Prostate Cancer News

Men may protect more than their hearts if they keep cholesterol in line: Their chances of getting aggressive prostate cancer may be lower, new research suggests.

Prostate cancer couldn't keep Dennis Hopper away from the Breeders' Cup. The 73-year-old actor and artist attended the Breeders' Cup in support of The V Foundation for Cancer Research, the official charity of the year-ending thoroughbred championships Saturday at Santa Anita Park in Southern California.

Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that some elevated prostate-specific antigen levels in men may be caused by a hormone normally occurring in the body, and are not necessarily a predictor of the need for a prostate biopsy.

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Prostate cancer patients whose prostate-specific antigen levels rise within 18 months after radiotherapy have an increased risk of death, say U.S. researchers.

The November issue of European Urology, the official journal of the European Association of Urology, features an article focussing on prostate specific antigen velocity and early cancer detection.

Washington, Nov 6 : Synthetic molecules developed by researchers at Yale University could enhance the body's immune response to HIV and HIV-infected cells, and prostate cancer cells.

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Men with low cholesterol are less likely to get high-grade prostate cancer, a U.S. researcher says.

What do patients want from their radiation oncologists? The most significant preference is that more than one-third of female cancer patients prefer to have their hands held by their radiation oncologists during important office visits, compared to 12 percent of men, according to a randomized study presented November 4, 2009, at the 51st Annual ...

" A patient's socioeconomic status has absolutely no impact on his outcome following curative radiation therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Researchers in the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center have found a combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy given before prostate removal is safe and may have the potential to reduce cancer recurrence and improve patient survival.

Radiation dose delivered to the prostate and nearby organs in every brachytherapy procedure should be carefully analyzed using post-implant CT or MRI and uniformly documented in every patient, according to a new guideline co-authored by Yan Yu, Ph.D., director of Medical Physics in the department of Radiation Oncology at Thomas Jefferson ...

A nanotechnology therapy that targets cancer with a "stealth smart bomb" is to begin patient trials next year in the first clinical test of a pioneering approach to medicine, The Times has learnt.

Men may protect more than their hearts if they keep cholesterol in line: Their chances of getting aggressive prostate cancer may be lower, new research suggests.

Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper has announced that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

EUSA Pharma announced that PROSTASCINTA fusion imaging was shown to effectively guide prostate cancer therapy targeting and dosing and is a significant predictor of disease free survival, according to data presented on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at the 51st American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

Some of the major cancer centers across the country, including MD Anderson, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, now offer their patients yoga as a complementary therapy in an effort to provide a more integrative approach to care.

Firelands Regional Medical Center will be providing free prostate cancer screenings on Tuesday, Nov.

The American Urological Association is aware of recent news reports disparaging prostate cancer testing.