What You Can Eat to Defeat Cancer

What You Can Eat to Defeat Cancer
Dr. Oz and I recently spoke about important new research that is showing that how you select, prepare and consume foods can be a powerful weapon for preventing cancer. The reason for this lies in our capillaries, the thousands of tiny blood vessels present in almost every square millimeter of our bodies.

Well Steve...there goes my theory on the the "Secret Sauce" in the Big Mac. What was I thinking...<grin>

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You are beating back cancer, so hold your head up with dignity

Cooked tomatoes.  We have a Bingo, people.  NE Irish loves 'em, and the flounder is okay with him too.  Thank you for the posting, StevenD.  You'd mentioned this link on another thread.

Its interesting but makes sense that cooked tomatoes are better then raw one.

On a similar note - I've read many things about almonds being good for you..But the other day I read that really really chewing them is even better.

Interesting post.
It begs the question, can you cook tomatoes and eat them cold, later in say, a sandwich
or do they need to be hot?

I caught the show on TV and it was interesting.

If there are foods to eat that starve the cancer, is there any research on foods to avoid because they promote angiogenesis?

I know that Dr. Walsh's book states that red meat and dairy feed cancer cell growth.

Mike

They probabvly need to be reduced to sauce for the Lycopene.

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Dx with PC Dec 2008 at 56, PSA 3.4


Biopsy: T1c, Geason 7 (3+4) - 8 cores taken with 4 positive for PCa, 30% of all 4 cores.

Robotic Surgery March 2009 Hartford Hospital, Dr Wagner
Pathology Report: T2c, Geason 8, organ confined, negitive margins, lymph nodes negitive - tumor volume 9%
nerves spared, no negitive side effects of surgery

One night in hospital, back to work in 3 weeks

psa Jun 09 <.01
psa Oct 09 <.01
psa Jan 10 .07 re-test one week later .05
psa Mar 10 .28 re-test two weeks later .31
psa May 10 .50

April 10 MRI and Bone Scan show lesion on lower spine, false positive.

Started HT 5/25/10 with 3 month shot of Trelstar. SRT scheduled for late July

psa July 10 <.01 HT at work

I think that I'll go out and get a pound of shrimp and cocktail sauce. Or perhaps I should put the cocktail sauce on flounder (yuk).

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Dx with PC Dec 2008 at 56, PSA 3.4


Biopsy: T1c, Geason 7 (3+4) - 8 cores taken with 4 positive for PCa, 30% of all 4 cores.

Robotic Surgery March 2009 Hartford Hospital, Dr Wagner
Pathology Report: T2c, Geason 8, organ confined, negitive margins, lymph nodes negitive - tumor volume 9%
nerves spared, no negitive side effects of surgery

One night in hospital, back to work in 3 weeks

psa Jun 09 <.01
psa Oct 09 <.01
psa Jan 10 .07 re-test one week later .05
psa Mar 10 .28 re-test two weeks later .31
psa May 10 .50

April 10 MRI and Bone Scan show lesion on lower spine, false positive.

Started HT 5/25/10 with 3 month shot of Trelstar. SRT scheduled for late July

psa July 10 <.01 HT at work

Steve,

There was a fairly lengthy posting several days ago about foods that I see you were not in...the title of the thread was "PSA test strategy" (http://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=35&p=2&m=1894904), but the discussion was mostly about foods.

This is a very timely post for me. I'm the guy who started the thread Casey mentioned about the effects of food on PSA. For the last 10 days or so I have been consuming 2 - 3 bowls of homemade tomato sauce and veggies. Oatmeal with nuts for breakfast. No sweets, no beer, no fun in the bedroom, no cheating on the test. The test is tomorrow (Wednesday) so in a week I should know if the heathful diet had the effect of driving my PSA down into the ground where it belongs. Btw, the sauce recipe calls for one garlic but we throw in 10 - 12 garlics! Not cloves.

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Age: 63
Gleason grade: 3+4=7, present in both lobes, pT2c NX MX
Robotic RP: Sept. 15th, 2009
PSA's: .04, .03, .02, .05 (darn)
ED: Improvement slow but there are positive signs. No incontinent issues.
Surgery: Dr. Jim Hu. Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's, Boston

If we die from the diet, does that count as defeating the cancer ?

Just kidding of course !

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Goodlife

Here is a link to a good presentation on nutrition and prostate cancer from UCSF.

http://urology.ucsf.edu/patientGuides/flash/PCaNutrition_154315.html  This is very comprehensive.

Red Nighthawk says with cooking, "the sauce recipe calls for one garlic but we throw in 10 - 12 garlics! Not cloves." And he lists among things he's doing without, "no sex in the bedroom." Well, duh! 12 garlics! I imagine Mrs, Red Nighthawk is checked in at a Motel 8. Or a Four Seasons. Anywhere but near those 12 garlics.

Sheldon AKA Sleeples

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Age 67 in Apil '09 at news of 4 of 12 cores positive T2B and Gleason 3 + 3 and 5% to 25% PSA 1.5

With 12 garlics, if that was meant to be literal, our friend will never die by Death by Vampire. My, that is a lot of garlic, lol.

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Age: 58, 56 dx, PSA: 7/07 5.8, 10/08 16.3
3rd Biopsy: 9/08 7 of 7 Positive, 40-90%, Gleason 4+3
open RP: 11/08, on catheters for 101 days
Path Rpt: Gleason 3+4, pT2c, 42g, 20% cancer, 1 pos marg
Incont & ED: None
Post Surgery PSA: 2/09 .05,5/09 .1, 6/09 .11. 8/09 .16
Post SRT PSA: 1/10 .12, 4/8 .04, 8/6 .06 11/10 ?
Latest: 6 Corr Surgeries to Bladder Neck, SP Catheter since 10/1/9, SRT 39 Sess/72 gy ended 11/09, on Catheter #21, will be having Ileal Conduit Surgery in Sept.

The radiation oncologist at Emory who is following me now and watching the psa told me to eat 2 teaspoons of tomato paste each day, it is more concentrated and contains a lot of the lycopene since it is concentrated.  Doesn't tasted that well, maybe I need to put some of that garlic in it

Kill two birds with one stone and add strawberries to it