Chemo-radiation before prostate removal may prevent cancer recurrence
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »Researchers in the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center have discovered a combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy given before prostate removal is safe and might have the potential to decrease ...
Does concurrent statin therapy help men who have EBRT for localized disease?
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in prostate chemotherapy, radiation therapy | No Comments »A scientific team at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, wanted to investigate the potential impact of statin therapy on biochemical progression-free survival and metastasis-free survival after high-dose radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer. To do this, researchers conducted a retrospective ...
New therapy turning chemo back on for prostate cancer patients
Thursday, March 25th, 2010 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »According to Dr. Rakesh Singal, medical oncologist at the University of Miami Sylvester Cancer Center, the problem with chemo is that many patients do not respond to chemotherapy in the first place, and the patients that do respond stop responding ...
Chemo-radiation before prostate removal may prevent cancer recurrence
Sunday, November 15th, 2009 Posted in prostate chemotherapy, radiation therapy | No Comments »Experts agree that in men with aggressive prostate cancer, standard therapies such as radiation or surgery often fail to eliminate the cancer completely at the site of treatment. When these cancers recur, they are often fatal Recently, researchers in the Oregon ...
New Proof that Chemotherapy Promotes Cancer
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »The same chemotherapy that cures a patient’s prostate cancer may increase that patient’s chances of developing cancer later in life in tissue adjacent to the original cancer, new research by the Buck Institute for Age Research indicates. Cells shut down and ...
What is the current status of second-line chemotherapy for castration-resistant prostate cancer?
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »Patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) who show progression of disease after first-line chemotherapy with docetaxel have few proven treatment options. Mitoxantrone plus prednisone is frequently used in this setting. The retrospective analysis by Berthold et al. of mitoxantrone after ...
From chemotherapy to exercise therapy
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in prostate chemotherapy, prostate related | No Comments »The standard weapons in the fight against cancer - surgery, chemotherapy and radiation - may soon be joined by something far simpler: exercise. New research shows that regular physical activity helps reduce the risk of recurrence of breast cancer and slows ...
Freezing sperm and eggs gives young prostate cancer patients a hope
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer, prostate chemotherapy, prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »When a man hears the diagnosis prostate cancer, surgery needed, he is crushed that the treatment would destroy his ability to have more children. Statistics show a growing number of young cancer patients freezing sperm and eggs in case surgery, chemotherapy ...
New chemo drug effective in treating prostate cancer
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »A research team at the Oregon Health and Science University have found a new chemotherapy drug, called Sagopilone, that may help treat prostate cancer. This is a new class of drug that inhibits growth and the spread of malignant cell, similar to ...
Most Cancer Survivors Say Chemo Fears Unfounded
Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »Although most cancer survivors polled in a recent survey said they had been fearful of undergoing chemotherapy, most also said the treatments were much less trying than they had expected. In fact, 94 percent said they would advise others to undergo ...