[Chat] More on prostate cancer

[Stephen J Gewirtz]

A book that I very much recommend is The Prostate Cancer Protection 
Plan: The Foods, Supplements, and Drugs That Can Combat Prostate Cancer 
by Dr. Bob Arnot.  This book details the relationship between diet and 
prostate cancer, based on where prostate cancer is prevalent (U.S.) and 
where it is much rarer.  For example, in much of Asia, the rate of 
prostate cancer is far lower than in the U.S.  And the sons of 
immigrants from those places still have a lower rate of prostate cancer 
than the rest of Americans, but the grandsons have the same rate as the 
rest of us.  The logical suspect is diet.

For this reason, much of the time I follow Dr. Arnot's advice of a 
vegan, Asian or Mediterranean diet, although I do eat meat or fish every 
so often.

Treatment does not completely rid one of the cancer; that is why one 
will receive periodic PSA tests after treatment and, in the case of 
radiation treatment, periodic digital rectal exams.  What is important 
is that the cancer not spread to the bones.  This is why diet is still 
important.

Dr. Arnot has a similar and earlier book on breast cancer (The Breast 
Cancer Prevention Diet); I have not read it, but he says that its 
recommendations are similar except that women need more calcium (but 
calcium can contribute to prostate cancer in men).

Steve.
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