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Prostate Cancer Risk of Obese Men Elevated by Use of Statins

June 14, 2009 – 3:15 am

There had been previous suggestions that statins, which are pharmaceutical drugs often prescribed to control cholesterol levels, could have a positive effect in terms of lowering prostate cancer risk. Could this be true?
The following article highlights research which suggests the opposite is in fact the case - that statins increase prostate cancer risk in obese [...]

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Overweight Prostate Cancer Sufferers More Likely to Die of the Disease

June 14, 2009 – 2:54 am

If one is obese, one has a much higher probability of contracting a host of various degenerative diseases, as well as to live a much shorter life.
Logically speaking, with a weaker body and a compromised immune system, an overweight person would also be less able to fend off and recover from various health conditions. [...]

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Impact of Diet and Lifestyle on Cancer Risk - Many Are Not Informed

June 3, 2009 – 10:12 am

A good diet can help to prevent cancer, and even help you to overcome the disease, right? Bad foods cause cancer, right? Bad lifestyle habits like alcohol drinking, lack of exercise and being overweight increase cancer risk, right?
These sound like common and commonsensical knowledge, which you would think the majority of people would be aware [...]

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Simple Lifestyle and Dietary Changes Stopped Aggressive Prostate Cancer; 36% Did Not Need Further Treatment

March 30, 2009 – 3:08 am

A study conducted at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridgeshire found that, for almost 40% of aggressive prostate cancer sufferers, surgery and radiotherapy treatments which were planned were not needed after the men made simple changes to their lifestyle and dietary habits.
Not only did the changes slow the growth of the cancers, they even stopped it altogether [...]

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Obesity Linked in Study to Higher Ovarian Cancer Risk

January 7, 2009 – 8:00 am

According to a recent study, post-menopausal women who are obese and who have never before used hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may have higher risk of getting ovarian cancer, as compared to women who are in the normal-weight range.
This, however, does not seem to apply to obese women who have used HRT for menopausal symptoms – [...]

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High Blood Insulin Levels Raise Breast Cancer Risk

January 7, 2009 – 3:59 am

A study conducted by researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City has found that women who have high blood insulin levels seem to have a higher risk of getting breast cancer, as compared to those with lower blood insulin levels.
This, according to them, might be the reason behind the link [...]

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Overweight Women Found to Have Higher Risk of Advanced Breast Cancer

December 26, 2008 – 12:51 pm

Previous studies had linked obesity and excess weight to higher risk of cancer. A recent study, published in the December issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, affirmed those findings.
The study looked at more than 287,000 women and their mammogram habits and discovered that overweight older women had a higher risk of getting [...]

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