Hormone Blockers Don’t Help Early Prostate Cancer
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »Hormone therapy blocks production of testosterone, which feeds cancer cells. Widely used hormone-blocking drugs failed to improve survival in older men with early prostate cancer that hasn't spread, a study found. In fact, men given the drugs alone were slightly more ...
Hormone Therapy Shows Little Benefit Against Prostate Cancer
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »Survival rates no different than 'watchful waiting,' study shows. An increasingly common therapy used for localized prostate cancer may not bestow any survival benefits on the patient beyond those seen with a simple "wait-and-see" approach. Men taking androgen deprivation therapy, which shuts ...
Prostate cancer vaccines found to be more effective with hormone therapy
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy, prostate cancer | No Comments »According to recent data published in the July 15 Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, the addition of hormone therapy following vaccine treatment improved overall survival compared with ...
Elderly may fare worse on prostate cancer drugs
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread. In fact, men given the drugs alone were slightly more ...
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 ...
The Risk Of Renal Impairment In Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer Patients With Bone Metastases Treated With Zoledronic Acid
Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »Nearly one-quarter of prostate cancer (CaP) patients treated with zoledronic acid (ZA) suffer renal impairment according to a report by Dr. Oh and colleagues in the online version of Cancer. ZA is an intravenous bisphosphonate given to decrease skeletal related events ...
High fat diet may abet prostate cancer progression
Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in alternative treatments | No Comments »Researchers from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston report that diets high in saturated fat may increase the risk of prostate cancer progression In a follow up study of men who had their cancerous prostates removed, ...
Men with desk jobs have higher risk of prostate cancer
Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A new study has shown tha men who work sitting at a desk are more likely to develop prostate cancer than manual workers. The findings, published in the European Journal of Cancer Prevention, confirm the benefits of regular exercise in reducing ...
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 ...
Prostate cancer worries women
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »A study has found that women are more distressed by prostate cancer than their male partners who are diagnosed with the disease. Research presented in Australia to a national psychiatry conference has found that prostate cancer sufferers initially cope much better ...