Adjuvant radiotherapy has been shown to prolong survival after surgery
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »A research team at Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Marsden Hospital, UK has reviewed the evidence for neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment approaches when surgery is chosen as the definitive therapy for high-risk prostate cancer. Among these, only adjuvant radiotherapy has been ...
Prostate needle biopsies aren’t predictive of the laterality of significant cancer
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Data from 490 patients undergoing LRP by one surgeon were reviewed retrospectively by a team from Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA to determine whether data obtained from preoperative prostate needle biopsy can predict the laterality of significant cancer and ...
New prostate cancer vaccine enters clinical trials
Sunday, August 9th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced dosing of the first patient in a Phase I/II clinical trial of BP-GMAX-CD1, a novel pharmacologically regulated dendritic cell vaccine for the treatment of prostate cancer. The disease-specific trial is being conducted under a Bellicum ...
“Watchful Waiting” does not increase anxiety in prostate cancer patients
Saturday, August 8th, 2009 Posted in watchful waiting | No Comments »According to researchers from the Netherlands men who choose to delay treatment for early prostate cancer do not experience increased anxiety from living with the disease. The results of this study appeared in an early online publication in Cancer on ...
Urinary prostate cancer 3 test
Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »The prostate cancer 3 (PCA3) gene was discovered in 1999, on the basis of differential expression between cancer and noncancerous prostate tissue. Including the first study published in 2003, 11 clinical studies have evaluated its utility for the diagnosis of ...
Anti-inflammatory drugs, antioxidants, and prostate cancer prevention
Thursday, August 6th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »Damage to the prostate epithelium, triggers procarcinogenic inflammatory processes to promote disease development. The damaged epithelium may generate proliferative inflammatory atrophy (PIA) lesions, which may progress to prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) or to prostate cancer. To attenuate prostatic carcinogenesis generated by ...
Exercise regimens fight side effects of ADT
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »A group of Australian researchers express the hope that exercise regimens will help to avoid the side effects of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), when used in the long-term treatment of men with prostate cancer. It has long been known that this ...
Seed implants may be a suitable treatment option for prostate cancer patients of all ages
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »A recent study conducted by scientists at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and North Shore-LIJ Health System suggests that age does not make any difference in the long-term therapeutic outcome. Researchers concluded seed implants may be a suitable prostate cancer ...
Screening with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA)
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »In the United States, prostate cancer will affect 1 man in 6 during his lifetime. Since the mid-1980s, screening with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test has more than doubled the risk of a prostate cancer diagnosis. A decrease in ...
High-dose radiotherapy offers better protection against prostate cancer
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »There are uncertain opinions regarding the effectiveness radiotherapy as treatment for localized prostate cancer. While dose escalation for radiotherapy appears to improve outcomes, differing dose relationships among studies have meant that meaningful assessments of survival are problematic. In a recent studies, ...