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Friday, 12 March 2010- Expensive prostate cancer treatments are winning out over the old standards, driving up the cost of treatment before there's clear evidence that they improve outcomes, according to researchers who...
Edited by: JV
Thursday, 11 March 2010- Robot-assisted surgery for prostate cancer may require alteration in radiation planning but doesn't preclude sufficient lymph node sampling, according to results of two studies presented at the ASCO...
Thursday, 11 March 2010- A virus that destroys cancer cells but leaves normal cells unharmed works against prostate cancer, according to a study conducted by Canadian researchers.
The virus also blasts lymphoid, colon, ovarian,...
Thursday, 11 March 2010- An analysis of outcomes for live kidney donors in the US over a 15 year period finds they have similar long-term survival rates compared to healthy individuals who were not kidney donors, according to a...
Edited by: ES
Thursday, 11 March 2010- Researchers involved in the international Reduction by Dutasteride of Prostate Cancer Events (REDUCE) trial have reported that the urinary PCA3 test can predict biopsy outcome in men taking dutasteride....
Wednesday, 10 March 2010- A new study published in the latest issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine by an investigator at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and colleagues at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in...
Wednesday, 10 March 2010- Prostate-specific dietary supplements should not be taken during radiation therapy treatments because they have been shown to increase the radiosensitivity of normal prostate cell lines, leading to...
Wednesday, 10 March 2010- Alcohol consumption may be associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer in African-American men, according to researchers.
A team led by Lionel L. Bañez, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke...
Tuesday, 9 March 2010- Cumulative mortality from prostate cancer 15 years after radical prostatectomy is six times lower than death from other causes, according to study findings presented at the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium....
Tuesday, 8 March 2010- Skeletal-related events (SREs) in patients with metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer (mHRPC) are mostly due to bony metastatic disease and not decreased bone mineral density (BMD), according to...
Monday, 8 March 2010- The Prostate Cancer Gene 3 (PCA3) test score at the time of a negative first biopsy predicted a positive rebiopsy two years later with 79.1% specificity and 36.4% sensitivity, according to retrospective...
Friday, 5 March 2010- The novel chemotherapy drug cabazitaxel substantially improves survival in hormone- and chemotherapy-refractory prostate cancer, making it the first treatment of any kind to do so, according to the final...
Friday, 5 March 2010- Principles of shared decision-making should guide a man's decision about screening for prostate cancer, according to updated guidelines from the American Cancer Society (ACS).
Beginning at age 50,...
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Wednesday, 3 March 2010- Robotic surgical technology's 3-D HD view gives surgeons compensatory illusion of tactile sensation.Robotic surgical technology with its three-dimensional, high-definition view gives surgeons the...
Wednesday, 3 March 2010- Uroplasty, Inc. published the results of its SUmiT Trial on the effectiveness of its Urgent® PC Neuromodulation System. The results appear in the April 2010 print edition of the Journal of Urology and is...
Tuesday, 2 March 2010- Monash University biomedical scientists (Monash, Australia) have identified a new way to treat castrate resistant cells in prostate cancer sufferers.
The team, from the Prostate & Breast Cancer...
Monday, 1 March 2010- The diagnostic accuracy of prostate cancer detection could be improved by using prostate-specific antigen (PSA) isoform p2PSA in combination with total PSA (tPSA) and free PSA (fPSA), researchers...
Thursday, 25 February 2010- A new US study suggests that prostate cancer patients treated by more experienced urologic surgeons with higher volumes of surgery achieve improved results.
Researchers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering...
Thursday, 25 February 2010- A new analysis of the outcomes of different types of radical prostatectomy appears to show no difference between the patients’ clinical outcomes following laparoscopic (including non-robot-assisted and...
