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Common prescription medication use and erectile dysfunction

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Tuesday, 18 June 2013- V. Kupelian and colleagues conducted a study to investigate the association of ED with commonly used medications including antihypertensive, psychoactive medications, and pain and anti-inflammatory medications. They published their findings in an online edition of BJU...

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Black tea consumption and prostate cancer risk

Monday, 17 June 2013- Flavonoids are natural antioxidants found in various foods, and a major source is black tea. Some experimental evidence indicates that flavonoids could prevent prostate cancer.

M. Geybels and colleagues investigated the associations between flavonoid intake, black tea...

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Prostate enzyme enables detection of metastases during molecular imaging

Friday, 14 June 2013- No matter where they have hidden, metastatic prostate cancer cells still express some of the same signaling as normal prostate cells; in some cases even more so, as with the PSMA enzyme.

Harnessing this enzyme could mean the beginning of a new platform for prostate cancer...

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PSA concentration is linked with disease reclassification rate on active surveillance prostate biopsy in men with low PSA density

Thursday, 13 June 2013- M. Umbehr and colleagues conducted a study to investigate the association between serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) concentration at active surveillance (AS) entry and disease reclassification on subsequent AS biopsy (‘biopsy reclassification’) in men with low PSA...

Expression of VEGF and VEGF receptors linked with BCa stage and recurrence

Wednesday, 12 June 2013- Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) signaling is frequently altered in invasive tumor cells and is associated with patient outcome.

In their study P. K. Kopparapu and colleagues examined VEGF, VEGFR1, and VEGFR2 expression in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer...

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Potential of vegetable fat to reduce risk of all-cause mortality among PCa patients

Thursday, 13 June 2013- Nearly 2.5 million men currently live with prostate cancer in the United States, yet little is known about the association between diet after diagnosis and prostate cancer progression and overall mortality.

E. Richman and colleagues conducted a study to examine...

No FDA OK for tivozanib as kidney cancer drug

Wednesday, 12 June 2013- The FDA has rejected the oral VEGF receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor tivozanib, intended for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma, according to the drug's developer. AVEO Oncology, of Cambridge, Mass., said it has received a Complete Response letter from the agency,...

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Visitors flock to EAU History Office’s intriguing exhibit in Milan

Thursday, 21 March 2013- A steady stream of visitors flocked to the History Office’s Milan exhibit which carried the theme “ The Urologist as a Collector,” surprising many of those who visited with its unique topic.

“It is interesting to see that doctors themselves, in this case, urologists are...

Lecouvet wins ESUI Vision Award

Tuesday, 19 March 2013- Frederic Lecouvet won the 2013 Vision Award annually granted by the EAU Section of Urological Imaging (ESUI) since 2011.

As part of ESUI’s aims to highlight the most innovative imaging study published in urology during the last year, Lecouvet, of the Department of...

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Post-graduate courses from the ESU at the 28th Annual EAU Congress

Monday, 18 February 2013- The European School of Urology (ESU) organises a comprehensive post-graduate education programme during every annual congress of the European Association of Urology (EAU), and we are proud to continue this service keeping in mind the challenges and developments that make...

Programme app for 27th Annual EAU Congress available for download

Tuesday, 14 February 2012- The iPhone App Store and Android Market feature the EAU Congress application (app), and congress participants are encouraged to download the application as it provides a handy and more convenient way to track events during the five-day meeting.

To be held from February...