Low Cholesterol May Help Prevent Cancer

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This is perhaps the worst written and most poorly edited article I've ever read on the Internet. Your writer was unable to relay in an understandable way what the conclusions of the study cited reveal.
Apparently, there were earlier studies of cancer and cholesterol that gave misleading results, and the new study provides better answers.
Your writer confused me and other readers by toggling back and forth between effects of low and high density cholestorol, and the levels of each which either do or do not associate with a higher or lower incidence of cancer.
Take this awful article down and rewrite it, but make sure your writer actually understands what the findings of the cited study reveal. The only thing this article reveals is that your web site is just spewing nonsense and that you have weak minded people working on your web site.
Come on people, shape up.

Bruce Brownlee of GA 11:44AM November 04, 2009

Colesterol may also help your intestines bleed.

dick of NV 11:11AM November 04, 2009

"In addition, data on the more than 5,500 men enrolled in the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial showed that those with cholesterol levels lower than 200 had a 59 percent lower risk of developing the most dangerous form of that cancer, said a second report in the same issue of the journal.
Low cholesterol levels were more likely to be seen in men whose prostate cancers had high Gleason scores, a measure of the disruption of the prostate gland's normal structure caused by the malignancy, the study found. Prostate cancers with the highest Gleason scores are regarded as the most difficult to treat.
Cholesterol levels had no significant effect on the overall incidence of prostate cancer in the study, said study leader Elizabeth Platz, co-director of the cancer prevention and control program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.
But the association between low cholesterol levels and a reduced incidence of aggressive disease "is a notable reduction which is not often seen for prostate cancer," she said."
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Jon of PA 11:01AM November 04, 2009

Once again these medical claim are printer without necessary information of who did the study and specially WHO PAID for the study. "News organization" owe it to the public to at least who paid for any study to make it legitimate.

Mark Morshedi of TX 9:08AM November 04, 2009

This paragraph found in the story:"Cholesterol levels had no significant effect on the overall incidence of prostate cancer in the study, said study leader Elizabeth Platz, co-director of the cancer prevention and control program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center." surely doesn't square with the headline.... My interpretation is that if you get really aggressive prostate cancer, perhaps your cholestrol level may be higher..

doubting thomas of TX 9:06AM November 04, 2009