I am puzzled lately with all the news that prostate cancer screening might be controversy. The studies that were released this week in an excellent journal called the New England Journal of Medicine, one completed in the USA and the other in Europe, looked into the popular idea that routine screenings reduces cancer-caused deaths.
Life-style related factors, particularly diet, are considered to be the major contributors to prostate cancer. Key cancer researches had shown that a diet including functional foods could result in a substantial reduction in the incidence of the clinically detectable prostate cancer. Of all dietary components, the most compelling evidence for chemopreventive effects has been accumulated for the active component of green tea -Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate (EGCG).
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A recent cancer study based on 1.3 million British women offers yet more evidence that alcohol consumption increases the risk of breast cancer if you smoke.British middle-aged women were surveyed at various breast cancer screening clinics about their drinking habits, and had their health tracked for seven years.The women were classed in 3 categories: no drink, 2 drinks or less a day and 3 drinks or more a day.