Low literacy levels associated to limited comprehension of prostate cancer terms
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »A recent study reviewed patient education materials and prostate-specific quality-of-life instruments to identify technical terms describing sexual, urinary, and bowel function. The team has reported on the very low level of understanding of prostate cancer-related terms among an underserved group of men ...
Identification of good candidates for salvage radical prostatectomy
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »Salvage radical prostatectomy (SRP) for radiorecurrent prostate cancer (PCa) is a second local treatment with curative intent in patients with true organ-confined recurrent PCa. A research team at University Aachen, Germany has recently studied prognostic factors that can be used to ...
Potential genetic prostate cancer variation found
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »A study published Monday has linked a common genetic variation to the development of prostate cancer.The variation occurs in a gene known for its role in prostate function, according to researchers at the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), who now believe a ...
Study reports PROVENGE may prolong survival in men with advanced prostate cancer
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »The Cancer Research Centers in Dallas, Texas, announced that the pivotal Phase 3 IMPACT study of PROVENGE(R) (sipuleucel-T) in men with advanced prostate cancer met its primary endpoint of improving overall survival compared to a placebo control. The magnitude of ...
HIFU and cryotherapy in focal therapy for prostate cancer
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in hifu, prostate cryotherapy | No Comments »A recent study has shown that, in a series of 127 consecutive Chinese patients, treated with either high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) or targeted cryoablation of the prostate (TCAP), the tissue trauma and associated invasiveness of HIFU is significantly less than ...
Hopes to diagnose prostrate cancer much earlier
Monday, April 20th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »A new strategy is being developed at the University of Leicester that could pick up prostrate cancer much more quickly. Researchers have been awarded more than £300,000 of funding to see how nanotechnology can tackle this and other aggressive cancers. Dr Glenn ...
A new prostate cancer treatment that kills tumours by heating
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »Researchers at University of Leicester's Department of Chemistry have developed a method of finding and treating tumours at the same time using microscopic particles. Prostate glands will be blasted with millions of charged magnetic nanoparticles which illuminate tumours and then heat ...
Active surveillance: current criteria for management and outcomes overview
Saturday, April 18th, 2009 Posted in watchful waiting | No Comments »A recent study has carried out a systematic review of active surveillance protocols to assess the inclusion criteria for active surveillance and the outcome of treatment. Researchers' review included all publications through October 2008. They report that recent inclusion criteria of the ...
Cardiac drug may interrupt prostate tumor growth
Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »In a recently published paper, Dr. Semenza and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, reported that digoxin (Lanoxin) can affect tumor biology and interfere with tumor growth and may provide a basis for conducting clinical trials to ...
Stereotactic Biopsy System Delivers Greater Accuracy In Detecting Cancer And Planning For Targeted Prostate Cancer Therapies
Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Urologists convening this week at the Southeast Conference of the American Urological Association (AUA) in Mobile will deliver results from a study of a prostate biopsy targeting method that guides accurate and reproducible prostate biopsies. Additionally, the preliminary data shows ...