Vitamin D deficiency could be the reason African American men experience more aggressive prostate cancer at a younger age compared with European American men, research from Cedars-Sinai Cancer suggests. The multi-institutional study, published in Cancer Research Communications, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, could pave the way for revised nutritional guidelines.
A growing number of prostate cancer experts argue that calling the lowest-risk prostate cancer “cancer” does more harm than good. A UCLA-led study found removing the cancer label could dramatically reduce overtreatment and encourage more men to get screened, potentially leading to significantly fewer deaths from aggressive prostate cancer.
