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High fat diet may abet prostate cancer progression

By Joene Hendry
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Diets high in saturated fat may increase the risk of prostate cancer progression, researchers from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston report.
In a follow up study of men who had their cancerous prostates removed, researchers found […]

 

Unproven cancer therapy lures U.S. men to Mexico

Article from The New York Times
By Stephanie Saul
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico - Some weekends, more than a dozen American men wait at beachfront hotels, eager for their turns in the treatment room at a small private hospital here.
They are medical tourists with prostate cancer. And they are queued up for the latest therapy - one advertised […]

 

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