A recent study of 82,483 men found that those with the highest intake of legumes had an 11% reduced risk of prostate cancer and a 26% reduced risk of nonlocalized or high-grade cancer.

RISING TEMPERATURES could raise the prevalence of kidney stones, especially in the so-called "kidney stone belt" of the Deep South, University of Texas researchers predict.

A European study revealed no link between dietary fat intake and the risk of prostate cancer, according to a report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2008;87:1405-1413).

SAN FRANCISCO—High exposure to aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is asso-ciated with decreased prostate cancer-specific mortality, according to study findings presented here at the 2008 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

SAN FRANCISCO—Men recently diagnosed with prostate cancer are at elevated risk of cardiovascular death and suicide, according to separate analyses of a cohort of Swedish men.

MILAN—Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) are highly prevalent among men and women aged 40 years and older, according to an online survey of 27,500 individuals in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Black men may be getting the message that they are at increased risk of prostate cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention (2008;17:636-644).

RESEARCHERS WHO studied the prevalence of prostate cancer among male organ donors found that approximately one in eight of them had the malignancy.

GREEN TEA may be associated with a decreased risk of advanced prostate cancer, according to researchers in Tokyo.

LOWER URINARY TRACT symptoms (LUTS) and urinary incontinence (UI) are common in the Canadian population, researchers report.