Prostate cancer and lifestyle

[phooph]

Results of a study on how diet and lifestyle changes can affect prostate cancer from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
https://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/105/24/8369

[Braggi]

Pooph, do you have any idea what this study showed?

Whoever wrote it up has a PhD in obscurative verbiage.

-Jeff

Results of a study on how diet and lifestyle changes can affect prostate cancer from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
https://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/105/24/8369

[phooph]

It says that a small group of 30 men over a three month period showed a reduction in PSA (prostate specific antigen, an idicator of prostate problems) and oncogene expression (genes that produce cancer) after changing their diet and lifestyle. Since those two are indicators of the presence of prostate cancer their reduction suggests that diet and lifestyle changes may affect the DNA associated with prostate cancer. Much of it is shop talk for lab jockies explaining the details of how the data was obtained and analyzed. It is definitely not a lay article. It is a pilot study to see if a more in depth study would be worthwhile, which is the conclusion that was drawn.

"In conclusion, the GEMINAL study suggests that intensive nutrition and lifestyle changes may modulate gene expression in the prostate. Understanding the mechanisms of how comprehensive lifestyle changes affect transcriptional regulation may strengthen efforts to develop effective prevention and treatment strategies for prostate cancer. Larger randomized controlled clinical trials are now warranted to confirm and extend the hypotheses generated by the results of this pilot study and to better understand the relative contribution of each component of the intervention."

Pooph, do you have any idea what this study showed?

Whoever wrote it up has a PhD in obscurative verbiage.

-Jeff