New approach in prostate cancer cure
Saturday, May 30th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »Doctors are starting to consider a new approach to treat prostate cancer disease, that means to attempt gene-guided treatment for men with advanced disease. Researchers claim that cancerous tumors carry a signature of gene and protein activity that reveal whether a ...
Why some prostate cancer returns
Friday, May 29th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »A recent study, a collaboration between researchers at the Josephine Ford Cancer Center at Henry Ford Hospital and Fox Chase Cancer Center, shows that men with a low oxygen supply to their tumor have a higher chance of the prostate ...
Early detection is key to beating prostate cancer
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Acording to Dr. Anthony Catanese of Somerset Medical Center, the key to staving off or even preventing men to die from prostate cancer is early detection. "There are two kinds of prostate cancer: aggressive and less aggressive," said Catanese, who works ...
Controversy in the appropriate use of HIFU
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in hifu | No Comments »Recently, a UK-based team working at a major London teaching hospital reported very poor 2-year follow-up data after treating a series of 31 newly diagnosed and 12 salvage patients with high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) using second-generation Ablatherm equipment. They stated ...
No-carb diet appears to slow prostate cancer growth
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in alternative treatments | No Comments »A new study in mice the Duke Prostate Center has suggested that restricting carbohydrates could slow the growth of prostate cancer tumours. Stephen Freedland, M.D., urologist and lead investigator on this study said that the researchers believe that insulin and insulin-like ...
Ultrasound prostate cancer device touted
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in hifu | No Comments »A new ultrasound treatment for prostate cancer is showing promise of stopping the disease without causing impotence or incontinence, observers say. The still-experimental treatment, called high-intensity focused ultrasound, uses the sonic technology to heat the prostate to the point of killing ...
Advances in imaging of the prostate gland
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »The treatment and management of prostate cancer remains one of the most challenging areas in medicine today. There is no area in urology that has undergone more intensive research over the last decade than improving the detection and cure of ...
Transrectal ultrasound: impact on clinical staging
Monday, May 25th, 2009 Posted in hifu | No Comments »New data just published by a group at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) suggests that, in the current era, transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) provides an accurate means to assess the clinical (pre-treatment) stage of a man’s prostate cancer. Most clinicians ...
Semen test for prostate cancer
Monday, May 25th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Men could be tested for prostate cancer in future by studying samples of their semen, it was claimed yesterday. Scientists have developed a new three-minute test for disease that relies on shining light through fluid from the prostate gland. At present the ...
Surgeons reviewed advances in radical prostatectomy
Sunday, May 24th, 2009 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A team at Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA. have reviewed advances in radical prostatectomy over the past 25 years (since the initial introduction of nerve-sparing surgery). Today open radical prostatectomy is a less-invasive procedure with low ...