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Medical News | Medical Articles | Increased Vegetable Intake Fails to Slow Prostate Cancer Progression, Study Finds

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Increased Vegetable Intake Fails to Slow Prostate Cancer Progression, Study Finds

Researchers in the United States have conducted a study investigating whether a telephone-based interventional program encouraging an increased intake of vegetables would slow disease progression among patients with early-stage prostate cancer.

			Combined biopsy more likely to detect aggressive prostate cancers than standard biopsy alone Using a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to target and sample suspicious prostate tissue along with a standard prostate biopsy is significantly more likely to detect the most aggressive prostate cancers than standard biopsy alone.

			Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in England In the health agency’s report, there were 49,029 diagnoses made in 2018, which is about 8,000 more than the previous year, surpassing breast cancer with 47,476 cases. Lung cancer followed with 38,996 cases. The new data reveals that there were more cancers detected in 2018 in men than in women.

	Being overweight linked to greater risk of advanced prostate cancer A new study links being overweight in middle age and later adulthood to a greater risk of advanced prostate cancer.

	Study: Most men choosing surgery for prostate cancer do not regret their decisions Men with localized prostate cancer are faced with deciding among a range of options for treatment - including a choice between robot-assisted versus conventional prostatectomy.

	Statin use alone or with metformin may increase survival in high-risk prostate cancer patients Among high-risk prostate cancer patients - those with high PSA and Gleason scores of 8 or more - many will develop a difficult-to-treat disease.

	Researchers develop a microfluidic chip to help detect prostate cancer Researchers of Sechenov University together with their colleagues from Australia used the microfluidics technology to develop a device able to isolate cancer cells from urine of patients with prostate cancer.