Lifetime risk of prostate cancer 'has trebled'

[xchrom]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21144676


Estimates suggest boys will have a one in seven chance of being diagnosed with prostate cancer

Prostate cancer risk has risen to such a degree that one in every seven boys will develop it, projections suggest.

Experts say the trebling of lifetime risk - up from one in 20 in 1990 - is partly because doctors are spotting more cases and partly because men are living longer meaning more develop it.

Cancer Research UK, which compiled the data and made estimates for boys born in 2015, says although the cancer rates are rising, deaths are going down.

They have dropped by 20% in 20 years.

[Buzz Clik]

1. Excellent news!

Experts say the trebling of lifetime risk - up from one in 20 in 1990 - is partly because doctors are spotting more cases and partly because men are living longer meaning more develop it.

Cancer Research UK, which compiled the data and made estimates for boys born in 2015, says although the cancer rates are rising, deaths are going down.

Yep! That's awesome.

[d_r]

2. I've heard that

all men would eventually develop prostate cancer if they lived long enough. I don't know if that is true or a myth.

[LibGranny]

4. My husband had prostate cancer last year and his

oncologist told him that "more men die with prostate cancer than from it"! Spouse had surgery followed by radiation and seems to be healthy as his psa is back to zero!

[d_r]

5. good news

I'm glad your husband is OK. That's also what I've been told.

[SheilaT]

7. I have been reading for years,

probably thirty years or more, that most men who live long enough get prostate cancer, and that the vast majority of men die with it, although not from it.

Living longer has certain drawbacks. In general, the longer we live the greater risk we are of getting cancer of some kind. I don't know about anyone else, but at my advanced age (64) I'm happy to have that risk, as compared to perhaps having died of scarlet fever or smallpox or in childbirth (for me what really might have happened without modern medicine) or anything else. While I'm not crazy about the idea of getting cancer, I do know that I will eventually die from something. Meanwhile, I'll enjoy the years that I have.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Not the BBC's finest headline

The real news is that death rates have dropped. The incidence of diagnosis is an artifact from people living longer and rampant overdiagnosis by PSA tests (are those still being used for screening?),

[bemildred]

6. Lifetime risk of prostate cancer DIAGNOSIS has tripled.

Sort of like with better telescopes you see a lot more stars?

[LeftishBrit]

8. To a large extent, this is due to men living longer

Prostate cancer is a disease of older men. Also, I understand that in the past, autopsies often showed that men who died of something else also showed signs of early prostate cancer. It was said in the past that people often died with prostate cancer but rarely of it. It only started to be taken very seriously when men started living long enough on average to risk dying of prostate cancer. Early diagnosis and better treatment have begun to lead to improved survival rates for this disease.

[2on2u]

9. I'm in need of a multi that has "some" of the items listed in another post relating to this

particular issue.... I found two, they are far cheaper than ones found locally at brick and mortar stores..... I never intended for people to take those posts as a push to take anything or use anything as a treatment for any disease, only as a preventive. Soon enough we will know if treatment using these items will be condoned.

What I tried to accomplish was to show that all the talk of woo and snake oil is often misplaced. Persuading people that there is little that they can do to reduce their symptoms of BPH naturally is silly. The golfer will tell you that straight up.

This is what is in the multi I ordered and several of the items that were in the other product that is astronomically expensive are in this multi, perhaps not to the degree or mg as the other but as a preventive approach it is probably just what it needs to be.

This is just the tail end of the brew, I seriously doubt Centrum can lay claim to having any of the following.

Citrus Bioflavonoid Complex
25 Mg
N/A*

Damiana(Turnera Aphrodisiaca)(Leaf)
70 Mg
N/A*

Korean Ginseng(Panax Ginseng)(Root)
70 Mg
N/A*

Oatstraw(AVENA SATIVA)(SEED)
70 Mg
N/A*

Garlic(Allium Sativum)(Bulb)
50 Mg
N/A*

Oyster Extract
50 Mg
N/A*

Prostate Glandular(Bovine)
50 Mg
N/A*

Saw Palmetto(Serenoa Repens)(Berry)
50 Mg
N/A*

L-Cysteine(As L-Cysteine Hcl)
50 Mg
N/A*

NETTLES(Urtica Dioica)(Leaf)
30 Mg
N/A*

Pumpkin Seed(CUCURBITA MAXIMA)(SEED)
30 Mg
N/A*

L-Methionine
10 Mg
N/A*

Alpha-Lipoic Acid
5 Mg
N/A*

Lycopene(From Tomato Extract)
1 Mg
N/A*