Vitamin E, beta-carotene may protect smokers from prostate cancer
Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in alternative treatments, prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Daily supplements of vitamin E and beta-carotene may reduce the risk of prostate cancer in smokers, but not non-smokers, reports a new study, adding more contradictory results to an already confused field. A diet rich in antioxidants like vitamins C and ...
In January the Delaware Valley Urology Cancer Treatment Center implemented Rapid-Arc, a radiation alternative for men with prostate cancer.
Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »In January the Delaware Valley Urology Cancer Treatment Center implemented Rapid-Arc, a radiation alternative for men with prostate cancer. Rapid-Arc was approved by the Federal Drug Administration in January 2008 and is used at only a handful of clinics and hospitals around ...
Report regarding continence and erectile function between 2 and 4 years post-surgery
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »There are few published reports on changes in continence and erectile function beyond 2 years after radical prostatectomy. A newly published, prospective study has reported on continence and erectile function between 2 and 4 years after radical prostatectomy. The study have ...
Men should talk to doctors about drug to prevent prostate cancer
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in alternative treatments, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »New U.S. guidelines recommend that healthy men who are regularly screened for prostate cancer and show no symptoms should talk to their doctors about taking a hormone-inhibiting drug to prevent the disease. The new guidelines from cancer specialists and urologists don’t ...
Lowering cholesterol levels may cut prostrate cancer risk
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Lowering cholesterol may block the growth of prostate tumors, claims a new study . Prostate tumors accumulate high levels of cholesterol, and tumor incidence correlates with eating a high fat/high cholesterol diet "Western" diet. In addition, prostate tumor progression has been linked ...
Prostate Cancer Charity (UK) does not support PSA test
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »According to Anna Jewell, head of policy and campaigns at the Prostate Cancer Charity (UK), this organization understands the strong views held by many people that a PSA-based screening programme should be introduced. The charity does not currently support a PSA-based ...
When should prostate-specific antigen testing be stopped?
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »The optimal approach to prostate cancer screening remains controversial. Because PSA screening can find cancers that may become life-threatening in 5 to 25 years, there has been increased usage of the test in 40 to 50-year-olds. But the test can also ...
DRE for prostate cancer at the time of colonoscopy
Saturday, February 21st, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Urologists suspect that most men who are having colonoscopies are already highly likely to have had PSA tests and DREs, and doubts that DRE at the time of cystoscopy would actually offer any significant benefit. Therefore they have proposed that colonoscopy ...
Risks associated with low levels of lymphocyte apoptosis in patients receiving radiation therapy
Friday, February 20th, 2009 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »A scientific team has reported that, in men receiving external beam radiation therapy as treatment for localized disease, the occurrence of high levels of lymphocyte apoptosis (programmed cell death of white cells known as lymphocytes found in the bloodstream and ...
Stiffening of the large arteries in men receiving antiandrogen therapy
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »A new research shown that antiandrogen treatment (with bicalutamide) in men with prostate cancer may increase stiffness of the large arteries, which is an adverse cardiovascular risk factor. The also noted that this effect was not maintained with testosterone receptor blockade ...