Show 1039: How to Reduce Your Risk from Breast or Prostate Cancer
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K 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 treating each cancer. When should women start getting annual mammograms, for example? How useful are PSA screenings for identifying prostate cancer in men?
Our guests are leading experts on the treatment of these cancers, and they do not shy away from controversy. Get an update on the latest thinking on how you can cut your own risk. You’ll also learn what these two different cancers have in common, and what we know about preventing as well as treating breast or prostate cancer.
The Research Articles:
The research cited on DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) for breast cancer was published in JAMA Oncology in October 2015. The research on prostate cancer that we discussed was published in the New England Journal of Medicine on October 29, 2015.
This Week’s Guests:
Susan Love, MD, is an adjunct professor of Surgery at UCLA and chief visionary officer of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the eradication of breast cancer. You will find it online at http://drsusanloveresearch.org Dr. Love is on the board of the National Cancer Institute. Her best-selling book, Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book, is out in its 6th edition. The photograph is of Dr. Love.
Charles “Snuffy” Myers, MD, is founder and director of the American Institute for Diseases of the Prostate. He is a medical oncologist with prior experience in clinical pharmacology at the National Cancer Institute and as the director of the Cancer Center of the University of Virginia. His goal is comprehensive management of prostate cancer.
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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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