New hormone treatment option in the fight against prostate cancer
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »UK urologists have recently a new 12 month hormone therapy treatment for men with advanced prostate cancer. The Vantas® (histrelin) implant is a small and flexible device, made from the same materials as soft contact lenses and is the first 12 month ...
Stanford study bolsters case for preventive prostate cancer treatment
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »For the last six years, doctors have faced a dilemma about whether to treat men at risk of prostate cancer with the drug finasteride. On one hand, the drug had been shown to prevent cancer in about one of every ...
A new prostate cancer “homing device” for drug delivery
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »A research team at Purdue University has synthesized a molecule that finds and penetrates prostate cancer cells and has created imaging agents and therapeutic drugs that can link to the molecule and be carried with it as cargo. According to ...
The potential of 3T MRI in prostate cancer prognosis pre-surgery
Sunday, July 5th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »An accurate prediction of final pathological stage is essential for proper patient selection to determine who will experience maximum benefit from radical prostatectomy. In this context, the Partin tables represent one of the most widely used statistical prediction tools. A recent ...
Sound waves able to treat prostate cancer offering fewer side effects
Saturday, July 4th, 2009 Posted in hifu | No Comments »According to the results of a UK study published in the British Journal of Cancer, an experimental cancer therapy for prostate cancer, known as High-Intensity-Focused-Ultrasound or HIFU, may be able to treat men without surgery and offer fewer side effects. ...
Diet for a healthy prostate
Friday, July 3rd, 2009 Posted in alternative treatments, prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »From a dietary point of view, there haven't been enough well-controlled studies on any nutrients or supplements to be able to draw definitive conclusions regarding prostate cancer prevention. But many reports revealed the evidence that nutrients such as lycopene (a component released when tomatoes are ...
New method for prostate cancer metastasis prediction
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »According to cancer experts at Johns Hopkins, a recent study tracking 774 prostate cancer patients for a median of eight years has revealed that a three-way combination of measurements has the best chance yet of predicting disease metastasis. The new prediction ...
First patient in Europe to have his prostate removed with da Vinci Si gadget
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »The first patient in Europe was recently operated in London for prostate cancer using the £2million 'da Vinci Si' gadget. The Daily Express posted that patient's operation was a great success and doctors were impressed with the enhanced performance of ...