New findings may lead to novel therapeutic approaches for prostate cancer
Friday, November 6th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »The recent findings of researchers at Yale University could lead to novel therapeutic approaches for prostate cancer. Thus, they have developed synthetic molecules capable of enhancing the body's immune response to prostate cancer cells. The molecules - called "antibody-recruiting molecule targeting ...
Study concluded that PSA velocity is very little predictive in prostate cancer detection
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Many experts think that a rapidly rising PSA may indicate a greater risk of diagnosis of prostate cancer even if PSA levels are low. More than that, some guidelines do incorporate PSA velocity cut points as an indication for biopsy. The ...
Extra dose of proton radiation therapy reduces prostate cancer recurrences
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »A research study presented November 2, 2009, at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's 51st Annual Meeting in Chicago, has found that men who receive a "boost" of proton therapy after receiving a standard course of X-ray radiation therapy have ...
PROSTASCINT effective in guiding targeted prostate cancer treatment
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »According to data presented on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at the 51st American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, PROSTASCINT - capromab pendetide - was shown to effectively guide prostate cancer therapy targeting and dosing ...
Radiation therapy technique successfully treats pain in patients with advanced cancer
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »Researchers from University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) have found that stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), a radiation therapy procedure pioneered at the UPCI that precisely delivers a large dose of radiation to tumors, effectively controls pain in patients with cancer that ...
Proton beam therapy cam have minimal effects in prostate cancer patients
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »According to a study presented November 2, 2009, at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's 51st Annual Meeting in Chicago, proton beam therapy, a form of external beam radiation treatment, can be safely delivered to men with prostate cancer and ...
Hormone therapy can help patients with prostate cancer
Monday, November 2nd, 2009 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »A research group reported Monday at the American Society for Radiation Oncology annual meeting, in Chicago that a brief course of hormone-blocking therapy can provide small benefits to a specific group of men who get radiation therapy for prostate cancer. According ...
Prostate cancer-specific mortality after radical prostatectomy for patients treated since the introduction of PSA.
Sunday, November 1st, 2009 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A multi-institutional study reports on prostate cancer (CaP)-specific mortality after radical prostatectomy (RP) treated since the introduction of PSA. The study sought to establish a predictive nomogram and modeled the nomogram on 6,398 patients treated with RP at Baylor and Memorial Sloan-Kettering ...