Re: Gleason 7 3+4 considering surgery -alternative therapies comment

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Hi Steve,

I'm not sure what you're including in " alternative therapies " , but dietary

considerations in PCa have been studied and continue to be used as active

treatments for more confined, less aggressive cancers.

See: Ornish et al J Urol 2005, 174, 1065.

For a summary of diet relations to PCa with many peer reviewed references

see Nutrition Action Health Letter, Sept 2009.

There are many more.E'g.,

Berkow, S.E. et al, Diet and survival after prostate cancer diagnosis, Nutrition

Reviews, 2007, 65, 391-403

Denmark-Wahnefried W and Moyad, MM, Dietary intervention in the management of

prostate cancer, Current Opinions in Urology, 2007, 17, 168-174

Syed DN et al, Chemoprevention of prostate cancer through dietary agents:

progress and promise. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, 2007, 16,

2191-2203

Van Patten, CL et al Diet and dietary supplement trials for the prevention of

prostate cancer recurrence: areview of the randomized clinical trial evidence.

Journal of Urology, 2008, 180, 2314-22.

You can research it for yourself at PubMed or Medline.

Best wishes,

Joe

>

> > Bill,

> >

> > If I were you I'd be reluctant to spend any more time with

> > " alternative " therapies. Although your Gleason scores and PSA

> > are " low risk " , the fact that you have cancer in many areas of

> > the prostate and that you are only 49 years old suggests to me

> > that you could develop a very dangerous cancer before you're old

> > enough to die of something else.

>

> (snip)

>

> I second Alan's motion.

>

> Dammit, he's far east of me and gets to say what I want to say

> before I'm awake :-(

>

> Fundamentally, the so-called " alternative " treatments do little

> but enrich the conscienceless snake-oil purveyors while

> distracting desperate patients from txs of known efficacy.

>

> Side effects can usually be dealt with. Consider the SE of

> failure to treat per science rather than per the greed of someone

> who has zero education in medical science. It's called Death.

>

> Think: If such txs were so wonderful, why are they not part of

> the armamentarium now employed against our disease? And please

> don't start a lecture about some vast conspiracy. That's moo poo.

>

> Science is our salvation, and even that sometime is ineffective.

> I knew a brilliant man who in effect had a PhD in prostate cancer

> and fought the good fight for many years. But the bear finally

> ate him about a month ago. RIP.

>

> Regards,

>

> Steve J

>

> Kyrie eleison.

> O Lord, have mercy.

>