Beating Prostate Cancer

Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger

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Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

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🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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New research on prostate cancer screening and diet. This episode features audio from:

* The Pros and Cons of Testing PSA Levels for Prostate Cancer
* Changing a Man’s Diet After a Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
* Natural Dietary Treatments for Enlarged Prostate BPH

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0:00.0	Did you ever wonder if certain foods have a direct effect on your health?
0:05.0	Well, I'm here to solve that mystery since you are the foods you eat.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast. I'm your host Dr Michael Greger.
0:15.0	Today we bring you new research about prostate cancer and we start with the
0:20.0	sometimes problematic results of PSA testing.
0:24.0	While 64% of men develop hidden prostate cancers by their 60s,
0:29.0	the lifetime risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer is only about 11%. And the risk of dying from prostate cancer 2.5% at the average age of 80. So most men develop prostate cancer, but they die with their tumors rather than from their tumors. Most
0:47.2	men with prostate cancer live their whole lives never knowing they even had it. That's one of the problems screaming for it. Many prostate
0:55.6	cancers that are detected may never have led to harm even if they gone
1:00.5	undiscovered. Nonetheless, not all men are so lucky. About 30,000 Americans
1:06.6	die each year from prostate cancer. So should you get a PSA prostate screening test or not?
1:14.7	PSA stands for prostate-specific antigen and enzymes secreted by cells of the prostate
1:20.7	to liquefy semen and cervical mucus to facilitate fertilization, elevated levels in the blood can be a sign of prostate cancer, which led to FDA approval as a screening test for the early detection of prostate cancer in the 1990s. If it comes back high,
1:36.4	the test is usually repeated. If it's still high, the next step is typically an ultrasound
1:41.6	guided biopsy of the prostate through the rectum.
1:44.4	If there's cancer, then options include surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy or a
1:51.0	delayal of treatment. However, the USPSTF, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the main independent scientific
1:59.9	panel that sets evidence-based clinical prevention guidelines recommended against routine
2:06.5	PSA screening, as does the American College of Prevent Medicine, the American Academy of Family
2:12.3	Physicians, and the vast majority, 85% of professional
2:16.4	medical societies in developed countries around the world opposed.
2:21.2	In 2018, though, the USPSTF shifted from a summary judgment against two, quote,
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