A new kit to diagnose prostate cancer
Friday, August 13th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »A Winnipeg medical diagnostic company has developed a new kit that could make it easier to diagnose patients with prostate cancer. The new prostate-cancer kit, which took several years to develop, measures the amount of a particular amino acid protein -- ...
Drugs may cause errors in prostate screening tests
Sunday, August 8th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Authors of a new study say some of the most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S. may skew results on prostate screening tests, causing errors in diagnosis. Researchers say non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like cholesterol-lowering statins, painkillers, and some diuretics can actually ...
Gel targets prostate cancer
Sunday, August 1st, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | 1 Comment »According to statistics, prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men. The big problem is that tracking the progress of the disease is often difficult. A typical diagnosis relies on a blood test for a specific protein called ...
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 ...
Diagnosis of prostate cancer by detection of minichromosome maintenance 5 protein in urine sediments
Monday, July 26th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | 2 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 ...
How many early detected prostate cancers are needed to prevent one death?
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »A study at Hospital Clinico Universitario Zaragoza, Spain, aimed to determine the clinical significance of diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer diagnosed in asymptomatic patients, in terms of survival and to face its disadvantages. The study conclusions highlight the limited evidence for ...
Claros Diagnostics receives CE Mark approval for point-of-care PSA system
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »Claros Diagnostics, a developer of novel point-of-care in vitro diagnostic systems, today announced the CE Mark approval for its rapid quantitative point-of-care diagnostic platform. This platform can now be used for prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing throughout the European Union. The ...
Prostate test ‘can predict death risk’
Saturday, July 10th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | No Comments »A research at Duke University Medical Center has found that men who have a baseline PSA value of 10 or higher the first time they are tested are up to 11 times more likely to die from prostate cancer than ...
Outcome of prostate biopsy in men younger than 40 years of age
Friday, July 9th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer diagnosis | 2 Comments »Experts say that prostate cancer is rarely diagnosed in men younger than 40 years of age. According to statistics, the available data show a low rate of cancer detection from prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening of this group of young men. A ...