Medscape Medical News (Oncology)
Neil Osterwell
Sept. 16, 2013
A comprehensive lifestyle intervention might help prostate cancer
patients live to be longer in the tooth and in the telomere, suggest
results of a very small pilot study reported online in The Lancet Oncology.
Among 35 men with biopsy-proven, low-risk prostate cancer who opted
for active surveillance, a comprehensive lifestyle intervention
including diet, activity, stress management, and support was
associated with lengthening of telomeres over 5 years compared with a
loss of telomere length among controls, report Dean Ornish MD,
director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute, in Sausalito,
California, and colleagues.
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