LONDON — Like UV rays and diesel exhaust fumes, working the graveyard shift will soon be listed as a %26quot;probable%26quot; cause of cancer.

It is a surprising step validating a concept once considered wacky. And it is based on research that finds higher rates of breast and prostate cancer among women and men whose work day starts after dark.

The higher cancer rates don%26#039;t prove working overnight can cause cancer. There may be other factors common among graveyard shift workers that raise their risk for cancer.

However, scientists suspect that overnight work is dangerous because it disrupts the circadian rhythm, the body%26#039;s biological clock. The hormone melatonin, which can suppress tumor development, is normally produced at night.

However, scientists suspect that overnight work is dangerous because it disrupts the circadian rhythm, the body%26#039;s biological clock. The hormone melatonin, which can suppress tumor development, is normally produced at night.|||i wonder how much that bogus study cost tax payers. i am 66 and retired but worked nights for 20 years, no cancer, heart is strong, sexual drive is as good as ever and no blood pressure problems. my average bed time was 5 a.m. and slept an average 6 hrs. a night. whoops i mean morning with a 20 to 30 minute snooze in afternoon. my conclusion is good eating habits . moderation as far as drinking, my draw back is smoking, and my dad passed at 84. the doctors said he died of lung cancer, guess what? he didn%26#039;t smoke, i think maybe contacted lung cancer because at his age he couldn%26#039;t fend off all the other toxins in our society, which by the way are there day or night. p.s. don%26#039;t tempt fate and start smoking i believe it will be what does me in, i say maybe in about 20 years. seriously i think most ailments are either genetic or unhealthy living and has nothing to do with a.m. or p.m.|||i don%26#039;t it is just like working in the day but at night people r crazy|||Everything causes cancer these days. I%26#039;m at my most creative at night time. So i don%26#039;t care.|||Yes! I always got sick after working 3 nights in a row. I am sure that there is something to be said for messing with the body%26#039;s circadian rhythm.|||The first of these reports came out twenty years ago, about nurses and breast cancer. I worked the night shift for about twenty years. So far, I haven%26#039;t turned up with it. But you have to learn how to read statistics. If something says such and such increases the risk by threefold, and the previous risk was 1 out of 100,000, then it now becomes 3 out of 100,000. To me that%26#039;s not clinically significant, but the statistic sounds scary.

I think the most important thing is, if you work the night shift, keep to that schedule on your days off as much as possible. That way your circadian rhythm gets normalized for night work. Personally, I believe the most disease-causing work situation is when people are forced to rotate from day shift to evenings to nights on a short-term basis, which means their bodies can never adjust.|||it nearly killed me, till I saw the light and quit.|||I worked nightshift in a factory for 5 years.Its a diffrent world.I was surrounded by drug users all the time.People would go out to the parking lot to drink,tweek,get high and have sex.I still work in the factory but on dayshift .Its so much better.I sleep better for sure and im not constantly partying like I was.For night shifter its often a party when they get off work at 3am.Also no one respects your sleeping and they call ,knock and mow yards all day long. I was really pretty mild compared to most of the people I worked with. I never used crystal but you rely on pills at time to drag you through.Day shift is plain easier too.The best bosses work days.They always have more worker for days.Nights was always short handed so that I would be doing a job by myself that day shift had 3 people doing.

Lately, after that British research about prostat health and mastrub. , it seems that quiet many are encouraging men to masturbate. Doctors say that it%26#039;s dicrease prostate cancer possibilties.

So what someone, who stoped or even never started to do it, should do (in case of no regular sex)?

It%26#039;s of course logical that we- men, want to do what%26#039;s good for our health but is it really so proved? i don%26#039;t have nothing against yhose who do that but is it really as beneficial as for example vitamins? Is there other thinks that could prevent prostate cancer?

Does many doctors encourage it?|||I don%26#039;t think it matters if masturbation is good for your health or not, you are still going to do it because it feels good….|||Actually, statistically if a man lives to a very old age, he will most likely develop prostate cancer anyway but that won%26#039;t be what kills him.

