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		<title>Bermudan parliament weighs in on prostate cancer treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One would hardly expect the treatment of prostate cancer to become an issue for fierce debate in the Bermudan Parliament. However, this seems to have occurred yesterday in a heated argument over treatment of men with high-intensity focused ultrasound or HIFU. According to the Royal Gazette Online, one member of the parliament appears to have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pccaribbean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4696016&amp;post=1773&amp;subd=pccaribbean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chlordecone use linked to prostate cancer in Guadeloupe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 1973 to 1993 the estrogenic insecticide chlordecone (marketed as Kepone) was widely used in the French West Indies to control pests in the banana crop. Chlordecone does not degrade in the environment, and it is known to persist in water and in the soil. Humans are most commonly exposed to chlordecone through their food. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pccaribbean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4696016&amp;post=1771&amp;subd=pccaribbean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pesticides and prostate cancer in Martinique?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Landau-Ossondo et al. have published additional data suggesting that there may be a correlation between the use of certain types of pesticide and the growing incidence of prostate cancer (and perhaps breast cancer) on the French West Indian island of Martinique, and that this increasing incidence of prostate cancer cannot be exclusively explained by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pccaribbean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4696016&amp;post=1764&amp;subd=pccaribbean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pesticides and prostate cancer on Guadeloupe and Martinique</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study just published by Belpomme et al. analyzes risk for prostate cancer on the  islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in order to gain further insight into the etiology (underlying causes) of prostate cancer. In 2002, the age standardized rate of prostate cancer on these two islands was 152 new cases per 100,000 person-years, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pccaribbean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4696016&amp;post=1757&amp;subd=pccaribbean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food patterns, prostate cancer, and Jamaican men</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jackson et al. have studied  the association between dietary patterns and risk of prostate cancer in Jamaican men by conducting a case-control study of the diets of 204 histologically confirmed, newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients and 204 matched control patients attending urology clinics in Jamaica between 2004 and 2007. Diet was assessed by food frequency [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pccaribbean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4696016&amp;post=1753&amp;subd=pccaribbean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prostate cancer risk among men of African descent</title>
		<link>http://pccaribbean.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/prostate-cancer-risk-among-men-of-african-descent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Odedina et al. have reviewed available data on the incidence, prevalence, and mortality rates of  prostate cancer among African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and men in West African nations historically associated with the trans-Atlantic slave trade. They note the very high incidence of prostate cancer among all these groups, which appears to reflect an ancestral genetic predisposition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pccaribbean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4696016&amp;post=1750&amp;subd=pccaribbean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bahamas artist does work for prostate cancer prevention</title>
		<link>http://pccaribbean.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/bahamas-artist-dones-work-for-prostate-cancer-prevention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bahamas-based artist Thierry Lamare has donated two of his paintings in support of a fundraiser for prostate cancer and breast cancer prevention.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pccaribbean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4696016&amp;post=1747&amp;subd=pccaribbean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Physical activity and prostate cancer mortality in Puerto Rican males</title>
		<link>http://pccaribbean.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/physican-activity-and-prostate-cancer-mortality-in-puerto-rican-males/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Puerto Rico Heart Health Program was a study of nearly 10,000 men in Puerto Rico aged between 35 and 79 years when the study started in 1965. The program was supervised by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (a part of the US National Institutes of Health). The men were followed until they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pccaribbean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4696016&amp;post=1740&amp;subd=pccaribbean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prostate cancer in Jamaica: a 6-year review</title>
		<link>http://pccaribbean.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/prostate-cancer-in-jamaica-a-6-year-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent study by Coarde and Skeete has suggested little change in the histopathology of prostate cancer diagnosed in Jamaica over the period 2002 to 2005, and that the results of this study are consistent with the lack of a national prostate cancer screening program in Jamaica. Details of the results of this study are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pccaribbean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4696016&amp;post=1733&amp;subd=pccaribbean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Only 1 in 5 Jamaican Men Get Screened for Prostate Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This according to an article in the online version of today&#8217;s Jamaica Observer, based on data from the 2007/8 Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey II released earlier this week. The study in fact showed the following: The study included 887 Jamaican men 79 percent or 701 of these men had never had a physical exam for prostate cancer. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pccaribbean.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4696016&amp;post=1726&amp;subd=pccaribbean&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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