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Entries from LAist tagged with 'prostate'

August 4, 2008

On Saturday, around 1000 people took park in the first annual Underwear Affair for City of Hope to raise money and awareness for those below-the-waist cancers (prostate, colorectal, cervical, ovarian, kidney, bladder, testicular and uterine) that do not always get the attention they should. It was a first for Los Angeles and the 10K run/5K walk was a success, so they're bringing it back next year (It's good to see an undie run with a......

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July 28, 2008

The Undie Run at UCLA has a cause that is, "hey, school's out, let's get crazy!" The Underwear Affair this upcoming Saturday has a more worthy cause: raising money for prostate, colorectal, cervical, ovarian, kidney, bladder, testicular and uterine cancers. Why these types of cancers? For the most part, these cancers, found below the waist do not get as much exposure due to their location on the body. In terms of buzz about fundraising for......

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December 7, 2006

A recent study has shown that the popular hair-loss drug Propecia can cockblock tests for prostate cancer. In findings that were ironically funded by pharmaceutical giant Merck, the maker of Propecia, the drug that in some cases, can limit the natural disappearance of hair, can also limit the reliability of the commonly used prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. Men using Propecia "should be aware that their PSA will be falsely lowered" and that small changes......

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