According to the United Kingdom National Health Service, the risk factors for prostate cancer are:

1. Age

More than 60 per cent of cases occur in men over 70, with the largest number being diagnosed in those aged 70 to 79.

2. Family history

Risk increases two to three times for men with a family history of prostate cancer in a first-degree relative, especially a brother.

3. Ethnicity

It is twice as possible for an African American to develop prostate cancer than a Caucasian man. The incidence of prostate cancer is lowest in Asian men.

4. Diet

A diet high in animal fats and proteins may increase the risk of developing prostate cancer.

Homeopathy does not treat the cancer. Homeopathy treats the patient who has cancer… by stimulating the body’s own healing intelligence so as to activate the healing process. This is the essential distinction between the orthodox medical approach to cancer, which seeks to destroy the tumour, and the homeopathic approach, which treats the patient enabling their system to destroy the tumour.

This is how Tamara Der-Ohanian explains the difference between the homeopathic treatment methods and Western medical practices such as chemotherapy and surgery. Homeopathy can also be used in conjunction with conventional treatments if the patient wishes. If you wish to learn more about homeopathic treatment, consult a practitioner near you.

Homeopathy, according to Wikipedia, is a form of alternative medicine that theorizes that an ill person can be treated using a substance that can produce, in a healthy person, symptoms similar to those of the illness. They also prescribe the consumption of natural herbs instead of medicines, supplements, and antibiotics; and plant-based food instead of the Western diets usually dominated by red meat.

This link provides useful information for healthy food and herbs that supposedly prevent and treat prostate cancer. Among the recommendations are:

• lessen your consumption of milk and dairy products
• eat food rich in zinc, vitamin D and E
• eat more tomatoes, fruit, garlic and soy-based food
• herbal remedies for prostate cancer are saw palmetto, pygeum, cernilton, and stinging nettle

Studies have shown that agricultural pesticides increase the risk of having prostate cancer. For these reason, farmers who use certain pesticides have greater risk of developing this disease. According to the United States National Cancer Institute, methyl bromide is directly associated with the increase of risk of developing prostate cancer. Among the persons studied, this type of pesticide is linked risk of the prostate cancer of the entire group. Methyl bromide is used as a soil sterilant and as a general purpose fumigant. There are also other types of pesticide that were associated to the risk of prostate cancer but the studies show that is only to those with a family history of having prostate cancer.

Radical prostatectomy, cryosurgery, maximal androgen blockade. There are a lot of terms you may never have heard of before, but have learn quickly in order to understand this disease and the options for treatment. Prostate-cancer.org has a handy dictionary for you at this link of the common medical terms and acronyms you will need to master. Just click on the letters at the top to read through the dictionary, and click on any linked words that you don’t understand to go directly to the definition of that word.

A PDF file can also be downloaded if you wish to print the dictionary.

A nine year study involving 16,000 Australian men shows that there is no link between the amount and frequency of alcohol consumption and the risk of developing prostate cancer. However, there is evidence to suggest that men who drink alcohol in moderation may have a lower risk of having an aggressive type of prostate cancer and also dying from this cancer.

It is important to find out if moderate alcohol consumption protects against aggressive and fatal prostate cancer, the researches at the University of Melbourne pointed out, because currently “there are no established modifiable risk factors for this common type of cancer.”

Studies have shown an inverse relationship between the ingestion of tomatoes, tomato sauce, and pizza with the development of prostate cancer. Tomatoes and tomato sauce contain high amounts of lycopene, a carotenoid. Other cartenoids are a-carotene, lutein, and b-cryptoxanthin; however, lycopene is the most efficient scavenger of singlet oxygen among the common carotenoids

Just how effective is lycopene as prostate cancer prevention? In a six-year study involving 47,894 men, those who ingested 10 or more servings of tomatoes in several forms (sauce, juice, raw or on pizza) had a 41% reduction in prostate cancer while those who ate four to seven servings per week had a 22% reduction.