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unusual facts about prostate cancer


Bone tumor

Carcinomas of the prostate, breasts, lungs, thyroid, and kidneys are the carcinomas that most commonly metastasize to bone.


Gil Robbins

Gil Robbins died at his home in Esteban Cantu, Baja California, Mexico from prostate cancer on April 5, 2011, two days after his 80th birthday.

Nikol Faridani

Faridani died on 6 February 2008, after suffering from prostate cancer, pneumonia, and Parkinson's disease.

Olive leaf

Some recent research on the olive leaf has shown its antioxidants to be effective in treating some tumors and cancers such as liver, prostate, colon, skin and breast cancer, clinical studies lacking; Olive leaf is especially potent when used in combination with other antioxidants.

Rectal examination

The Family Guy episode Stewie Loves Lois even uses the rectal exam as the main plot, when Peter Griffin, not realizing it is a routine medical procedure for checking for prostate cancer, thinks he is being "raped".

Vancouver Prostate Centre

The Vancouver Prostate Centre (VPC) is a prostate cancer research centre located in Vancouver, British Columbia.


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Enzalutamide

When LNCaP cells (a prostate cancer cell line) engineered to express elevated levels of AR (as found in patients with advanced prostate cancer) were treated with enzalutamide, the expression of androgen dependent genes PSA and TMPRSS2 was down regulated in contrast to bicalutamide where the expression was upregulated.

Gene D. Cohen

Cohen died at 65 of prostate cancer on November 7, 2009, in Kensington, Maryland.

Gérard Cuny

In October 1958 he participated to the first meeting of the clinical European section of the International Association of Gerontology in Sunderland (England), during which the Nancy school (R. Herbeuval and G. Cuny) will present the "Treatment of prostate cancer and adenoma of the prostate" in the session on "Genito-urinary disturbances in old age."

Prostate cancer screening

American Cancer Society, in its cancer screening guidelines says that it does not support routine screening for prostate cancer.

The American Cancer Society (ACS) has recently updated its guidelines making clear that it does not recommend routine prostate cancer screening for all men.

Stephen Hahn

From 1993-95, he served as chief of the National Cancer Institute’s Prostate Cancer Clinic, Clinical Pharmacology Branch, in Bethesda, Maryland, and as a senior investigator at the NCI.

ZERO—The Project to End Prostate Cancer

ZERO supported other cancer organizations in 2009 in launching the "Stand Up to Cancer" awareness campaign featuring tennis pro John McEnroe, who encouraged men age 40 and older to get an annual prostate cancer check-up.