Dietary practices when you have prostate cancer
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 Posted in alternative treatments, prostate cancer prevention, prostate related | No Comments »Some studies good dietary practices used to prevent prostate cancer should also form part of the lifestyle of men who already have the condition. - Recent studies suggeststhat a diet rich in lycopene supplement of 15 mg (one cup tomato juice has 22 ...
Prostate complications worsen with age
Monday, June 27th, 2011 Posted in prostate related | No Comments »Science has not been able to explain successfully why, when all other organs shrink during the aging process, the prostate enlarges. There is a significant role that nutrition plays in prevention of prostate cancer. Foods rich in trans fats and saturated ...
Abiraterone could help men with metastatic prostate cancer
Friday, October 15th, 2010 Posted in prostate related | No Comments »A study from the Institute of Cancer Research based in London and Surrey indicates that abiraterone acetate drug, a potentially life-prolonging pill for men with aggressive prostate cancer, could be available within a year. The study has important implications because currently ...
Radiotherapy After Prostatectomy Increased PFS in pT3 Prostate Cancer
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 Posted in prostate related, radiation therapy | No Comments »According to data from a randomized trial, radiotherapy given after radical prostatectomy increased biochemical PFS by 18% after five years among men with pT3 disease. These results support data from two previously published studies: the EORTC trial 229111 and a ...
UAMS Doctor Performs First-of-its-Kind Surgery
Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Posted in prostate related | No Comments »Medical history has been made at a Little Rock teaching hospital. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) surgeon Rabii Madi, M.D. has become the first in the nation to perform a double robotic surgery. Dr. Madi removed a patient’s cancerous kidney ...
Prostate history has no effect on outcome
Sunday, January 4th, 2009 Posted in prostate related | No Comments »A family history of prostate cancer has no impact on treatment outcomes of patients treated with brachytherapy, or seed implants, a U.S. researcher said. Lead author Dr. Christopher A. Peters of Northeast Radiation Oncology Center in Dunmore, Pa., who completed the ...
The impact of statin therapy on PSA levels
Saturday, November 8th, 2008 Posted in prostate related | No Comments »A scientific team has reported data from a longitudinal study of 1,214 men receiving statin treatment with drugs like simvastatin or atorvastatin (Lipitor) between 1990 and 2006. All patients were free of prostate cancer, had never had prostate surgery, had never ...
Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs May Also Lower PSA, but Whether They Cut Cancer Risk is Still Not Known
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in prostate related | No Comments »According to researchers in the Duke Prostate Center and the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the popular cholesterol-busting drugs -- statins -- appear to lower men's prostate-specific antigen (PSA) values along with their cholesterol levels. But whether the drugs prevent ...
The benefits of exercise for prostate cancer patients
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in prostate related | No Comments »Men with prostate cancer appear to have less fatigue after participating in a resistance training program. In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, 155 men who were scheduled to receive androgen deprivation therapy for at least three months ...
Watson Wins U.S. Approval for New Prostate Treatment (Update1) for New Prostate Treatment (Update1)
Friday, October 10th, 2008 Posted in prostate related | No Comments »Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. won U.S. approval to sell a prostate enlargement treatment as the drugmaker expands beyond manufacturing generic medicines. The Food and Drug Administration cleared the once-a-day pill Rapaflo, Watson said today in a statement on PR NewsWire. The drug ...