Novel vaccine increases survival in men with prostate cancer
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »Below is a comment from Otis W. Brawley, M.D., American Cancer Society chief medical officer, on the announcement that the experimental vaccine Provenge increased survival in men with prostate cancer. "This announcement is reason for optimism about a vaccine that has ...
Endocrine therapy plus radiotherapy outweigh may help prostate cancer cure
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »According to data from a follow-up of the SPCG-7/SFUO-3 trial, adding radiotherapy to endocrine treatment in men with locally advanced prostate cancer increased urinary, bowel and sexual function symptoms. However, “relative to the benefit on overall survival, death from prostate cancer, ...
Gene fusion discovery may lead to improved prostate cancer diagnosis
Sunday, April 12th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »A newly discovered gene fusion is highly expressed in a subset of prostate cancers, according to a study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College. The findings, reported in the April 1 issue of Cancer Research, may lead to more accurate ...
Regular Omega-3 EPA/DHA consumption may lower risk of prostate cancer
Friday, April 10th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Diets high in Omega-3 EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) may decrease the risk of prostate cancer, concluded a new study. The study shows that those men who ate dark, fatty fish one to three times per month had a ...
Novel drug shows promise in treating drug-resistant prostate cancer
Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »A novel therapy for metastatic prostate cancer has shown considerable promise in early clinical trials by reducing signs of the disease in patients with drug-resistant cancer. 22 men that followed the therapy showed a sustained decline in the level of ...
Psychosocial intervention beneficial for prostate cancer patients prior to surgery
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A recent study at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, concluded that brief stress management sessions prior to and immediately after surgery may have both short- and long-term benefit for men undergoing a radical prostatectomy for early-stage prostate ...
A potential new target for treatment of hormone refractory prostate cancer
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »A new study identifies a protein that modifies the androgen receptor (AR) and influences its ability to regulate target genes linked with the progression of prostate cancer. The research, published by Cell Press in the April 7th issue of the journal ...
AIIMS: Prostate cancer certainly a curable disease
Monday, April 6th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »The newly-appointed Director of the AIIMS Dr R C Deka said today that timely detection and proper medication can certainly help cure a large number of diseases, including prostate gland cancer, which has now become a global problem due to ...
Prostatectomy is going high-tech
Sunday, April 5th, 2009 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »Prostate surgery is done in a tightly confined area of the body where the targeted gland is surrounded by nerves affecting sexual function and urinary control. Under that circumstances, the least invasive surgery possible leads to the least amount of negative ...
Vitamin K and prostate cancer
Sunday, April 5th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »German scientists that build the science linking the vitamin to improved prostate health sugerst that an improved vitamin K2 status may reduce the risk of prostate cancer, Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center report that an improved status of the ...