Alterations of histone modifications predict prostate cancer recurrence
Friday, October 9th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »Experts say that epigenetic alterations such histone modifications play important roles in carcinogenesis. It was very often reported that global histone modification patterns are predictors of cancer recurrence in various tumor entities. A recent study at Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Bonn, Germany suggests ...
External radiotherapy for prostate cancer with or without androgen deprivation
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 Posted in hormone therapy, radiation therapy | No Comments »A team at Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Genève, Switzerland has investigated the experience in treating prostate cancer with high dose curative radiotherapy (RT) with or without androgen deprivation (AD). The team concluded that AD+RT significantly improved both 10-year OS and bDFS, ...
Depression in older prostate cancer patients
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »There are good evidence suggesting that older cancer patients report less “distress” than younger cancer patients. However, there has been very little research to date into the distinctions among general distress, anxiety, and depression in aging prostate cancer patients. A recent ...
Low Gleason score don’t guarantee low-risk prostate cancer
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Researchers say that prostate cancer patients who have a low Gleason score (GS) at biopsy do not always have low-risk disease. Their findings indicate that GS should not be used as the only factor to assess disease risk in newly diagnosed ...
How prostate cancer influences men’s daily lives
Monday, October 5th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »A dissertation thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that men who have prostate cancer often feel quite healthy, but the diagnosis still gives them a whole new outlook on life. Once they have learned ...
Study: Laparoscopic and traditional open surgery work equally well in prostate cancer treatment
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »Many prostate cancer patients reject surgery because of the recovery period and potential side effects such as impotence and incontinence. Traditional surgery means that the prostate gland is removed via an incision below the belly button. With laparoscopic surgery, a ...
COX-2 inhibitors have no effect in preventing prostate cancer
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer prevention | No Comments »A recent Phase II trial of the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib (Celebrex/Pfizer) concluded that this agent “had no effect on intermediate biomarkers of prostate carcinogenesis.” The main conclusion of authors is that 4 to 6 weeks treatment with celecoxib had no effect ...
Side effects in patients treated with CyberKnife Radiosurgery
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »The global leader in the field of radiosurgery, Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), announced today publication of results from a study of early stage prostate cancer patients treated with CyberKnife Radiosurgery. The study concluded that erectile function was preserved in 81 ...