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It’s 6:30am again, and Kristen is wheeling another prostate patient in, but this time to the robotic OR.
And now I have a sort of vested interest: I want to do it for prostate cancer.
It also helps reduce the risk of the most common cancers, like breast, prostate and colon.
Now, we're about to publish the first study looking at the effects of this program on prostate cancer, in collaboration with Sloan Kettering and UCSF.
We took 90 men who had biopsy-proven prostate cancer, who had elected, for reasons unrelated to the study, not to have surgery.
When we looked at their PSA levels, which is a marker for prostate cancer, they got worse in the control group but got better in the experimental group.
If it's true for prostate cancer, it'll almost certainly be true for breast cancer.
Currently, that list includes cancer of the bowel, cancer of the prostate and cancer of the breast.
I don't need to give you many statistics about prostate cancer.
For maybe about 10 percent of prostate cancer, there are folks that are predisposed to it.
And the first gene that was mapped in association studies for this, early-onset prostate cancer, was this gene called RNASEL.
Does this virus cause prostate cancer?
This is the guy who started the project in my lab, and this is the guy who's been doing prostate stuff.
And since this was introduced in 1999, a lot of these robots have been out and being used for surgical procedures like a prostatectomy, which is a prostate deep in the pelvis, and it requires fine dissection and delicate manipulation to be able to get a good surgical outcome.
And in fact if you, or anyone you know, had their prostate taken out in the last couple of years, chances are it was done with one of these systems.
You then have some body part descriptions: "It's in the liver, in the breast, in the prostate."
It is absolutely archaic that we call cancer by prostate, by breast, by muscle.
About 50 percent of men in their 50s and 60s have microscopic prostate cancers, and virtually 100 percent of us, by the time we reach our 70s, will have microscopic cancers growing in our thyroid.
Well, the best example I know is a study of 79,000 men followed over 20 years, in which it was found that men who consumed cooked tomatoes two to three times a week, had up to a 50 percent reduction in their risk of developing prostate cancer.
But what's even more interesting from this study, is that in those men who did develop prostate cancer, those who ate more servings of tomato sauce, actually had fewer blood vessels feeding their cancer.
In terms of sex, Nick Nolte's character (Ray Cook) has prostate cancer and presumably the cuddling and kissing he does with his old high school sweetheart Marianne (a thankfully fully-clothed Sally Kirkland) is about all he's up to, while Mickey Rourke's Randy "The Ram" Robinson gets to spend a lot of screen time with topless Marisa Tomei (playing his exotic dancer lover Cassidy).
I love the "Transformers-Optimus Prime dies of prostate cancer" skit.
For example, lycopene from cooked tomato sauces may help prevent prostate cancer.
Screening for prostate cancer, too, requires a blood test – the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test.
Elevated PSA levels would suggest the presence of prostate cancer, even if no physical abnormalities were detected, so a tissue biopsy would be conducted.
Proponents also contend that the two-decade decline in the overall incidence of deaths from prostate cancer is the result of increasingly widespread PSA testing.
To be sure, at-risk men – for example, those with a family history of prostate cancer, African-Americans, or men with enlarged prostates who are treated with 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors (whose failure to lower PSA levels could reflect increased risk of developing prostate cancer) – may want to consider getting tested.
In addition, a recent study comparing outcomes for patients whose prostate gland was surgically removed to those for patients who underwent only observation found no differences in survival rates between the two groups.
Because the average age at diagnosis is 71-73, men are likely to die from other causes before prostate cancer claims their life.
And there is no credible evidence that low-grade prostate cancer uniformly progresses to higher-grade cancers, so early treatment is not essential.
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