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Common painkillers like aspirin and ibuprofen appear to lower a mans PSA level, the blood biomarker widely used by physicians to help gauge whether a man is at risk of prostate cancer.

Blood tests to check levels of the so-called sunshine vitamin are on the rise as doctors and patients react to headline-grabbing research that suggests having too little may not only hurt your bonesit might increase your risk of certain cancers or heart disease.

Health Discovery Corporation has announced that their new gene-based molecular diagnostic test for prostate cancer has now successfully completed its Phase III double-blind clinical trial and is now ready for commercialization. It will be presented at the upcoming Biomarker Discovery Europe 2008 conference in Dublin, Ireland on October 2-3.

Prostate cancer diagnosis tends to be delayed and surgical treatment more difficult in obese men than in lean men, according to two recently published studies.