Prostate care with no incision or scars
Sunday, August 31st, 2008 Posted in hifu | No Comments »Niagara doctors are using a relatively new treatment in Canada to defeat an age-old problem -the most common form of cancer found in North American men. Since June 2007, NiagaraHIFU has provided prostate cancer patients with a minimally- invasive procedure that ...
Cancer screening do save lives — even those of men over age 75
Sunday, August 31st, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Numerous media reports followed a federal task force's announcement this month that there is insufficient medical evidence to assess the risks and benefits of prostate cancer screening in men younger than 75 and that doctors should stop testing men over ...
Annual test for prostate cancer
Saturday, August 30th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Early suspicions of prostate cancer presence, before symptoms are noticed, can arise from an abnormal blood test. This PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen), is not a perfect test and can occasionally give a false result either positive or negative, but a ...
Study shows hormone therapy can speed prostate cancer
Friday, August 29th, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy | 1 Comment »University of Rochester researchers suggest that hormone therapy, the most common treatment for advanced prostate cancer, can boomerang to make the cancer more deadly. This conclusion is based on research on mice. It's well known that male sex hormones promote the ...
Risky Health Behaviors Linked To Lower Prostate Cancer Screening
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »According to a study conducted at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, health risk behaviors such as smoking and obesity are associated with lower awareness of the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA), which could lead to a lower likelihood of ...
Study shows PDE5 inhibitor more effective when used on demand in erectile dysfunction
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »European Urology, the official journal of the European Association of Urology will be featuring the article 'Effect of nightly versus on-demand vardenafil on recovery of erectile function in men following bilateral nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy' by F. Montorsi et al.in the ...
Long-term use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs raise the risk of prostate cancer among obese men
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »According to findings of a new study published in in the American Journal of Epidemiology, use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, especially long-term use, appears to raise the risk of prostate cancer among obese men. Among obese men, current use of a ...
Why hormone therapy for prostate cancer fails
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »Some of the drugs given to many men during their fight against prostate cancer can actually spur some cancer cells to grow, researchers have found. The findings were published online this week in a pair of papers in the Proceedings ...
New prostate cancer radiation treatment increases accuracy
Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »Officials of Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa announced that Calypso, a new advanced prostate cancer treatment that helps doctors deliver focused doses of radiation with greater accuracy, is now available at the Mercy Cancer Center in Mason City, It has been approved ...
Prostate cancer screening requires common sense
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »The blood test that screens for prostate cancer often allows doctors to find the cancer at such an early stage that the disease may not need to be treated. Unfortunately, they are often unable to determine which cancers would remain slow-growing and ...