Men given 12 or more injections of testosterone per year were 33% LESS likely to get prostate cancer during a 3-year follow-up than men not on testosterone replacement according to data from 189,491 men aged 40-60 years-old.

Men using testosterone gel 330 days or more per year were 42% LESS likely to get prostate cancer than men not on testosterone replacement.

This is the exact opposite of what was believed for many years.

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Do statins increase cancer?

Yes, according to a letter published in Current Oncology.

The letter starts out by saying “prospective data suggest that statins actually increase cancer in certain segments of the population.”

Here are other quotes from the letter.

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Men who drank 5 or more cups of green tea per day were 48% less likely to get advanced prostate cancer compared to men who drank less than one cup per day according to a 2007 study from researchers at the National Cancer Center in Japan.

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Fat intake is not associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer according to a 2015 review of the research.

Saturated fat intake was not.

Polyunsaturated fat was not.

Monounsaturated fat was not.

And total fat intake was not.

The same was true for advanced stage prostate cancer (with slightly different relative risks than those shown below).

“Current published cohort studies suggest no association between total fat, saturated fat, or unsaturated fat intake and the risk for [prostate cancer],” the authors of the paper concluded.

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Men consuming a high intake of garlic, which was not quantified, had 19% less prostate cancer compared to men who had a low intake of garlic according to a 2006 study from Milano, Italy which used data from an integrated network of Italian and Swiss case-control studies.

(Subjects were simply asked if they had a low intake, moderate intake or high intake of garlic.)

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Men who consumed 6 or more cups of coffee per day were 60% less likely to get fatal prostate cancer over the next 20 years according to Health Professionals Follow-up Study.

“We observed a strong inverse association between coffee consumption and risk of lethal prostate cancer,” the authors of the study noted.

“The association appears to be related to non-caffeine components of coffee.”

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SSRI’s may increase risk of breast cancer and prostate cancer, and interfere with REM sleep and cause memory problems notes Joan Mathews Larson PhD in this video clip.

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Older men, who on average were 61-years-old, who were testosterone-deficient, and who were given injections of testosterone, lost an average of 35 pounds and showed no evidence of increase risk of prostate cancer according to a study presented on May 9th, 2012 at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France. Read the entire article | Email this article

Among countries in the European Union, 3.4 percent of all cancers in men and 6.4 percent of all cancer in women are attributable to overweight and obesity according to a paper published in the British Medical Journal. Read the entire article | Email this article

People who consume the most onions reduce the risk of various cancers by 25-88 percent according to a study from Italy. Read the entire article | Email this article

"[O]besity is weakly associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer," concludes a new meta-analysis of previous studies. Read the entire article | Email this article

Obesity in boys before the age of ten-years-old reduces the risk of prostate cancer later in life by 21 percent according to a new study. Read the entire article | Email this article

Elevated fasting blood sugar levels -- above 140 mg/dL -- increase the risk of cancer death by 29 percent in men and 23 percent in women compared to people with the lowest blood sugar levels -- less than 90 mg/dL -- according to a study from Korea. Read the entire article | Email this article

Obesity lowers the risk of prostate cancer according to a new study from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. Read the entire article | Email this article

Being obese increases the risk of prostate cancer in men by 9-27 percent according to three very large recent studies. [The percentage was corrected on 08/04/04.] Read the entire article | Email this article

Being 20-29 percent over ideal weight increases the risk of a man dying from prostate cancer by 37 percent according to a study done by the American Cancer Society involving 750,000 people determined the risk of dying from individual diseases. Read the entire article | Email this article

OBESITY INCREASES THE RISK OF PROSTATE CANCER as much as 40 percent concludes a recent study. Read the entire article | Email this article