There are psychological aspects that masturbation is linked too and the negative effects there probably outweigh the supposedly healthy aspects of it.|||There is a higher risk of prostate cancer if you don%26#039;t have sex of any kind, according to research, but you are likely to have nocturnal emissions as a result so you still release semen and sperm. Most men develop some problem with their prostate as they get older.|||There is a long list of factors that they %26quot; believe%26quot; to help prevent prostate cancer. Not masturbating will not hurt you.|||Yeah go nuts , ,just get stronger glasses every year.

bUT THATS oK , CHICKS DIG GUYS IN SPECS.|||No, contrary to popular myth, there are plenty of guys who are physically, sexually, and mentally very healthy and who do not masturbate. I am one. There%26#039;s nothing wrong with doing it if you want to, but nothing bad is going to happen if, like me, you find solo sex completely unappealing.|||it doesn%26#039;t have such good effects ,i mean it%26#039;s bad effects are more.when you masturbate because of speed you may hurt your penis.and because most of parents know it bad you must keep it private so it will remain some psychological problems on you.and because its easier than sex you will do it more and you will lose your control on your ejaculation,so when you get marry and try to have sex with your wife you will *** sooner than your wife and this will bother her so much.so try not to masturbate or if you can%26#039;t stop ,do it once a week.keep yourself busy,do some excercises,eat well and try to masturbate as few times as possible.|||In a healthy male masturbation is a norm. I haven%26#039;t heard about any research regarding cancer, but I don know that sperm is like any living organism, it has a life span of 4 to 6 weeks inside you and then dies being replaced with new sperm. The dead sperm is expelled when you urinate. It is in the a.m. urination, discoloured, thick and causes pain; decreases with each urination of the day for about 2 days. The way to avoid the expulsion with the pain if you don%26#039;t have sex or masturbate is if you have a strenuous job/exercise.|||No real difference either way, your balls are producing sperm cells as you read this, but once they mature, they will be reabsorbed by your body if not used or ejaculated. Ejaculation by masterbation or intercourse is the same physiological reaction, so there is really no difference other than one is more fun.

Everything is for good. Osama gets credit for many new inventions. He can patent his inventions. It is a proof that constructive people find light even in destructions. Indian has to learn lot of lessons from it.

Can drugs induce cancer cells to commit suicide? That%26#039;s the goal of Apo2L/ TRAIL, a protein jointly developed by Genentech (DNA ) and Amgen (AMGN ) that activates two different cell-suicide pathways. In the first clinical trial of the drug, cancer growth was halted in 26 of 37 patients assessed.

A second cell-suicide drug, Astellas Pharma%26#039;s YM155, was tested in 41 patients with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, prostate cancer, and colon cancer. The tumors shrank in five. Side effects for both drugs were far less than found with standard chemo.|||Interesting theory, never heard it before, or if I did, I did not pay much attention to it. You have any links or source to this? Thanks!

I am worried about prostate cancer and I dod not want to do a biopsy if it is not needed. my psa is 2.0 do i need further testing for prostate cancer.|||First of all go see your doctor. But a PSA isn%26#039;t high until it is above 4.0, but if last year your PSA was 0.3 and then this year your PSA is 2.0 that is a significant increase and may indicate further testing. There are 2 types of PSA test, total and free. Usually screening test are only total PSA in the blood and if the lvl is concerning they do a free level. Then they take the two results and get a ratio that tell them the percent chance that it could be prostate cancer. Usually a biopsy test isn%26#039;t the first thing done, usually an ultrasound is. Also, PSA doesn%26#039;t mean cancer it is just an indicator for inflammation, which could be caused by cancer. Doctors just use this lab to see if further testing may be needed and to try to catch it early. Hope this helps. Take care!

P.S. go talk to your doctor :)|||Only your urologist can decide if further testing and a biopsy is needed. Follow your urologist recommentations.|||Did you only have one Test / reading? If so don%26#039;t fret, my first test was 4.5, the doctor tested me again a week later and it was well below the acceptable level. All subsequent tests have been in the normal range.|||you dont need. a PSA more than 6 may be needed for biopsy. mine was 5 and now it is 3 and is normal now.

I see this comparision pop up continually during declawing debates and I don%26#039;t know how these people are making a logical connection between these operations. Spaying and neutering have benefits for the owner such as decreased tendencies to roam, decreased aggression, decreased incedence of urine marking, and absnece of annoying heat cycles. However, spaying and neutering also benefit the animal: Neutered animals have no risk of developing testicular cancer and a decreased risk of prostate cancer; spayed animals have no risk of developing ovarian and uterine cancers, no risk of developing ovarian cysts or other abnormalities, a significantly decreased risk of developing mammary cancer if spayed before their first heat, and the complications associated with pregnancy and queening (birthing) are elimated as well. Furthermore, spaying and neutering helps conserve taxpayer money (less animals to care for and/or euthanize at the shelters) and benefits the population of pets as a whole.|||Beacuse I have a right to do as I please to live with MY animals. I worked hard to design and furnish my home. I do not want it destroyed by my cats. I had to replace one drapery panel before the cats went to get declawed. It was either declawing or living outside and the hazzards that would involve. They prefer the living inside.|||I really have nothing to add. I completely support your position.

