Prostate in a sentence as a noun

80% of men in their 70s have prostate cancer.

My stepdad just got cured of prostate cancer, and no, not with weird-*** stuff either.

And, crucially, what happened to the prostates of the mice?

The jury is still out I suppose, but a number of doctors believe prostate exams are doing more harm than good.

There have been similar issues around prostate cancer and things like "Movember".

Recent articles have tied omega 3 intake to increased risk of prostate cancer.

Even cheaper, prostate cancer can usually be left alone and never **** or impact the patient at all.

Prostate in a sentence as an adjective

Did they administer carcinogens, or use mutant mice with cancer-prone prostates?

I empathize with that feeling, but would point out that if they were people, Intel would be getting yearly prostate screenings, Accenture would be retired, and Nintendo would be dead.

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc - "he tried a controversial holistic treatment, therefore he was cured" - My father was cured of prostate cancer just after he quit smoking.

BUT consider you are treating an 80year old man for pneumonia and when he dies the autopsy discovers he had undiagnosed prostate cancer - is that 'really' a medical error death?Then there are around 100,000 deaths due to hospital infections.

Not sure that hacker news needs an in depth analysis of the trial design and outcome, but anyway...In summary, the trial looked at patients who had incurable prostate cancer that had spread and stopped responding to traditional hormonal treatments.

"since men at large are not discriminated against based on their gender"Some examples at random: percentage of males in teaching professions, and/or daycare?Breast cancer funding and research versus prostate cancer funding and research, despite the relative frequency of each?

Similarly, I imagine the guy who wrote The China Study could post better results than that... most diets will!What they've got statistically significant, but pretty much any diet that cuts out processed foods alone will show statistically significant changes...The sole really impressive thing is the prostate cancer improvements: but there are too many confounding factors to determine what, precisely, is causing the improvements.

Prostate definitions

noun

a firm partly muscular chestnut sized gland in males at the neck of the urethra; produces a viscid secretion that is the fluid part of semen

adjective

relating to the prostate gland

See also: prostatic