/oss/taxonomy/term/1093/all en /oss/article/infographics/2019-year-review <p>Scroll to the bottom for links to the articles.</p> <p><img height="4448" width="1200" style="width: 600px; height: 2224px;" class="file-original " src="/oss/files/oss/2019_year_in_review-recovered_0.jpg" alt="" /></p> Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:29:54 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 8059 at /oss /oss/article/health/prostate-cancer-and-problem-psa-testing <p> </p> <hr /> <p><em>This article was first published in</em><span> </span><a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-prostate-cancer-and-the-problem-with-psa-testing">The Montreal Gazette<span>.</span></a></p> Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:00:00 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 7977 at /oss /oss/article/food-health-news/prostate-cancer-and-diet <p>Fried foods and simple sugars are out, olive oil, peanut butter and avocados are in. And this time I'm not talking about lowering your cholesterol. I'm talking about increasing the chance of survival from prostate cancer. It isn’t a rare disease, one in six men over their lifetime are affected, although most will die with the disease not because of it. There is a genetic component but what about diet? Two questions arise. Can diet increase the risk of prostate cancer, and if the disease does present can any specific diet improve the odds for survival?</p> Tue, 25 Jun 2013 02:34:18 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 1966 at /oss /oss/article/cancer-controversial-science-food-health-news-quackery-toxicity/walk-gingerly-declaring-ginger-cancer-cure <p>It is not at all unusual to find plant extracts that will kill cancer cells in vitro. There are hundreds of phytochemicals that will do this. Neither is it unusual to find an effect in mice that have implanted tumours. But this is a long way away from demonstrating a viable cancer treatment in humans. In comparison to the number of plant compounds that have shown anti-cancer activity in the lab, the number that have made it through human clinical trials to be adopted into practice have been extremely few.</p> Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:24:23 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2110 at /oss