HIFU treatment available outside of United States
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in hifu | No Comments »USHIFU, LLC, the exclusive distributor of the minimally invasive Sonablate(R) 500 for prostate cancer treatment in North and South America featured a segment on high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for treating prostate cancer outside of the United States using the ...
Monitoring Blood Flow Helps Improve Prostate Biopsies
Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Using a special ultrasound technique to spot areas of blood flow in the prostate gland may substantially reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies, according to a new study by urologists and radiologists at the Jefferson Prostate Diagnostic Center and the ...
Blocking Signaling Protein Prevents Prostate Cancer Spread
Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia have shown that by blocking a signaling protein, they can prevent prostate cancer cells from metastatic dissemination. The finding opens the door to future studies examining the protein as a target for ...
Researchers Discover Traits Of Prostate Cancer Aggressive Form
Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in prostate related | No Comments »Researchers led by a team at the Michigan Center for Translational Pathology University of Michigan Health System have identified traits of an aggressive type of prostate cancer that occurs in about 10 percent of men who have the disease. They ...
A promising target for prostate cancer therapies
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »In an article that is being published today as an advanced online publication by the journal Nature, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report they have blocked the development of prostate tumors in cancer-prone mice by knocking out a molecular unit ...
Prostate cancer deaths double in men with BRCA2
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »Men with prostate cancer caused by a faulty BRCA2 gene are more than twice as likely to die from the disease than those carrying the faulty BRCA1 gene - reveals a study published in the British Journal of Cancer today ...
New treatment for prostate cancer helps maintain sexual function as well
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »A new prostate cancer treatment with fewer side effects may one day help reduce hospital waiting lists and give patients a better quality of life. Traditional radiation therapy affects tissues and blood vessels surrounding the prostate gland, leaving men diagnosed with ...
Prostate Cancer Treatment Research To Benefit From Collaboration Between UF Scientists And German Firm
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »University of Florida department of urology officials have signed an agreement to collaborate with the German biopharmaceutical company CureVac to test an experimental therapy for advanced prostate cancer patients who no longer respond to traditional treatment. CureVac - which specializes in ...
Austria to use new genetic test for prostate cancer diagnosis
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Austria's Medical University Graz said Wednesday the University Hospital would start using a new genetic urine test in July to diagnose for people who might encounter prostate cancer. The new test could also improve the veracity of the diagnosis to 80 ...
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 ...