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Article: High Blood Calcium Levels Put Men At Greater Risk For Fatal Prostate Cancer
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- The Culvert Chronicles
- Article date:
- September 11, 2008
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Prostate cancer is the second most common form of cancer in men, with about 780,000 men being diagnosed annually. It is the sixth mostly deadly form of cancer in men, causing approximately 250,000 deaths annually, according to the American Cancer Society. For years, doctors have searched for ways to predict whether prostate cancer patients will develop a tumor of little threat, or one that will become fatal. Although blood calcium has not been found to be very predictive of whether a man will get non-lethal prostate cancer, it has been found in a recent study to be very indicative of those men who will develop fatal prostate cancer tumors.
According to the new study published by U.S. ...