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 ...
Consistent PSA Screening Results In Better Prognosis
Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Recently, PSA or prostate-specific antigen, screening made headlines when a US Preventive Task Force recommended that men over the age 75 discontinue screening for prostate cancer. While there is currently no definitive data regarding improvement in survival from screening for prostate ...
One-fifth of men under 50 do prostate test
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »One-fifth of men under age 50 report having had a prostate specific antigen test to detect prostate cancer in the previous year, U.S. researchers say. Researchers at Duke University Medicine's Prostate Center said only one in three young black men reported ...
Schneck to host free prostrate exams
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »The Schneck Medical Center Foundation will again sponsor free prostate cancer screening tests on Sept. 11, 16, and Oct. 7. The screenings will be at Schneck’s Cancer Center on the medical center campus. You must have a scheduled appointment to ...
Delay in body growth linked to prostate cancer
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer prevention, prostate cancer risks | No Comments »An Italian research team lead by Dr. Paola Muti of the Italian National Cancer Institute, Rome, concluded that boys who reach their adult body size in their early 20s may be more prone to prostate cancer later in life than ...
Agent Orange associated to aggressive prostate cancer
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A recent research at UC Davis Cancer Center found that Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange have greatly increased risks of prostate cancer and even greater risks of getting the most aggressive form of the disease as compared to those who ...
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 ...
Possible link found between diagnostic radiation and prostate cancer
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Researchers at The University of Nottingham have shown an association between certain past diagnostic radiation procedures and an increased risk of young-onset prostate cancer - a rare form of prostate cancer which affects about 10 per cent of all men ...
Innovative Imaging Technologies Needed for Prostate Cancer Detection and Treatment
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Recently Congress took two key actions that recognized the value of imaging technologies in the fight against prostate cancer. AdvaMed is pleased that the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee included important language in its FY ...
Prostate cancer cells can be detected in the circulating blood by a range of methods
Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »New results from The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in the UK show that counting the number of tumor cells circulating in the bloodstream of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer can accurately predict how well they are responding to treatment. At ...