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Whether or not diet can help in the prevention or cure of prostate cancer is a very difficult question to answer. In terms of prevention, the answer may be yes, but there is very little hard scientific evidence to e more certain. However, a lack of scientific evidence does not necessarily mean a lack of benefit, but simply that very little research ahs been performed in this area. There is a great deal anecdotal evidence which points to diet as benign a major factor in accelerating the disease. 

Vegetarians are approximately half as likely to develop prostate cancer as meat eaters. It is not clear why this should be the case. It is not clear whether meat itself is the problem or whether a person who eats more meat is less likely to eat other beneficial foods for example. 

It is observed that people in eastern countries such as India, China and Japan are far less likely than westerners to develop cancer. Also, the levels of cancer in the east are arising and this coincides with changes in lifestyle since more people are eating western style foods. 


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Posted by:  prema  Posted on: 01/18/2010
Abiraterone in prostate cancer

The big news in oncology has been Johnson and Johnson purchasing Cougar Biotechnology for $1 billion. They have just bought promising prostate cancer compound, abiraterone.

So look out for this oral drug.

Dr.Shroff
The data hasn't even been announced at ASCO yet, that's this weekend coming, so one can only speculate that suitors got a sneak peek of the data under an NDA. A billion dollars certainly gets attention and raises the ante for future small oncology biotech deals.




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