New treatment for advanced prostate cancer developed
Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate related | No Comments »During a recent study Professor Wayne Tilley and Dr Lisa Butler of the University's Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories have developed a combination of existing prostate cancer drugs with new drugs at lower doses can be an effective treatment ...
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer may affect cognition skills
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »A recent review of the literature has found that hormone deprivation therapy, a commonly used treatment for prostate cancer, may have subtle adverse effects on cognition in patients--such as in the ability to recall and concentrate. Published in the September 1, ...
NIDDK publishes strategic plan for research into benign prostate
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in prostate related | No Comments »The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has published for the first time, a strategic plan for research into benign prostate disease, based on the latest scientific knowledge. ...
Study Confirms That Levitra® On Demand Is Effective In Patients With ED After Nerve-sparing Prostatectomy
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A study published in the European Urology journal demonstrated that Levitra® (vardenafil, HCI) is highly efficacious in men with erectile dysfunction (ED) even shortly after radical nerve-sparing prostatectomy. This landmark study conducted by Bayer Schering Pharma was a double-blind, randomized, ...
Soon Prostate Cancer Surgery Don’t Lead to Incontinence
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »According to statistics, about 20% of men who underwent prostate surgery developed urinary incontinence postoperatively, with some of them continuing to have problems more than a year later. Because the proximal sphincter is sometimes removed during prostatectomy, urinary continence depends on the ...
Visualisation Software To Aid Prostate Cancer Detection
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | 1 Comment »Visualisation specialists See3D, a spin off company of the University of Aberystwyth, is developing unique, sophisticated computer-generated models that will help doctors to improve the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. See3D's visualisation project, commissioned by medical imaging software company Oncomorph ...
Fertility Issues In Patients With Prostate Cancer
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy, prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »PSA screening helps doctors to detect prostate cancer (CaP) in men at younger ages. In the online issue of the BJU International, a research team from Norway address the issues of fertility as related to prostate cancer therapies.In Norway, the ...
New prostate cancer pill could save thousands of lives
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »A NEW pill could potentially save the lives of thousands of prostate cancer sufferers, eliminating the need for damaging therapies. Trials of the new drug have shown that it can shrink tumours in up to 80 per cent of cases, and ...
Bone Drug Reduces Fractures In Men Having Hormone Therapy For Prostate Cancer
Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy, prostate cancer | No Comments »Drugmaker Amgen Inc announced yesterday, Monday, that a large trial of its bone drug denosumab increased bone density and cut fractures in men with non-metastatic prostate cancer who were having hormone blocking therapy. A side effect of androgen deprivation therapy ...
Comorbidity reduces benefits of androgen suppression in prostate cancer
Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy, radiation therapy | No Comments »The addition of androgen suppression therapy to radiation therapy for treatment of prostate cancer fails to improve survival among men with serious co-existing illness, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association for January 23. Recent evidence ...