Vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy for localized prostate cancer
Saturday, July 31st, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »NYU Langone Medical Center has begun a clinical trial offering vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy to patients with localized prostate cancer. This procedure only treats the cancerous part of the prostate gland, similar to how a lumpectomy might be done for breast cancer This ...
Cell that could be ‘mother’ of all prostate tumours identified
Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »According to new studies at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a type of prostate cell that has been largely ignored by cancer researchers can, in fact, trigger malignant prostate cancer, HHMI researchers found that the somewhat overlooked prostate basal cell can ...
New surgical procedure for prostate cancer uses natural orifices
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »Removing the prostate is a common treatment for patients with prostate cancer.Recently, urologists at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, suggest that the latest advances in the surgical treatment of the disease involve using the body's own natural orifices as access points instead ...
New GPS-like system to track prostate cancer tumors
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »The Cedars-Sinai's Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute is now being offering to patients undergoing radiation therapy a new system that utilizes a precise a GPS-like system to track prostate cancer tumors. The monitoring system, called Calypso, allows radiation beams to more ...
Men with long ring finger ‘three times more likely to get prostate cancer’
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »Doctors at the Gachon University Gil Hospital, in Incheon, South Korea concluded Men with a long ring finger could be three times more likely to develop prostate cancer, reports the Daily Mail. They found that the risk increases if the ring ...
New report shows most men with low PSA undergo aggressive therapy
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »According to a report in the July 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, most men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer appear to under undergo aggressive therapy, even if they have a low prostate-specific ...
Diagnosis of prostate cancer by detection of minichromosome maintenance 5 protein in urine sediments
Monday, July 26th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Previous studies suggested the accuracy of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing in prostate cancer detection is constrained by low sensitivity and specificity. Dysregulated expression of minichromosome maintenance (Mcm) 2–7 proteins is an early event in epithelial multistep carcinogenesis and thus MCM ...
Dog’s sense of smell could help diagnose a man’s prostate cancer
Sunday, July 25th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »A new study demonstrated that dogs can be trained to identify and diagnose prostate cancer. The study leader explained that the trained dogs, out of a study in France, sniffed the urine of men with prostate cancer and were nearly perfect ...
Baseline PSA as a predictor of prostate cancer-specific mortality
Saturday, July 24th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A new study at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, investigated the possibility of identification of the risk of death from prostate cancer and death from all causes using information available at the time of baseline prostate-specific antigen (PSA) ...
Implications of detection and characteristics of primary circulating prostate cells for surgical treatment of prostate cancer
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A recent study at Hospital de Carabineros de Chile, Chile, had two objectives: 1. To determine the frequency of primary circulating prostate cells (CPCs) in men with prostate cancer at the time of diagnosis, the association with micrometastasis, sub-classification for CD82 ...