Risk Factors

Hormonal Milk Poses Prostate Cancer and Other Cancers Risks

Published in Cancer Weekly, March 30th, 1998

The following was released by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., University of Illinois, Chicago, School of Public Health:

As reported in a January 23, 1998 article in Science, men with high blood levels of the naturally occurring hormone insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) are over four times more likely to develop [advanced] prostate cancer than are men with lower levels. The report emphasized that high IGF-1 blood levels are the strongest known risk factor for prostate cancer, only exceeding that of a family history, and that reducing IGF-1 levels is likely to prevent this cancer. It was further noted that IGF-1 markedly stimulates the division and proliferation of normal and...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1998-03-30)

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