolate they put in my favorite sweet things. Jokes aside, sex can be very accurately described as the glue that holds together the other aspects of a relationship between two people. And orgasm is the goal of every hot sex session. The pleasure that makes the tight worlds of intimate relationships go round. What is less known is the fact that orgasms have certain health benefits attached to them. Inde...

After prostate cancer surgery, obese men are more likely than men with normal weight to have high levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA), a marker for cancer recurrence, according to a study led by Johns Hopkins researchers. "Our results show that moderately and severely obese men were at an increased risk for high PSA levels after surgery and therefore are likely to have prostate cancer recurrence," said Stephen Freedland, M.D., instructor of urology at the Brady Urological Institut...

The first longitudinal study of male orgasmic quality following radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) found that some men experience decreased orgasmic quality. Overall, orgasmic quality improved with increasing length of follow up. It has been known that RRP and other surgical procedures for the treatment of prostate cancer can negatively impact sexual function, but previous studies had focused solely on erectile and ejaculatory function issues. The study will be presented during a discusse...

New research on genes linked to hereditary prostate cancer helps scientists better understand how prostate cancer grows. Tests to find abnormal prostate cancer genes could also help tell which men are at high risk. They could then be tested more often. Further research could provide answers about the chemical changes that lead to prostate cancer. Then, perhaps, we could design drugs to reverse those changes. One of the biggest problems now facing doctors and their patients w...

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers to be diagnosed in men. Unlike many other cancers, prostate cancer often grows very slowly and is difficult to detect for many years. A man with this disease may not exhibit any prostate cancer symptoms for some time. Many men pass off prostate cancer symptoms as just signs of getting older. Aging men do experience many of the same symptoms as those with prostate cancer because of how both affect urination. Prostate cancer symptoms incl...

Science Daily — A treatment mainstay for prostate cancer puts men at increased risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to a large observational study published in the 2006, Sept. 20 Journal of Clinical Oncology. "Men with prostate cancer have high five-year survival rates, but they also have higher rates of non-cancer mortality than healthy men," says study author Nancy Keating, MD, MPH, assistant professor of health care policy and of medicine at Harvard Medical School. "T...

Men over 50 years of age with high blood levels of testosterone have an increased risk of prostate cancer, according to a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins and the National Institute on Aging. The finding throws some doubt on the safety of testosterone replacement therapy, the investigators say. The researchers measured several forms of testosterone in almost 3,000 blood samples collected over a 40-year period from 759 men in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging, of whom 111 were...

Nation-wide statistics indicate that while some types of cancer are occurring less frequently, the rates of others are still surging upward. According to a new study published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, incidence of skin cancer is climbing in both sexes - more men are facing prostate cancer, while more women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Cancers showing a decrease in incidence in both sexes include lung, stomach and colon cancers. "There are a variety of factors th...

The prostate gland can attribute to premature ejaculation by its enlargement. Because the prostate stores and produces 95% of what comes out of you during ejaculation, it has a lot to say about when you actually do come, by means of the sympathetic nerves. When dealing with the prostate, you may have heard it referred to as “the Male G-Spot”. Perhaps this is because the prostate is made-up of the same embryonic tissues that comprise the female G-spot (an area of nerve endings and sensitive ti...

Type II diabetes will not lead to more aggressive prostate cancer, but it could lead to a lower long-term survival rate. New research from the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia contradicts previous findings about prostate cancer and diabetes. Previous studies revealed insulin may make prostate cancer cells grow more aggressively. Diabetes is a condition that can lead to excessive amounts of insulin in the blood. Researchers studied 1,512 men with localized protate cancer treated w...

Enlarged prostate can be treated successfully by the herb saw palmetto. When enlarged prostate symptoms develop talk to your Doctor about maintaining your prostate health with the addition of the saw palmetto herb. Europe has been using Saw Palmetto to promote prostate health for years. Enlarged prostate or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and the herb saw palmetto has been studied in European labs for it's effectiveness in treating the disorder. American labs lag far behind in their re...

A study conducted by researchers at the American Cancer Society, published in the 2005 January 15 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology, has concluded that men with type 2 diabetes were less likely to develop prostate cancer than men without diabetes. Results of the study, using data from some 72,000 men, indicated that the risk of prostate cancer was linked to the length of time since diagnosis of diabetes. Men with diabetes for at least four years had a one-third lower rate of prost...

What are mesothelioma lawsuits and how do they arise? Mesothelioma lawsuits are filed by the victims of mesothelioma to avail reparations for medical expenses, pain & suffering and loss of income associated with the growth of this disease. Mesothelioma is a kind of cancer, which is inflicted by exposure to asbestos most frequently used in industrial and residential places till the late seventies. The numbers of mesothelioma victims were on the rise as the employers continued using these ha...

Mesothelioma the medical name for cancer of the lung or the abdomen lining, and is usually caused by exposure to asbestos. Asbestos is a type of building material used in thermal insulation products and ceiling tiles. Asbestos usage peaked during the 1950s - 1970s, but during the late 1960s, concerns over the health consequences of asbestos exposure began to arise, thereby decreasing the amount of asbestos manufactured over the following two decades. But even though new measures where brou...