Folic Acid Contraindicated For Prostate Cancer
Published on May 26 2010, in the categories: Related Diet
The prognosis for the outcome of the prostate cancer is not that optimistic. The prostate cancer still remains the second most dangerous type of cancer, in America only the lung cancer causes more deaths while all around the world, each year, one in six men gets to be diagnosed with a prostate cancer.
Cancer is regarded as an abnormal medical condition, developing because of the heavy influence of certain factors that allow the multiplication of the cancer cells and the bad functioning of the mitosis and the apoptotic reaction.
The cancerous cells tend to outlive the normal cells and cause their rapid death; a primary tumor is, in the first stages of cancer, organ-confined but without any proper treatment it will eventually spread to some other surrounding areas or to far distance regions of the body and create some other small and secondary tumors.
The spreading process is rather slow, the tumor doubling its size once every four years and because of this, the survival rate of five years after the initial diagnose is of about ninety eight percent.
These general features of cancer also describe the prostate cancer. The spreading process is done through the lymph system and bloodstream and the malignant tumor can be detected in the early stages only with the help of the screening tests and for a more accurate result, the prostate biopsy.
The screening tests include the digital rectal exam, an examination which sounds and is rather unpleasant but accurate enough to determine the size of the prostate and the prostate specific antigen blood test which is a tumor marker and indicates the levels of the prostate specific antigen which should be low in normal circumstances. The results of the screening tests have to be interpreted by doctors and depending on them, the medical specialist will recommend some future investigations.
This is the moment when the prostate biopsy comes in handy, complemented by some newer methods of detection such as the nomogram or the prostate mapping. If cancer is diagnosed, the grading process and the staging system such as the TNM, tumor, nodes and metastatic system or its alternative, the Whitmore-Jewett staging system, will help determine the exact characteristics of the identified prostate cancer, because it is well known the fact that each cancer is unique, even though you are referring to the same type of cancer.
There are certain factors such as the genetic inheritance, age, race, working environment, alimentation that are to be blamed for the apparition of a prostate cancer and because of that the same type of cancer will develop at different stages, in different periods of time with some different treatment results or medical side-effects in different people.
Certain studies have shown that the folic acid can increase and even double the risk of developing a prostate cancer.
Treatments with aspirin alone had no significant effect on the incidence of prostate cancer but the folic acid increased the risk of prostate cancer with about one hundred and sixty three percent.
The study was published in an editorial issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and the result obtained after analyzing the effect of supplements on the prostate cancer wasn’t optimistic at all.
The folic acid is also know as Pteroylglutamic acid, Folate, Vitamin B9 or Folacin and is a B vitamin that helps to body in making new and healthy cells. This vitamin is very important especially for pregnant women because it can prevent major birth defects of a baby’s spine or brain but in general, everyone needs folic acid.
The food products that contain certain amount of folate are the leafy vegetables such as asparagus and spinach, dried or fresh beans, lentils, peas, liver products, cereals and breakfast cereals and pasta, sunflower seeds, broccoli, lettuce, orange juice, tomato juice, beer, grapefruit, raspberry, strawberry, corn, etc.
Seek for a doctor’s advice and consult him about what foods should be avoided if a prostate cancer is diagnosed and on what products should you built yourself a future nutritional diet.
Cancer is regarded as an abnormal medical condition, developing because of the heavy influence of certain factors that allow the multiplication of the cancer cells and the bad functioning of the mitosis and the apoptotic reaction.
The cancerous cells tend to outlive the normal cells and cause their rapid death; a primary tumor is, in the first stages of cancer, organ-confined but without any proper treatment it will eventually spread to some other surrounding areas or to far distance regions of the body and create some other small and secondary tumors.
The spreading process is rather slow, the tumor doubling its size once every four years and because of this, the survival rate of five years after the initial diagnose is of about ninety eight percent.
These general features of cancer also describe the prostate cancer. The spreading process is done through the lymph system and bloodstream and the malignant tumor can be detected in the early stages only with the help of the screening tests and for a more accurate result, the prostate biopsy.
The screening tests include the digital rectal exam, an examination which sounds and is rather unpleasant but accurate enough to determine the size of the prostate and the prostate specific antigen blood test which is a tumor marker and indicates the levels of the prostate specific antigen which should be low in normal circumstances. The results of the screening tests have to be interpreted by doctors and depending on them, the medical specialist will recommend some future investigations.
This is the moment when the prostate biopsy comes in handy, complemented by some newer methods of detection such as the nomogram or the prostate mapping. If cancer is diagnosed, the grading process and the staging system such as the TNM, tumor, nodes and metastatic system or its alternative, the Whitmore-Jewett staging system, will help determine the exact characteristics of the identified prostate cancer, because it is well known the fact that each cancer is unique, even though you are referring to the same type of cancer.
There are certain factors such as the genetic inheritance, age, race, working environment, alimentation that are to be blamed for the apparition of a prostate cancer and because of that the same type of cancer will develop at different stages, in different periods of time with some different treatment results or medical side-effects in different people.
Certain studies have shown that the folic acid can increase and even double the risk of developing a prostate cancer.
Treatments with aspirin alone had no significant effect on the incidence of prostate cancer but the folic acid increased the risk of prostate cancer with about one hundred and sixty three percent.
The study was published in an editorial issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and the result obtained after analyzing the effect of supplements on the prostate cancer wasn’t optimistic at all.
The folic acid is also know as Pteroylglutamic acid, Folate, Vitamin B9 or Folacin and is a B vitamin that helps to body in making new and healthy cells. This vitamin is very important especially for pregnant women because it can prevent major birth defects of a baby’s spine or brain but in general, everyone needs folic acid.
The food products that contain certain amount of folate are the leafy vegetables such as asparagus and spinach, dried or fresh beans, lentils, peas, liver products, cereals and breakfast cereals and pasta, sunflower seeds, broccoli, lettuce, orange juice, tomato juice, beer, grapefruit, raspberry, strawberry, corn, etc.
Seek for a doctor’s advice and consult him about what foods should be avoided if a prostate cancer is diagnosed and on what products should you built yourself a future nutritional diet.
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