Continued costs of prostate cancer treatment are not sustainable
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »Two recent studies have examined the increasing economic burden of prostate cancer — in the USA and in selected European nations. The picture is not a pretty one. The American study conducted a retrospective analysis of medical and pharmacy claims between ...
Effect of aspirin on PSA and PSA velocity
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Researcherd at University of Arizona, say that aspirin, other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and statins have been associated with lower risk of prostate cancer and its progression, though results have been inconsistent. The study findings support the effect of aspirin use ...
Genetic test that can distinguish between aggressive prostate cancers slow-growing tumors
Monday, February 15th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »Harvard researchers showed in a model that when you take a gene out, you get metastasis and when you put it back in you don't get metastasis. Based on this conclusion, they report what they say is a major advance ...
Using finasteride and dutasteride to prevent prostate cancer
Saturday, February 13th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »A recent study at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has reanalyzed data regarding Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) to see if it is possible to address this problem. The authors state two conclusions: Clinicians wishing to reduce the risk of any biopsy-detectable prostate cancer should recommend finasteride ...
Ethnicity and first-line treatment for localized prostate cancer
Friday, February 12th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »Previous reports have revealed a trend of differing modalities of treatment chosen by African American and white men. As men diagnosed with prostate cancer have multiple options available for treatment a recent sientific team investigated the role of ethnicity in ...
Stereotactic body radiotherapy for organ-confined prostate cancer
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »Urologists suggest that the potential to reduce treatment-related morbidity and maintain quality of life following prostate cancer treatment will depend by improved understanding of prostate cancer radiobiology combined with advances in delivery of radiation to the moving prostate offer A recent ...
Possible new approach to treating prostate cancers
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »Researchers at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine developed treatments for prostate cancer based on on a workhorse protein called RSK When activated, RSK is involved in cell survival, cell proliferation and cell enlargement. In a new approach to developing treatments for ...
Management of prostate cancer recurrence after definitive radiation therapy
Monday, February 8th, 2010 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »The management of prostate cancer recurrence after definitive radiation therapy is shifting and there is no consensus regarding the optimal strategy. The major challenge is determining the anatomical site of relapse. In case of biochemical relapse, androgen deprivation therapy is ...
Androgen deprivation therapy can increase heart risk factors
Sunday, February 7th, 2010 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »According to a science advisory published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, (AHA), androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), commonly used in prostate cancer treatment, can worsen heart risk factors and may increase the risk of heart attack and/or cardiac ...
A positive surgical margin predicts the recurrence of prostate cancer
Saturday, February 6th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A research team has recently published data based on a series of 11,729 patients who underwent open radical retropublic prostatectomy at the Mayor Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, between 1990 and 2006. Researchers goal was to better establish the impact of ...