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[Disclaimer: I have found the information below largely on the internet. I make mistakes, so do your own research before changing your habits.]
The Prostate Quiz
1. William Fair was head of Urology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. In an address he made in 1998 about complementary medicine after he had contracted colon cancer, he said the following:
“I love surgery, and I’ll still continue to do some surgery. I do it as well as anybody
in the world in my field, and it is really a meditative phenomenon. You are
totally concentrated. There are no telephones ringing. You’re totally
concentrated on the task at hand, which I understand is what meditation is all
about. My goal is to show that there is a natural blend between standard
allopathic or Western medicine and the complementary and alternative techniques
that you all believe in. I honestly feel that the central decision that I
reached is that I think I can do more good in the time I have left in medicine
by trying to preach this message than I can by doing another 1,000 or 2,000 or
5,000 radical prostatectomies.”
The question is this: how many surgeries did he have to endure for colon cancer before he came to his decision to think both inside and outside the box?
a. Two surgeries, and a year of chemotherapy.
b. Three surgeries and a year of chemotherapy.
c. Four surgeries and a year of chemotherapy.
d. Five surgeries and a year of chemotherapy.
2. This substance was isolated and its structure determined in a Merck lab, which never did anything with it. In a small unpublished study funded by the discoverer from the Merck lab, it was found that in 14 out of 15 hormone resistant prostate cancers the PSA went down after the administration of this substance. What is this substance?
a. Selenium methionine.
b. Coenzyme Q10.
c. Lycopene.
d. d-Gamma tocopherol.
e. Green tea extract.
3. It has been demonstrated that prostate cancer is much lower in Chinese populations, so researchers have been trying to find the reason for this.
A study of green tea showed that only one man in a group of 32 men at high risk for prostate cancer developed the disease, compared to nine in a group of 30 controls. Numerous studies had shown that green tea catechins, or pure EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate) inhibited cancer cell growth in laboratory models. We wanted to conduct a clinical trial to find out whether catechins could prevent cancer in men. The answer is clearly yes.”
All the men recruited for the study had high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia – premalignant lesions that presage invasive prostate cancer within one year in nearly a third of cases. Men were between 45 and 75 years of age. Vegetarians, green tea consumers, those taking antioxidants, or those taking anti-androgenic therapy were excluded.
Of the 62 in the study, 32 received 200 mg of green tea catechins 3 times per day (or 600 mg per day total), the rest got a placebo. Follow-up biopsies were administered after six months and again after one year. Nine cases of prostate cancer were found in the control group.
Amount taken: 600 mg
Question: How many cases of prostate cancer were found in the experimental group taking the green tea extract?
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four
e. Five
4. A Fred
a. 15%
b. 32%
c. 53%
d. 60%
e. 75%
5. The same
a. 30% occasional leaking, 10% frequent leaking.
b. 40% occasional leaking, 7% frequent leaking.
c. 12% occasional leaking, 5% frequent leaking.
d. 45% occasional leaking, 12% frequent leaking.
e. 25% occasional leaking, 6% frequent leaking.
6. Researchers at the Stanford University of Medicine found that two substances combined reduced prostate cancer growth in a laboratory dish by 70%. What are those two substances:
a. Selenium and vitamin E.
b. Vitamin D and ibuprofen.
c. Lycopene and green tea extract.
d. Saw palmetto and IP6 (inositol hexaphosphate).
e. Beta-sitosterol and pomegranate extract.
7. Dr. Larry Clark in a 1996 study found that selenium reduced the incidence of prostate cancer by what percentage?
a. 13%
b. 22%
c. 37%
d. 45%
e. 63%
8. Benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) is the abnormal growth of prostate cells. What two substances have been shown to kill BPH cells?
a. Ibuprofen and genistein.
b. Vitamin D and lycopene.
c. Aspirin and green tea extract.
d. Indole extract and IP6.
e. Tocotrienols and Vitamin C.
9. Garlic and onions. The National Cancer Institute conducted a
population-based study in
How much lower was the risk in the men who ate the most garlic and onions, than the men with the lowest intake?
a. 11%
b. 23%
c. 35%
d. 50%
e. 62%
10. Apparently, there is a substance that can effect the expression of a gene in men who have the defect in their chromosomes which causes prostate cancer. Mice engineered with a genetic defect that can cause prostate cancer were fed various diets. In the control group of mice, which did not have the genetic defect, there was 100% survival. In the best group of the experimental animals, 60% survived with the defect. Yong Q. Chen, Ph.D. from Wake Forest University School of Medicine said this, “This suggests that if you have good genes, it may not matter too much what you eat, but if you have a gene that makes you susceptible to prostate cancer, your diet can tip the balance.”
What was the substance Dr. Chen used in his experiment?
a. Selenium
b. Omega-3 oil
c. IP6 (inositol hexaphosphate)
d. d-Gamma tocopherol
e. Lycopene
11. A PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) reading of above 4 indicates what chance of prostate cancer?
a. 99%
b. 85%
c. 73%
d. 50%
e. 25%