Men who refuse surgery for prostate cancer and instead opt for "watchful waiting" - monitoring cancer progression without undergoing treatment - have a significantly worse long-term survival rate than those patients that choose radiotherapy, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in...
Screenings for urinary symptoms in men with androgenetic alopecia (AGA) could help identify those who could benefit from treatment to prevent benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), according to researchers in Spain. This new study, which suggests an...
Marshall Edwards, Inc., (NASDAQ: MSHL). An abstract titled "A phase II study of oral phenoxodiol in castrate and non-castrate prostate cancer patients with associated cytokine changes" by Dr Kevin Kelly at the Yale School of Medicine Department of Medical Oncology, is now available at...
Today is an exciting day for men with advanced prostate cancer and the millions of families and loved ones who are profoundly affected. Today a new prostate cancer treatment option, Provenge, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Men's Health Network (MHN) is excited to see...
Researchers at Queen's University have developed a new way of performing lab tests that could improve the way doctors manage prostate cancer treatment. It will allow them to identify with unprecedented accuracy losses of a gene called PTEN that is associated with an aggressive group of prostate...
Cold, dry weather has been linked to an increased incidence of prostate cancer. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access International Journal of Health Geographics suggest that meteorological effects on persistent organic pollutants, such as some pesticides and industrial...
Cold, dry weather has been linked to an increased incidence of prostate cancer. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access International Journal of Health Geographics suggest that meteorological effects on persistent organic pollutants, such as some pesticides and industrial...
Johns Hopkins epidemiologists say that prostate cancer patients who gain five or more pounds near the time of their prostate surgery are twice as likely to have a recurrence of their cancer compared with patients whose weight is stable. "We surveyed men whose cancer was confined to the prostate...
During a routine physical in September 2006, retired airline pilot Jeff Albulet's doctor thought he 'felt something' when he did a digital rectal exam, although Jeff's prostate specific antigen (PSA) was only 2. Six months later, Jeff's PSA rose to 3.5, and a biopsy showed pre-cancerous cells...
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics has received CE-marking in Europe for the ADVIA Centaur® free PSA test, completing a full menu of tests that aid in prostate cancer detection and management. The assays include prostate-specific antigen (PSA), complexed PSA (cPSA) and free PSA (fPSA), all available...
Radiotherapy Centers of Georgia (RCOG), a division of RC Cancer Centers announced that they have reached a new milestone and recently treated their 12,500th patient for prostate cancer with their ProstRcision® treatment therapy. The milestone means their treatment database is one of the most...
UroToday.com - The most common curative treatments for localized prostate cancer (PC), radical prostatectomy (RP) and radiation therapy (RT), have significant effects on quality of life. Most studies measured quality of life using psychometric instruments. Another approach uses the concept of...
UroToday.com - Adult bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) have been shown to inhibit tumor growth in various studies. Although MSC express MHC class I molecules, they lack expression of co-stimulatory molecules and suppress T-cell response, which gives them the utility to overcome a...
UroToday.com - Adult bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) have been shown to inhibit tumor growth in various studies. Although MSC express MHC class I molecules, they lack expression of co-stimulatory molecules and suppress T-cell response, which gives them the utility to overcome a...
UroToday.com - The treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) secondary to bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) makes up a significant amount of the workload of most urologists. The traditional approach of trans urethral resection of the prostate (TURP) has been the mainstay of surgery for...
Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have developed a new method to better study the cells that line and protect the prostate in relation to the development of cancer. Using the model, they found that normal cells and cancer cells depend on different factors to survive, which could...
Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have developed a new method to better study the cells that line and protect the prostate in relation to the development of cancer. Using the model, they found that normal cells and cancer cells depend on different factors to survive, which could...
Men who undergo prostate-cancer screening should discuss with a doctor the uncertainties, risks and benefits of the test before it is performed, says Edward Partridge, M.D., president-elect of the American Cancer Society (ACS) National Board of Directors and director of the University of Alabama...
Members of America's Prostate Cancer Organizations are concerned that the issuance this morning of yet another set of new guidelines on screening for prostate cancer is only adding to the confusion most men already feel about whether they should or shouldn't be tested for the most common form of...