Actually, my wife has worked at an animal shelter for about 15 years and has never heard of this comparison. She also says that declawing only replaces one set of issues with another, since declawed cats sometimes have litter box problems and can become biters since they have lost their main means of self defense.

I guess I DID have something to add. ;%26gt;)|||You are absolutely correct! There are no benefits medical or otherwise to cats that are declawed.

It can actually cause problems for them, making walking needlessly painful. It is a cruel practice and I believe that if potential cat owners are worried about their furnishings being scratched, they should not own cats.|||You%26#039;re on a roll! Good question, as it (just as the other posts on declawing today) might actually wake some people up.

There is no logic to that comparison. The reasons you give are obvious, I don%26#039;t have to add to them and I don%26#039;t think they need any more clarification either..

I just had my girl, who was a breeding cat and only had one litter, spayed, because she cycled continuously and lost so much weight (i%26#039;m used to the calling and spraying, so those weren%26#039;t reasons), her mom developed mammary tumors while unspayed and my friend%26#039;s queen died on the operatingtable from a pyometra the week before…..

This was only and solely in my girls best interest, because if I hadn%26#039;t deemed it necessary, I would have loved to breed another litter from her again as her kittens are so great.

But she%26#039;s my pet, my child, first and foremost, and her best interest is my priority.

The exact reason why I wouldn%26#039;t even consider declawing her - the thought alone makes my stomach turn.

It is just wrong to compare spay/neuter to declawing, they%26#039;re like night and day.|||Cats that are declawed it does not affect them in any way and they don%26#039;t have problems with their personality and their behavior,they can jump up and down from furniture,they canplay with thier toys, and they can use their litter box with no problems,they have no balance problems. It does not affect them mentally at all.They are not humans like we are where we can remeber what happens to us.Cats just go on with their lives and it does not bother them at all. They forget and they go on living. I have a cat that is declawed and it has not affected her in any way and she did not have any of the problems that people say that happens to cats that have been declawed. She is a very happy cat and I give her a lot of love. When ever I get a cat she is spayed right away.

Declawing and spaying and Neutering are not the same but it is Surgery.|||To add to your points, it also boils down to responsible pet ownership.

The facts are that 6-8 million cats and dogs enter shelters every year, and half of them leave in cremation trucks according to the humane society of the united states.

Why? There are 4 reasons why animals are euthanized in shelters..

1. age

2. health

3. temperment

4. overpopulation

The last 2 are the ones that concern me most, because they are preventable by responsible pet owners who both spend the time to socialize their pets, and spay/neuter to help prevent pet over population., and in turn if the problem of over populated shelters didn%26#039;t exist, shelters wouldn%26#039;t have to euthanize based on lack of funding for health care (# 2) and could provide comfortable lives for senior cats and dogs (#1)

Euthaniasia can be no more if only everyone could become responsible pet owners, it begins with spay/neutering.

On a side note….

Isn%26#039;t it interesting that these vets who advocate declawing don%26#039;t run low cost clinics? You would think if they felt they were providing such a service to the pet and owner, they would be willing to cut cost in sake of the greater good, as many do with spay/neutering.

But we all know it isn%26#039;t about the animal at all.

don%26#039;t spite the toes to save the space.|||Excellent post, KM. I agree with you fully. If you don%26#039;t want your furniture to be ruined or scratched, then don%26#039;t get a pet with claws!

I live in the UK and it is illegal here to have a cat declawed. It is classified as an inhumane practice and is a form of abuse. As stated, there are enough products on the market which help prevent a cat from scratching.|||you make very valid points.. i%26#039;ve never actually heard anyone compare the two at all though.

The only time i%26#039;ve ever heard them %26#039;together%26#039; is when the cat is going in to get spayed or neutered, they ask you if you want them declawed at the same time basically for %26#039;killing two birds with one stone%26#039; i guess you could say since you cat is going to be under the needle anyway.

i don%26#039;t believe in declawing at all.. but my kittens are spayed, no surprises this way.. i%26#039;d probably keep all the kittens and that%26#039;s no good|||Great question.

Did you realize declawing is actually considered mutilation in the UK ?

