Obese Prostate Cancer Patients May Benefit More From Brachytherapy
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »Brachytherapy, also called seed implants, may be a more beneficial treatment than surgery or external beam radiation therapy for overweight or obese prostate cancer patients, according to a study published in the August issue of the International Journal of Radiation ...
Precisely targeted radiation therapy can control limited prostate cancer spread
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »In the August 15, 2008, issue of Clinical Cancer Research, (published online August 12) researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center report that precisely targeted radiation therapy can eradicate all evidence of disease in selected patients with cancer that ...
Salvage Options For Biochemical Recurrence After Primary Therapy For Prostate Cancer
Monday, August 11th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »Despite excellent success rates with radical prostatectomy and radiotherapy for the treatment of prostate cancer, a significant number of patients will experience a rise in their serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) level. A variety of salvage options in this scenario have ...
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 ...
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 ...
Study Indicates Certain Men Benefit from Salvage Radiotherapy After Radical Prostatectomy
Saturday, July 12th, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »In the June 18, 2008 edition of JAMA, Dr. Bruce Trock and associates reported on prostate cancer (CaP) specific survival following salvage radiotherapy (XRT) vs. observation in men with biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy (RP). They found a benefit to ...
Freezing sperm and eggs gives young prostate cancer patients a hope
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate chemotherapy, prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »When a man hears the diagnosis prostate cancer, surgery needed, he is crushed that the treatment would destroy his ability to have more children. Statistics show a growing number of young cancer patients freezing sperm and eggs in case surgery, chemotherapy ...
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 ...
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 ...
Radiation for Prostate Cancer Raises Risk of Other Cancers
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »According to a study at University of Montreal's Department of Urology, men undergoing external beam radiation for localized prostate cancer may have a slightly increased risk of developing other cancers. The researchers said during a Monday teleconference at the American Urological ...