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 ...
Consistent PSA Screening Results In Better Prognosis
Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Recently, PSA or prostate-specific antigen, screening made headlines when a US Preventive Task Force recommended that men over the age 75 discontinue screening for prostate cancer. While there is currently no definitive data regarding improvement in survival from screening for prostate ...
Desk jobs increase risk of prostate cancer
Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »MEN who work sitting at a desk are more likely to develop prostate cancer than manual workers, a study has shown. Scientists looked at whether levels of physical activity in the workplace were linked with tumours and found that having a ...
Alternative Vaccine Strategy Shows Promise in Prostate Cancer Patients
Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Therapeutic cancer vaccines are designed to treat cancer by stimulating the immune system to attack tumor cells without harming normal cells. New research indicates that giving patients a continuous low dose of an immune system booster, a method known as metronomic ...
Vitamin D doesn’t cut prostate cancer risk
Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted in alternative treatments, prostate cancer risks | No Comments »U.S. National Cancer Institute researchers set out to see if vitamin D might protect against prostate cancer, the second most frequently diagnosed cancer in men worldwide. They tracked vitamin D concentrations in the blood of 749 men diagnosed with prostate ...
Seattle researchers find genetic scrap in prostate cancer that could yield a test
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »In the study, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, cancer researchers in Seattle reported they isolated dozens of microRNAs from human blood plasma, the liquid left after cells are removed. Using mice implanted with human prostate ...
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 ...
One-fifth of men under 50 do prostate test
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »One-fifth of men under age 50 report having had a prostate specific antigen test to detect prostate cancer in the previous year, U.S. researchers say. Researchers at Duke University Medicine's Prostate Center said only one in three young black men reported ...
Surgery Helps With Prostate Cancer, Sometimes
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostatectomy | No Comments »The latest update from a European study that has followed men with prostate cancer for more than a decade leaves the debate about the advantages of aggressive treatment versus "watchful waiting" undecided. The advantage in survival seen for men who underwent ...
Schneck to host free prostrate exams
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »The Schneck Medical Center Foundation will again sponsor free prostate cancer screening tests on Sept. 11, 16, and Oct. 7. The screenings will be at Schneck’s Cancer Center on the medical center campus. You must have a scheduled appointment to ...