Sexual Potency After Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Stabilizes After...
According to data from a prospective cohort study by Richard Valicenti, MD, of the University of California Davis and colleagues, sexual function declines in the first two years after external beam...
View ArticleProstate Cancer Vaccine Fights Tumors Without Damaging Healthy Tissue In Mice
Researchers have developed a vaccine that destroys even advanced prostate tumors without any side effects. The vaccine has only been shown to work in mice, but the researchers from the Mayo Clinic in...
View ArticleSaturation Biopsy Detects More Cancers
According to a new report, analysis of 20 to 24 biopsy cores is superior to analysis of 12 to 14 cores for detecting prostate cancer in men who’ve had a normal prostate biopsy in the past. J. Stephen...
View ArticlePre-op Counseling For Prostate Surgery Not Effective
Researchers have found that over half of men undergoing radical prostatectomy have unrealistic expectations about some of the outcomes. Daniela Wittmann, MSW, and colleagues at the University of...
View ArticleNo Significant Association Found Between Androgen Deprivation Therapy and...
Treatment with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) does not significantly increase the risk of cardiovascular mortality according to evaluation of mortality data in a large registry of men treated for...
View ArticleGene Test Effectively Predicts Presence of nearby Prostate Cancer
Data from a large group of tissue samples showed that gene expression in prostate stroma predicted the presence of nearby cancer with 97% overall accuracy. Stroma adjacent to or near prostate tumors...
View ArticleProstate Cancer Patients on ADT Not Affected by Provenge
A recent study, led by Tomasz Beer, MD, Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, found that prostate cancer (PCa) patients on androgen deprivation...
View ArticleChemicals in Plastics May Increase the Risk of Prostate Cancer
A chemical found in babies’ bottles, as well as many other plastics, has been linked to an increased risk of prostate cancer, warns scientists. In experiments, newborn rats were fed bisphenol A, which...
View ArticleLow-Fat Diet May Reduce Risk of Prostate Cancer
According to a study lead by a team of researchers at Jonsson Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, a diet high in unhealthy types of fats is a potential cause of prostatic...
View ArticleProstate Cancer and Genetics
Although prostate cancer is the most common cancer found in men, the pathophysiology of this disease remains poorly understood. No definite behavioral or environmental risk factors have been...
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