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3 stories tagged "prostate-cancer"
Nutrition & Food
Four in Five Men Have Never Heard Milk Is Tied to Prostate Cancer
A vegan advocacy group's survey says only 20% of men know the link. The growth-hormone mechanism is well-mapped, the relative risks are modest, and nobody in a white coat is walking men through either one.
CancerThe Reason Immunotherapy Bounces Off Prostate Cancer: Tumors Chew Off a Genetic Tail to Blind the Immune System
Prostate tumors overproduce a protein that destroys the immune system's docking targets. A CRISPR tool that blocks the trick made checkpoint drugs work again, so far only in mice.
CancerA Week Instead of a Month: The Faster Prostate Radiation Was Only "As Safe" on the Coarser Ruler
PACE-C put five-fraction radiation against the four-week course in 1,208 men. On the old grading scale they matched. On the finer one the short course logged 17 percent bowel toxicity against 10 percent, and the trial still can't say whether the shorter beam controls cancer as well.