Study: Meat industry antibiotic prevents prostate cancer growth

When I was dazed and confused in the early days of my prostate cancer diagnosis in 2008, I kept stumbling on a theory that as men age, the presence of higher testosterone levels acts as a fuel for prostate cancer growth. It begs the question, why don't men earlier in life get prostate cancer when they are brimming with testosterone?

I'm still unclear on the answer to that question.  But a recent study shows that an antibiotic used in the meal and daily industry can turn off the testosterone receptors and simultaneously increase production of oxygen to damage the DNA in cancer cells.

This lethal combination is shown to prevent the growth of prostate cancer cells. The article is in Science Day, called Compound That Prevents the Growth of Prostate Cancer Cells Identified (Dec. 27, 2010).