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Can vegan diet and HIIT workouts move the needle?
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What percent of the core was Gleason 4? If that percentage is low than AS is the way I would go. If it was 40% type 4 vs. 40% of the core being cancer than I would be investigating focal therapy.
You have already done the best for your health by losing 20 pounds. There is no proof that a vegan diet or HIIT will stop progression of prostate cancer. However, HIIT is great for your heart health and that still kills 10x as many men as prostate cancer so that is a reason to keep that going. Now if in the years from 15 to 65 you had followed a vegan diet there is evidence of lower incidents of cancer. Not so much on quick fixes. I believe that I am stuck with the effect of those 99c Big Macs (it has been a while) I ate years ago. However, you have to do you. If you believe that going on a Kale and Brussel Sprouts diet helps, go for it. There are many on this board who believe that will give them control of their cancer. Prostate cancer has a 10-year survival rate exceeding 98% while many cancers have a 5-year mortality rate of about 80%. So do not get spooked by the word cancer.
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@jim18 Thanks for your response! I have no other info from the biopsy report than what I wrote. 40% of the core was cancerous and I am pretty sure that means in the 40% a higher number of cells were Gleason 3 and less were Gleason 4. I hope that makes sense and I am reading it correctly. That would put it less than 20% Gleason 4. So active surveillance in your opinion is the way to go? I would like that for sure.
On the diet side, I was afraid that might be the case. The horse has left the barn. But i'll stick it out and see what the next PSA brings. Yes, I was also guilty of eating a less than stellar diet for many years and it might be a little too late to change that now` but i'm trying!