Red wine consumption and risk of prostate cancer
Sunday, July 19th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Red wine contains polyphenol antioxidants that inhibit prostate cancer development in animal studies. Recently, a scientific team has investigated the effect of red wine intake on risk of prostate cancer using data prospectively collected in the California Men's Health Study ...
What to consider when choosing the treatment
Friday, July 17th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »According to previous outcomes, use of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) may be associated with an increased risk of diabetes mellitus but the risk of both acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and cardiovascular mortality remain controversial because few outcomes and conflicting findings ...
Impact of androgen deprivation therapy on cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »According to previous outcomes, use of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) may be associated with an increased risk of diabetes mellitus but the risk of both acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and cardiovascular mortality remain controversial because few outcomes and conflicting findings ...
Circulating tumor cells helps advanced prostate cancer prognostic
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have been approved for marketing by the US Food and Drug Administration as a useful prognostic tool for the management of patients with advanced prostate cancer. Urologists agree that baseline CTC values provide important prognostic information ...
Brachytherapy: Aggressive prostate cancer may be under-treated
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have performed the first and only study designed to compare a single prostate cancer treatment, brachytherapy, to a combination of treatment methods for differences in mortality rates in men with high-risk prostate cancer. The ...
Molecule detects, treats prostate cancer
Monday, July 13th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »U.S. scientists say they have developed a prostate cancer "homing device" that could improve detection and allow the first targeted treatment of the disease. Purdue University researchers said they synthesized a molecule that finds and penetrates prostate cancer cells, and have ...
Infusion of Zoledronic Acid induces bone loss in men with hormone-naive prostate carcinoma
Sunday, July 12th, 2009 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »Androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) decreases bone mineral density (BMD) and increases fracture risk in patients with prostate carcinoma. A research team at Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan has recently investigated the effectiveness of a single infusion of zoledronic acid ...
Prostate cancer awareness
Saturday, July 11th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »As a part of Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration, thousands of people got up early Saturday morning to participate in the Unite 2 Fight Against Prostate Cancer Run/Walk.
Magnetic induction useful in prostate cancer diagnosis
Friday, July 10th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »The results of a preliminary study at Istanbul University, Turkey, indicate that a noninvasive magnetic induction technique for assessing the resonance of tissues may be useful as a screening tool for prostate cancer. Magnetic fields associated with bioelectric interactions may be ...
New technology eases cancer treatment: Rapid Radiation
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »Undergoing radiation therapy can be a weary process for cancer patients. There are daily, weekday trips to therapy for six to eight weeks. Patients can become fatigued and often have to cope with side effects of treatment. During visits, they must lie ...