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Cancer: protecting the prostate CANCER: PROTECTING THE PROSTATE
Prostate cancer is to men roughly what breast cancer is to women. Each is far and away the most prevalent cancer for its respective sex, and each is a solid second (behind lung cancer) in deaths caused. And just as its breast-based relative was for women, prostate cancer has become the emblem of middle-age male health angst. It seems like that plum-size gland is going to get you, sooner or later.
But doctors have noticed that men are taking another tip from women. They're fighting back. Proof? Well, how often did you hear prostate cancer or the prostate itself even mentioned 15 years ago?
"Prostate cancer has come out of the closet," Dr. Catalona says. "Everybody knows what a breast is, and everybody knows what a lung is. But until very recently a lot of men didn't know what a prostate was, or where it was."
For the record, your prostate gland surrounds the urethra at the base of your penis and helps produce the semen you're so fond of giving away. It seems to be built to go partially wrong. It often starts to enlarge (benignly) in your forties, and from 30 percent to 50 percent of men in their forties and fifties have precancerous lesions on its surface. Not all develop into cancer, but those that do are, on average, diagnosed at age 72. But with new methods of detection, the age at diagnosis is decreasing.
You don't have to die from prostate cancer. "The disease is definitely treatable," says "warren Heston, Ph.D., director of the George M. O'Brien Urology Research Center at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City." Early detection is very much a big key."
But your best weapon against prostate cancer is not getting it in the first place. And, hey, most guys don't. "About one in five men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime," Dr. Catalona estimates. "So the chances are 80 percent that you won't be."
Not the worst of odds. And you can make them better by adding the following prostate-specific weapons to your anti-cancer arsenal.
Whip up some spaghetti. Vegetables, in general, fight cancer. But it's tomatoes that go right after prostate cancer, according to Dr. Giovannucci, who worked on the Harvard study that came up with this happy I news. Tomatoes are rich in the antioxidant lycopene, which may lower risk
of prostate cancer. "For prostate cancer, it's important to include tomatoes in your diet-tomato sauce, in particular," Dr. Giovannucci says. He suggests two one-cup servings a week.
Grab some soy, boy. Soy products are rich in genistein, a weak estrogen with antioxidant properties that, studies have shown, will slow the progression of prostate cancer. That may explain the fact that Japanese men eat a lot of soy and seldom get prostate cancer, while American men eat almost no soy and get lots of prostate cancer.
Get enough vitamin E. Dr. Heston points to a Finnish study that found that those who took 50 milligrams of vitamin E "actually had a 30 percent reduction in the development of full prostate cancer." Dr. Heston suggests that getting your Daily Value of 30 international units, or about 20 milligrams, would be beneficial.
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