I currently have 13 resident cats and have had to refer a couple to my friends at the rescue center as I do have a limit. All my cats are neutered or speyed (except one who is the next in line )

If they weren%26#039;t we would soon be overrun. Indiscrimate breeding leads to overpopulation, poor health and unecessary deaths.|||Thank God someone with sense.

I%26#039;ve never seen a declaw extend a cat%26#039;s life, I have seen it shorten it.

I am doing a project about prostate cancer .. and I don%26#039;t understand this statement:

Twenty-six states have enacted laws that mandate thirdparty coverage for prostate cancer screening.|||First, understand that insurance is a regulated industry.

Second, understand that the states regulate insurance companies, meaning that the rules differ in every state.

Third, understand that insurance companies couldn%26#039;t care less about your health, my health or anybody else%26#039;s health. They are in business to make money and one of the ways they make money is by getting out of paying any claim they can. I%26#039;m not making a value judgment here; this is just the reality of a company in that business.

With that background, what the statement means is that 26 states have enacted laws that say, %26quot;If you are going to write health insurance in our state, your policies must pay for prostate cancer screening.%26quot;

Does this make sense?

July is PSA awareness month. Men over 40 need to have a simple blood test. PSA levels that are high or that change drastically can be a warning indicator of prostate cancer.

Prostate cancer is easily treatable IF caught early!!!|||How depressing. Over 40, single, unattractive, depressed, and you want me to LIVE? Alas, I get a physical every year. Thanks for the reminder. I%26#039;ll skip it now.|||u gotta do it once a yr bra

July is PSA awareness month. Men over 40 need to have a simple blood test. PSA levels that are high or that change drastically can be a warning indicator of prostate cancer.

Prostate cancer is easily treatable IF caught early!!!|||yes we have|||didn%26#039;t know that thanks for the tip|||This info is incredibly important. Absolutely have a PSA test done if you are over 40, and repeat the test every year from then on. If it rises significantly, like a half point or more, repeat the test and if the increase persists, discuss with your physician about having a biopsy. If you catch prostate cancer early, it if very treatable. If you catch it late, it can kill you. Enough said.|||As Charles Bronson says in %26#039;Death Wish 8%26#039; (on %26#039;The Simpsons%26#039;), %26quot;Oy, I wish I was dead!%26quot;

Really, I have decided to stop living as if I%26#039;m afraid of dying. If I feel funny I%26#039;ll do something about it. If I travel and it%26#039;s easier to drink tap water there, I%26#039;ll drink the damn tap water. If a woman is drunk enough or desperate enough to even look my way, I%26#039;ll throw caution to the wind.

Life is short enough as it is, yes, but it ain%26#039;t so great I want to prolong it unnecessarily.|||Very true! My man is a Viet Nam Vet and was exposed to Agent Orange. He didn%26#039;t know it but he had prostate cancer. He thought it was a sign of aging, but most vets that was exposed to Agent Orange are very likely to have prostate cancer. Besides, there%26#039;s a hefty $ that goes along with it. VETS GET CHECKED!!!

Because I heard it has estrogen like activities and can block testosterone. Even if it blocks prostate cancer, if it blocks my testosterone needed for masculinty and stuff I don%26#039;t think its good. Masterbation prevents prostate cancer. Also I heard it surpresses sex harmones.|||There are some medical or health reports that condemn flax oil for men because the omega 3 in flax oil is ALA and ALA according to some medical or health reports may aggravate prostate cancer but will not necessarily cause it. The omega 3 in soy products and walnuts is also ALA.

Instead of flax oil it is much beter to take fish oil because the omega 3 in fish oil is DHA and EPA which is much better for you than ALA.

Perhaps a search for %26quot;flaxseed oil%26quot; (OR %26quot;flax oil%26quot; OR %26quot;flax seed oil%26quot;) + %26quot;prostate cancer%26quot; might be of interest.

i do masturbation from 1 time a day to 3 time a day so does my prostate will be affected badly for da daily use of my cock doing masturbation will affect my prostate ????? plz answer so confused i dont know what to do i am really like doing masturbation but many peoples said that while doing it da dirty air enters cock and may cause diseases like prostate cancer so plz help thx in advance|||I assure you that masturbation is physically harmless. In fact, there has been a recent study that found that men who ejaculate more than five times a week reduce their risk of prostate cancer by as much as one third. So it is in fact, quite good for you. Go ahead and enjoy yourself!|||masturbation is good for you man.|||you should take an English class instead of jerking off so much.

but no….its good for you. It cleans out your prostate.|||Once I wacked it 20 times in one day|||Masturbation can%26#039;t harm you. Not at all.