Show 1039: How to Reduce Your Risk from Breast or Prostate Cancer

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As we grow older, the risk of two different cancers looms ever larger: breast cancer for women and prostate cancer for men. Whether you are a woman or a man, how can you reduce your risk from breast or prostate cancer? Unscrambling the Controversies: There have been controversies over the best methods for detecting and […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.3	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.8	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.2	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.0	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:31.1	This year, roughly 300,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 180,000 men will get a diagnosis of prostate
0:39.5	cancer. This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:50.2	Despite advances in treatment, too many people still die of breast in prostate cancer.
0:56.0	How can we make sense of confusing headlines about PSA tests and mammograms?
1:02.0	We turn to two of the country's leading experts for answers.
1:05.0	Dr. Susan Love tells you about the latest breast cancer research.
1:09.0	Dr. Charles Myers brings us up to date on prostate
1:12.4	cancer diagnosis and treatment. What foods are protective? Coming up on the People's Pharmacy,
1:19.4	learn how to reduce your risk from breast or prostate cancer. First, this news.
1:36.3	In the people's pharmacy health headlines, exercise is just as important for older people as it is for younger adults. A new study had more than 120,000 people in it. They were at least
1:43.4	60 years old, and they were followed for 10 years on average.
1:47.0	The researchers also had a separate group of more than 1,000 French people who were 65 years old in 2001.
1:55.2	This group was tracked for 12 years.
1:58.4	Compared to sedentary participants, those who exercised even a little bit,
2:03.5	about 15 minutes of brisk walking daily, decreased their risk of early death by 22%.
2:10.9	Moderate and high levels of exercise were even more helpful, lowering the likelihood of dying
2:17.2	during the study by 28 and 35
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