http://www.diabetes.org/diabetesnewsarticle.jsp?storyId=18900146&file…
or
http://tinyurl.com/5j8qgy
(excerpt)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drugs used to control diabetes may lower
the risk of prostate cancer, investigators at the University of
Tampere in Finland report.
"Recent studies have reported a decreased prostate cancer risk for
diabetic men, although the evidence is controversial," Dr. Teemu J.
Murtola and colleagues note in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
"It is currently unclear whether use of antidiabetic medication
affects the association between diabetes and prostate cancer."
To investigate, the investigators studied a group of men diagnosed
prostate cancer and a group of "control" men without prostate cancer.
The total cohort comprised 24,723 case-control pairs. The
investigators also used a comprehensive prescription database to
obtain information on medication use.
Oral diabetes drugs were used by 7.5 percent of men with prostate
cancer and by 8.4 percent of controls. The prevalence of insulin use
was 2.5 percent in the cases and 3.0 percent in the controls.
Men who had a history of taking any diabetes medication had a 16
percent lower risk of prostate cancer, Murtola’s team found.
"Kurt" <kurtwheeling1…@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.diabetes.org/diabetesnewsarticle.jsp?storyId=18900146&file…
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/5j8qgy
> (excerpt)
> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drugs used to control diabetes may lower
> the risk of prostate cancer, investigators at the University of
> Tampere in Finland report.
> "Recent studies have reported a decreased prostate cancer risk for
> diabetic men, although the evidence is controversial," Dr. Teemu J.
> Murtola and colleagues note in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
> "It is currently unclear whether use of antidiabetic medication
> affects the association between diabetes and prostate cancer."
I think I’ve read recently that many types of cancer cells have lost
the ability to get their energy from anything but glucose. If so,
those types of cancer are less likely to have a high growth rate
after you lower your blood glucose, regardless of how you
lower it.
On Nov 19, 9:27 pm, "Robert Miles" <robertmi…@bellsouthNOSPAM.net>
wrote:
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> news:47e4082c-82c9-486c-b08b-deaec560a94f@r15g2000prh.googlegroups.com…
> >http://www.diabetes.org/diabetesnewsarticle.jsp?storyId=18900146&file…
> > or
> >http://tinyurl.com/5j8qgy
> > (excerpt)
> > NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drugs used to control diabetes may lower
> > the risk of prostate cancer, investigators at the University of
> > Tampere in Finland report.
> > "Recent studies have reported a decreased prostate cancer risk for
> > diabetic men, although the evidence is controversial," Dr. Teemu J.
> > Murtola and colleagues note in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
> > "It is currently unclear whether use of antidiabetic medication
> > affects the association between diabetes and prostate cancer."
> I think I’ve read recently that many types of cancer cells have lost
> the ability to get their energy from anything but glucose. If so,
> those types of cancer are less likely to have a high growth rate
> after you lower your blood glucose, regardless of how you
> lower it.
Interesting. And it makes sense that keeping any "number" as close to
normal as possible – weight, blood pressure, temperature, cholesterol,
blood glucose, etc. – will be a huge benefit to one’s health.
Kurt