Effective Chemotherapeutic Agents Used in Prostate Cancer Treatment
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | 3 Comments »Prostate cancer is the most common non-cutaneous cancer in the United States. Although most are diagnosed at earlier stages of disease, a significant number of patients will eventually progress to metastatic androgen-independent prostate cancer (AIPC) and will receive chemotherapy. A recent ...
Cryotherapy May Be Effective Against Prostate Cancer
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in prostate cryotherapy | 1 Comment »Cryotherapy is a tissue-freezing procedure. That means thin needles are placed into the prostate through which super-cooled argon gas is circulated -- reducing the temperature to up to -150 degrees centigrade. The technique freezes the prostate, killing the cancer it contains. Cryotherapy ...
Chemo Break a Hope for Men With Prostate Cancer
Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in alternative treatments | 3 Comments »Investigators from Northwestern University found that genistein, a compound found in soybeans, almost completely prevented the spread of human prostate cancer in mice. The study was published in the March 15 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association ...
New blood biomarker may predict when prostate cancer spreads beyond tumor
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »US researchers have developed a new plasma marker that could help predict whether a patient's prostate cancer would spread beyond the solid tumor site into their lymph nodes. This new finding could lead to more accurate prediction of cancer metastasis ...