Exercise May Speed Up Prostate Tumour Growth
Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer | 1 Comment »Researchers at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center (DCCC) and the Duke Prostate Center has shown that exercise may lead to faster prostate tumour growth, and thus hasten the decline of some cancer patients. According to the researchers, exercise may increase ...
Prostate Cancer Patients Must Learn
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer | 1 Comment »According to a government study released this year, the choices for treating prostate cancer are bewildering, especially in the disease's early and they put men in a very difficult situation. There's watchful waiting. There's a menu of different surgical choices, now ...
Vitamin K2 Associated to Lower Prostate Cancer Risk
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in alternative treatments, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Researchers from the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg report that the potential benefits of K2 were more pronounced for advanced prostate cancer, while vitamin K1 intake did not offer any prostate benefits. The anti-tumor effect of K2 vitamins has been ...
3T MRI Plays Significant Role in Detecting Prostate Cancer
Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | 1 Comment »A recent study conducted by researchers from The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH suggests that the use of MRI without endorectal coil can detect prostate cancer and provide undistorted images with diagnostic image quality and accurate tumor localization. According to ...
Scientists Block Early Step in Metastasis of Prostate Cancer Cells
Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | 1 Comment »Recent studies at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have suggested an association between chronic inflammation and cancers of the prostate, colon, stomach and liver. Now researchers report success in blocking an early step in metastasis of prostate cancer cells by ...
Prostate Cancer DNA Vaccine Results In Higher T-Cell Response When Delivered Via Inovio Biomedical’s Electroporation Delivery System
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Inovio Biomedical Corporation (AMEX:INO) will present interim data from a clinical study of an experimental DNA-based prostate cancer vaccine at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in San Diego, USA, April 12 - 16, 2008. The data indicates that the ...
Interrupting Communication Between the Cancer Cells and Other Cells May Lower Prostate Cancer Cells Invasion
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer | 1 Comment »Recent studies have suggested an association between chronic inflammation and cancers of the prostate, colon, stomach and liver. Now scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine report success in blocking an early step in metastasis of prostate cancer cells ...
Less Prostate Cancer Drug Therapy Linked to More Surgical Castration
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »It is a fact that in 2004, Medicare reduced its reimbursement rates to doctors for drugs that treat prostate cancer by blocking the activity of male hormones. A new study at Cleveland Clinic found that coincidentally or not, the use ...
New Vaccine Prevents Prostate Cancer in Mice
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | 1 Comment »University of Southern California (USC) researchers have come up with a test vaccine that successfully prevents prostate cancer development in 90 percent of mice genetically engineered to contract the disease. This preventive vaccine is the new approach that specifically target the ...
Most Cancer Survivors Say Chemo Fears Unfounded
Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »Although most cancer survivors polled in a recent survey said they had been fearful of undergoing chemotherapy, most also said the treatments were much less trying than they had expected. In fact, 94 percent said they would advise others to undergo ...