Biomarkers may help predict prostate cancer recurrence
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A scientific team from University of Texas Southwestern have identified seven biomarkers that may help predict prostate cancer recurrence in patients after surgery. Biomarkers are proteins circulating in a patient's blood that are specific to a disease. Currently used risk assessment methods can ...
Radiation treatment for cancer after radical prostatectomy linked with increased survival
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »Preliminary findings indicate that for men who underwent radical prostatectomy, radiation treatment after prostate cancer recurrence was associated with an increase in prostate cancer-related survival, according to a study in the June 18 issue of JAMA. more about radiotherapy for cancer ...
Healthy lifestyle improves the prostate cancer condition
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in alternative treatments, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »In a small study, researchers of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, tracked 30 men with low-risk prostate cancer who decided against conventional medical treatment such as radiation, surgery or hormone therapy. In their final conclusion, researchers said on ...
Fathers Get 16% More Prostate Cancer
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »When a man fathers his first child, his lifetime risk of prostate cancer goes up 16%. Nobody has any idea why this might be so, but the finding, based on 51.6 million man-years of data, is as certain as any statistical ...
Testosterone replacement in older men doesn’t elevate prostate cancer risk
Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »According to lead author Aksam Yassin, MD, PhD, of the Clinic for Urology and Andrology of the Segeberger Clinics in Norderstedt, Germany, older men opting for testosterone replacement therapy, owing to their low testosterone levels, don't face an elevated risk ...
Experts debate the use of prostate cancer drug
Sunday, June 15th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »A new research shows that Finasteride (Proscar) reduces the risk of prostate cancer in all men, regardless of their risk level for the disease. The drug blocks the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone, a hormone active mostly in the prostate ...
Surgeons get a new tool
Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »At a news conference yesterday, surgeons at Columbia Regional Hospital said the da Vinci Surgical System would result in smaller incisions, shorter hospital stays, less pain, a faster recovery, less blood loss and a quicker return to normal functions or ...
New device to treat prostate cancer
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in radiation therapy | 1 Comment »Dr. Joel Tepper, a radiation oncologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, has dsignet a new device as one of several treatment options for prostate cancer. He believes the Calypso System is the answer ...
New Prostate Cancer Test on Anvil
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer prevention | 1 Comment »Gentag Inc. and MacroArray Technologies LLC are developing a low-cost, wireless test that detects cancer early on. Designed like a pregnancy test, a male gives a urine sample on a test strip that contains an imbedded wireless sensor tag, and the ...
Researchers Discover Traits of Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate cancer diagnosis | 1 Comment »A research team at the Michigan Center for Translational Pathology at the University of Michigan Health System have identified traits of an aggressive type of prostate cancer that occurs in about 10 percent of men who have the disease. They ...