In the past few years we have reported on a number of studies indicating that aspirin and other NSAIDs (non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) may protect men against prostate cancer. For example:

Use of aspirin or other NSAIDs increases survival for men with prostate cancer October 5, 2004.

But one study of NSAIDs and cancer turned out to be fake. In April 2005 Dr. Jon Sudbø reported at the annual meeting of American Association for Cancer Research in Anaheim, CA that NSAIDs prevent some cancers but increase cardiovascular deaths. His paper was published in a leading medical journal. But in January 2006 the entire study was revealed as a fake built from fabricated data.

Now a Canadian team has confirmed that men who take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may receive protection against prostate cancer.
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Doctor’s Guide ranks this as the top-read abstract about prostate cancer for the week of March 23, 2006. The stretch of one statistical finding in this study is remarkable - “The recovery of potency following radical prostatectomy varies from 16% to 86%.” This finding is in line with a review a couple of years ago in Greece which found:
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Fresh lemon grass fields in Israel become mecca for cancer patients
By Allison Kaplan Sommer April 02, 2006

At first, Benny Zabidov, an Israeli agriculturalist who grows greenhouses full of lush spices on a pastoral farm in Kfar Yedidya in the Sharon region, couldn’t understand why so many cancer patients from around the country were showing up on his doorstep asking for fresh lemon grass.

It turned out that their doctors had sent them.

“They had been told to drink eight glasses of hot water with fresh lemon grass steeped in it on the days that they went for their radiation and chemotherapy treatments,” Zabidov told ISRAEL21c. “And this is the place you go to in Israel for fresh lemon grass.”

… Researchers at Ben Gurion University of the Negev discovered last year that the lemon aroma in herbs like lemon grass kills cancer cells in vitro, while leaving healthy cells unharmed.
More: Full story by Allison Kaplan Sommer April 02, 2006, at Israel 21c

This is the best ever cookbook of simple delicious everday recipes for men battling prostate cancer, and for their families and friends. David Ricketts, longtime contributing food and recipe editor to Family Circle magazine, had written a dozen cookbooks beforehe was diagnosed with prostate cancer in April 2001 at age fifty-five. After primary treatments, with his doctors encouragement he went to work to create a new way of eating for himself and other men hit by this disease. The result, this cookbook, is a classic keeper which can help you manage your meals everyday. Read our review:
http://www.psa-rising.com/eatingwell/beatpcacookbook_review.html

Help Continue Vital Prostate Cancer Research: Contact your U.S.
Senator Today!

Please contact your Senator and ask her/him to sign the Snowe-Johnson
“Dear Colleague” letter in support of the cancer research
programs at the Department of Defense, specifically urging an $85
million allocation for the Prostate Cancer Research Program.
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