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’3 simple steps’ campaign for prostate cancer awareness launched

March isn’t only the third month of the year, it is also prostate cancer awareness month, and Men Matter have launched their ’3 simple steps’ campaign as part of their continuing efforts to further raise awareness of both this and other potentially fatal male cancers.

As it is one of the biggest killers amongst men, and [...]

New direction with prostate cancer vaccines

A team of international scientists has announced a new direction in the development of prostate cancer vaccines.  Nature Medicine reports more than 75% of mice have been cured using a vaccine created from healthy cell DNA.

Scientists say these same principles can be applied to other forms of the disease and have begun research on melanoma.  [...]

Prostate cancer related to finger length

A recent study implies that a man’s chances of developing prostate cancer might be calculated by the length of his fingers.  The study compared finger length in men, mostly concentrating on the length of the index finger in relation to the ring finger.

Researchers compared 3000 healthy men to 1500 prostate cancer sufferers.  In the study, [...]