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Years after prostate surgery: Is it okay to eat steak once a month?
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I will continue to eat the steak. Not sure what your doctor told you but there should be no dietary restrictions after surgical recovery. With RP your prostate is gone, and it had no digestive function. If there is a BCR it is from cells that were present in your body (or their descents) at time of RP. Nothing in your diet is going to change that. It might give a 20-year-old slightly better odds of not getting prostate cancer, or other cancers. However, if there are negative genetic factors that will probably swamp all the healthy living. Most prostate cancer survivors are 65+. At this point a healthy diet is probably not even going to prevent other cancers. It might be time to live a little before you die. But more power to you if your choice is a tofu diet for the rest of your life.
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You may think there should be no dietary restrictions, but the fact is recurrence can be aided by eating foods that are not helpful To prevent reoccurrence. You have lots of cells in your body, and some of them are susceptible to those foods and can be prompted to grow if you do not pay attention to what you eat.
The fact of a prostatectomy is really irrelevant. Before you were even diagnosed Dormant cells were sent throughout your body by the cancer and can be activated by stress. Besides that there are other cells that can be encouraged to grow by certain foods. Whole milk, Deli meat, Red meat, Sugary beverages, and fruit juice and a lot of other items can encourage your cancer cells to replicate.
There are a lot of videos on YouTube about Diet and prostate cancer. UCSF says it in this link,
https://www.ucsfhealth.org/health-articles/nutrition-and-prostate-cancer
It’s not like you can never eat these foods, but eating them Infrequently can be beneficial for your cancer.
I’ve had four reoccurrences because I have the genetic problem of BRCA2. I’ve had prostate cancer for 16 years and I’ve had surgery and radiation and many drugs. For the last 10 years, I’ve greatly limited the amount of red meat and other items that are not good for my cancer. I think that’s one of the reasons I’m still around after all this time.
You can eat, whatever you like whenever you like, but your cancer may become more aggressive as a result.