SafetyIssues Personal and Public Safety News Articles: Men


Sex is Safe for Most Heart Patients: AHA
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Courtesy of WSJ on 01/20/12 11:36:00
 
Heart patients may be nervous or anxious about having sex, but most of them can
do so safely — and they shouldn’t be afraid to bring up the topic with their
doctor. So says the American Heart Association in its first scientific statement
on sexual activity and cardiovascular disease, published online by Circulation.
“It’s reasonably safe for most people with stable disease to engage in
sexual activity,” says Glenn Levine, a professor of medicine at Baylor College
of Medicine and lead author of the statement. The risk of suffering a heart
event during sex is “minuscule” because sex usually simply doesn’t last
very long, according to the statement. (Certainly it typically doesn’t last as
long as a marathon, where the risk of cardiac arrest was recently pegged as very
small.) Sex is the cause of less than 1% of all acute heart attacks, the review
said. And autopsy studies suggest that only between 0.6% and 1.7% of sudden
deaths are related to sexual activity.

Radiation Therapy Helps Lower Prostate Cancer Deaths
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Staff writer for safetyissues.com on 12/16/08 10:23:00
 
American men with locally advanced prostate cancer can take heart: a Swedish
study has found that a treatment regime that combines hormones with radiation
therapy doubles the survival rate of patients with this type of cancer.

Vitamin E, Selenium: No Aid vs. Prostate Cancer
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Staff writer for safetyissues.com on 11/02/08 12:11:00
 
Vitamin E and selenium supplements had offered hope of a cheaper treatment
method against prostate cancer, but it turns out they do not prevent or lower
the risk of the dreaded disease, according to the National Cancer Institute
(NCI).

Does Prostate Cancer Surgery Really Help?
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Staff writer for safetyissues.com on 08/14/08 03:51:00
 
Men who undergo radical prostatectomy, or surgical removal of the prostate after
being diagnosed with prostate cancer, have less risk of dying compared to those
who take the watchful waiting approach, according to a continuing study of men
in the Scandinavian Prostate Cancer Group.