Category: Hair Diseases

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An alopecia sufferer has covered her head in confectionery in an effort to become a human Easter egg.

15-year-old Joelle Amery cooled her head with frozen peas before being covered with chocolate and hundreds and thousands. ‘I thought it was a fun thing to do for Easter’, she said.

While it might seem a slightly bizarre thing to do, the stunt is actually an effort to raise awareness of alopecia universalis, which affects 100,000 people in the UK.

Read the rest and see the photos — Alopecia sufferer becomes chocolate egghead to highlight hair loss disease

We have treated this condition with Scalp MicroPigmentation. This is an easy cosmetic solution for men, as a man with alopecia universalis has no hair and looks like a person who shaved their head. This effect doesn’t work so much for women, as women will not usually go with the shaved head look.

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Scientists have found that regularly eating the brightly-coloured vegetables appears to reduce the risk of prostate cancer by almost a fifth. Men who included carrots as part of their regular diet, eating them at least three times a week, were 18 per cent less likely to develop a prostate tumour, according to findings published in the latest European Journal of Nutrition.

The study, by scientists at Zhejiang University in China, pulled together the results of ten smaller studies from different parts of the world looking at the anti-cancer effects of carrots. This type of research, called a meta-analysis, is performed when findings from lots of studies with small numbers of patients produce conflicting findings. Some research has suggested carrots do protect the prostate against disease, others have found little or no benefit.

Read the rest — They help you see in the dark – now carrots can reduce the risk of prostate cancer

Always remember to eat your vegetables.

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Men with early-stage prostate cancer who had their prostates surgically removed were significantly more likely to be alive nearly two decades later than men who went without surgery and were monitored through so-called “watchful waiting,” the latest findings from a long-running Swedish study show.

The 700-patient study, which found similar results at earlier stages, is likely to heighten debate about the value of surgery versus observation or watchful waiting, which generally involves no immediate treatment. In recent years, doctors increasingly have embraced watchful waiting, in part because other large studies have shown that surgery provides no benefit yet has potentially undesirable side effects.

Read the rest — Study: Prostate Surgery Helps Some Men Live Longer

The article points out that “benefits of surgery were most pronounced in men who were under 65 when diagnosed,” though there was no significant death reduction rates in men 65 years or older.

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DNA testing can predict which men face the highest risk of deadly prostate cancer, scientists say. The team at the Institute of Cancer Research, in London, say men could soon be offered genetic screening in a similar way to breast cancer in women. They have shown 14 separate mutations can greatly increase the odds of aggressive prostate cancers, which could form the basis of a test. Prostate Cancer UK said such testing could “revolutionise” care for men.

Prostate cancer is the commonest cancer in men in many countries, including the UK – where more than 40,000 people are diagnosed each year. But not every patient has, or needs, invasive therapy that results in severe side-effects. Identifying which men will need treatment – those who are likely to develop the most aggressive and deadly form of the cancer – is a huge challenge.

Read the rest — DNA prostate test ‘will predict deadliest cancer risk’