Effective Chemotherapeutic Agents Used in Prostate Cancer Treatment
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | 3 Comments »Prostate cancer is the most common non-cutaneous cancer in the United States. Although most are diagnosed at earlier stages of disease, a significant number of patients will eventually progress to metastatic androgen-independent prostate cancer (AIPC) and will receive chemotherapy. A recent ...
Cryotherapy May Be Effective Against Prostate Cancer
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in prostate cryotherapy | 1 Comment »Cryotherapy is a tissue-freezing procedure. That means thin needles are placed into the prostate through which super-cooled argon gas is circulated -- reducing the temperature to up to -150 degrees centigrade. The technique freezes the prostate, killing the cancer it contains. Cryotherapy ...
New Study Finds Soy Stops Prostate Cancer Spread
Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | 2 Comments »A new animal study from Northwestern University has added to a body of research suggesting that soy could prove helpful in the fight against prostate cancer spreading to other parts of the body. The same research team established the mechanism by ...
Chemo Break a Hope for Men With Prostate Cancer
Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in alternative treatments | 3 Comments »Investigators from Northwestern University found that genistein, a compound found in soybeans, almost completely prevented the spread of human prostate cancer in mice. The study was published in the March 15 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association ...
Men Should Be Provided With Better Information About Prostate Cancer
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer prevention | 1 Comment »According to a recent report of the Prostate Cancer Charter for Action, prostate cancer sufferers across England report worse care, lower awareness and poorer outcomes than other patients. The report said men should be provided with better information about the ...
PSA Test Losing Diagnostic Value
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »A new study asserts that changes in medical practice have undermined the value of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test as a diagnostic tool for prostate cancer. For men with a normal digital rectal examination, it has lost the predictive accuracy it ...
Serum Concentrations of Testosterone not Linked to Prostate Cancer Risk
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A research at the University of Oxford, UK, performed a collaborative analysis of the existing worldwide epidemiologic data to examine if hormones in serum influence the risk of prostate cancer. Their goal was to examine these associations in a uniform manner ...
Prostate Cancer Patients May Have a Break in Chemotherapy
Saturday, March 1st, 2008 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | 1 Comment »A study at the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute concluded that some men with advanced prostate cancer can safely take a break from chemotherapy. this new finding is a big hope for prostate cancer patients because the drug can cause ...