Show t ’W ajICTlAiATKtA i " i f V'- ' ‘fi f 't'r i hi?-- r ‘Vv antiels of PSA or prostate-specif32000 men that willinvestigate whether selenium and vitamin E can gen PSA is a common indicator of prostate cancer and is generally used to test for the cancer and measure its 1 ' ic - Petersburg Times Long a staple of health-foo- d stores and vegetarian diets soy- based foods have gone mainstream -floating on die notion that it’s good ' for yon So is it? Cancer researchers are trying to find out Investigators at die H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Ikmpa Fla are recruiting men with early stage prostate cancer to determine if a daily soy supplement will slow their cancer It is one of several clinical trials nationally that are attempting to determine if soy has g or prevention properties The study which seeks 64 men between die ages of SO and 80 follows a small pilot study at Moffitt with promising results: Prostate cancer patients who ate more soy had mailed reductions in their blood lev severity “If we can affect the disease from progressing we've done something there” said Dr Nagi Kumar director of die department of nutrition and investigator in the cancer-contrdivision at Moffitt The goal is to prevent the cancer from becoming a “huge prostate cancer where the prostate has to be removed and all die consequences of that” she said “It’s a V chemo-prc-venti- on The prostate is a walnut-size- d gland between the bladder and penis Prostate cancer will be diagnosed in about 198000 American men this year and 31500 will die from it the American Cancer Society says Evidence is building that several foods or supplements can help The National Cancer Institute recently announced a national trial involving - Dr Nag Kumar prevent it When Asians moved to the United States and adopted Western diets and lifestyles however their cancer rates sah chief of the federal disease centers’ Cardiovascular Health Program “But what we have not addressed is how a person’s environment has an impact on those same risk A similar report on women was produced last year The highest death rates “are found in the regions of the country with the poorest economies and few health-ca- re resources in particularly underdeveloped rural areas” said Elizabeth Barnett director of die Office for Social Environment and Health Research at West Virginia University and lead author of the report “We all know that personal choices like not smoking and a healthy diet and getting exercise are critical factors in helping to prevent heart dis-- 1 said Dr George Men-- “It makes a big difference whether you live someplace that has die networks in place that help support those personal decisions” The report shows that while h the overall annual rate for men over 35 is 675 per 100000 the rate is just 432 for Hispanics 666 for whites and 841 for African Americans Counties with the lowest death rates woe primarily in the West as well as in parts of Florida Minnesota and Michi- gan Among states Mississippi ted heart-deat- West Virginia and Kentucky had die highest rates of heart deaths across all racial and ethnic groups while Hawaii Utah and Colorado had die ' lowest Men in most major metropolitan areas had low to moddeath rates erate New York for City except which experts say may reflect a relatively large number of disadvantaged people living there Hispanic men had die highrates in rural est heart-deacounties of Texas New Mexico Arizona and in the Miami metro area Rates were lowest in Northern California the Pacific Northwest and most of Florida and in cities such as Boston New Orleans and Washington DC heart-disea- se th Coping with panic disorder IlIrhianY Wnivia By Toledo Blade fear of leaving'hoine They ' may stop working going to school or shopping and become recluses Left untreated panic disorder also can lead to clinical depression and a risk of attempted suicide is about 20 times higher than with people in the general population Fortunately panic disorder can be treated easily with medications or a type of brief psychotherapy Getting a diagnosis may mean going through a battery of medical tests to make sure that the symptoms are not caused by heart disease or some other disorder Panic disorder does not occur because a person is emotionally “weak” most research suggests panic disorder results from a malfunction in brain circuits fear add unpleasant physical sensations The attacks usually peak within 10 minutes and then pass Doctors use a different term — panic disorder — for panic attacks that happen again and again interfering with everyday life Panic disorder is among a whole group of diseases called anxiety disorders that affect an estimated 1 out of every 4 persons in the United States Panic disorder can be disabling making it impossible for people to keep jobs perform routine activities travel and keep social ties That’s because many people with pmic disorder develop phobias about places and situations where panic attacks have occurred Then they begin avoiding those places Some people with panic disorder develop agoraphobia a The fear hits like a punch It happens in a shopping mall on the street in a crowded room Your heart pounds and it’s difficult to breathe You may feel dizzy weak lightheaded tremble develop chest pain tingling sensations chills hot flashes or abdominal distress The overwhelming sensation is terror — that you are going to die have a heart attack go insane or fall victim to some other catastrophe The spell passes but may happen again without warning An estimated 25 million people experience at least one panic attack like that every year according to die National Institute of Mental Health Panic attacks are sudden unexplainable spells of intense increased and eventually they became as cancer-pron- e as native-born Americans So were their American-bor- n children ' This was especially true of prostate cancer In Japan prostate cancer is rare and even when men develop it they typically don’t get aggressive strains They die with it not from it Scientists quickly noted the differences in Easton and Western diets and a landmark study from the University of Helsinki in Finland found that nowhere was the difference more marked than in the consumption of soy The Japanese eat lots of it Americans historically eat virtually none “We knew that there was some kind of hormonal properties in soy that probably affects hormonal cancers” such as cancers of the breast endometrium and prostate Kumar said When given to premenopausal women isoflavones found in soy appear to bind with free or unneeded estrogen reducing its level in the blood This type of estrogen doesn’t affect sex drive the menstrual cycle or other necessary functions but can cause a proliferation of endometrium and breast tissues which can be precursors to cancer In men soy appears to bind with free testosterone reducing its level in the blood too This testosterone doesn’t affect the sex drive muscle mass or hair growth but can encourage prostate growth Reducing its levels should slow or prevent prostate cancer Kumar said “It has a lot of promise And by this we don’t mean take a tablet or anything but introduce soy in your diet as much as possible maybe even two or three times a week” Kumar said Good sources include miso tofu and soy nuts she said deaths region by region heart-relate- d It looks at data on 17 million deaths of men over age 35 from heart disease between 1991 and 1995 down to the city and county level se mean take a tablet or anything but introduce soy in your diet as much as possible maybe even two or three times a week” trial” Mapping out By Lm Banian Scripps Howard News Service belt for A men runs through the rural South from the Mississippi Valley into Appalachia and across the cotton belt of Georgia and the Carolinas a new government atlas of heart deaths shows It also shows that black men living almost anywhere are more likely than whites or Hispanics to be among the 356000 American males who die of heart disease each year The 231 --page document released Wednesday titled “Men and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality” was produced by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and West Virginia University “It has a lot of promise And by this we don’t ol cancer-fightin- heart-disea- - iVOV n WnKS St The Herald Journal Loigan Utah Tuesday September 25 2001 — C3 h i""' By - :" i A!'-- ' ' j Women across all ethnic 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