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Drinking Moderately or More Ups Men's Cancer Risk

... esophageal, colon, stomach, liver, lung and prostate cancers." "And we also found that ... those ... raises the risk for developing aggressive prostate cancer in men while undermining the effectiveness of the popular prostate cancer prevention drug finasteride (Proscar). ...

Bellicum Pharmaceuticals Announces Initiation of Phase I/II Clinical Trial of Novel Vaccine for Patients With Advanced Prostate Cancer

... dendritic cell vaccine for the treatment of prostate cancer. The disease-specific trial is being ... minimum of 24 patients with androgen independent prostate cancer (also known as castrate resistant prostate cancer or CRPC). Six doses will be administered ...

Ferring Pharmaceuticals Announces Trade Name FIRMAGON(R) (degarelix for injection) for Advanced Prostate Cancer Treatment

... FIRMAGON(R) (degarelix for injection) for its prostate cancer treatment previously marketed under the ... antagonist indicated for patients with advanced prostate cancer. Since initial market introduction under ... used by more than 3,000 patients to fight their prostate cancer. "This treatment was in ...

US HIFU Secures $5 Million Financing From MMV Financial

... and focal therapy, for the treatment of prostate cancer. The company looks forward to expanding ... therapy, where only the cancerous part of the prostate is removed instead of the whole gland. Studies ... invasive treatments and a paradigm shift in how prostate cancer is being managed internationally. ...

LSUHSC contributes to revealing targets to reduce racial disparity in prostate cancer deaths

... latest findings of the North Carolina-Louisiana prostate Cancer Project reveal potential new targets for reducing racial disparities in prostate cancer survival and highlight the importance of ... and Caucasian men which result in advanced prostate cancer at the time of diagnosis and contribute to ...

MEK4, genistein and invasion of human prostate cancer cells

... the target for genistein, a dietary compound, in prostate cancer cells, according to a new study published ... investigated the target for genistein in prostate cancer cells by assessing cell invasion and gene ... increased MMP-2 expression and cell invasion in prostate cancer cells; decreased MEK4 expression had the ...

Surveyed Oncologists Expect to Prescribe Provenge to about Half of Their Prostate Cancer Patients if the Vaccine is Approved

... with asymptomatic hormone refractory metastatic prostate cancer. Due to the side effects associated with ... Attitudes Toward Emerging Cancer Vaccines for prostate Cancer, Lung Cancer, and Glioma finds that ... Provenge a major breakthrough in the treatment of prostate cancer. Additionally, 89 percent of surveyed ...

Men Who Have Prostate Cancer Surgery Do Well

... -- A major study has good news for men who have prostate cancer surgery but leaves unanswered the ... prostatectomy -- surgical removal of a cancerous prostate gland -- between 1987 and 2005 found that only 12 ... "Patients with what we thought of as high-risk prostate cancer had a much lower risk of dying of their ...

Most Not Worried by Delayed Prostate Cancer Therapy

... News) -- Men who delay treatment for their early prostate cancer are not especially anxious about living ... the assumption that living with untreated prostate cancer is nerve-wracking for most patients, ... tests and other screening exams are uncovering prostate cancer at increasingly earlier stages. Many ...

Driven by Launch of Emerging Therapies, Overall Prostate Cancer Drug Market Will Increase by $2 Billion Through 2018

... Therapies to Treat Metastatic Hormone-Refractory prostate Cancer Will Capture More Than One-Third of the ... issues, finds that $2 billion growth in the prostate cancer drug market though 2018 will be driven ... The new Pharmacor report entitled prostate Cancer finds that therapies in the metastatic ...

Study finds acceptable levels of anxiety among men living with early, untreated prostate cancer

... Men with early stages of prostate cancer who delay radical treatment in favor of an ... is not upsetting for many patients with early prostate cancer. The rapid increase in the use of screening using prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing has led to a large ...

Brookhaven Lab and Hybridyne Imaging Technologies Inc., win R&D 100 award

... gamma camera for high-resolution imaging of prostate cancer. The camera system, called ProxiScan, is a ... instrument that can localize cancer tissue in the prostate gland in detail at an early stage, which is ... on this award." The common way to diagnose prostate cancer the second leading cancer among men, next ...

Scientists discover key event in prostate cancer progression

... reveals how late-stage, hormone-independent prostate tumors gain the ability to grow without need of ... an advanced and currently incurable stage of prostate cancer. The study, published in the July 24, ... molecules located in the nucleus of cells of the prostate gland and other tissues. Male sex hormones ...

Innovative Prostate Cancer Treatment Known as Sonablate(R) HIFU Now Available at Third Site in India

... Sonablate((R)) HIFU services for the treatment of prostate cancer in New Delhi's Rajiv Gandhi Cancer ... for those who are suffering from carcinoma prostate as there is no immediate morbidity which is ... that offer Sonablate HIFU to men with localized prostate cancer. The first Sonablate HIFU services in ...

Combination Therapy Best for Aggressive Prostate Cancer

... July 13 (HealthDay News) -- Men with aggressive prostate cancer who have brachytherapy alone are more ... undergo brachytherapy alone for their high-risk prostate cancer, the evidence supporting this treatment ... get the highest cure rate for men with high-risk prostate cancer, it appears that five weeks of external ...

Watson Pharmaceuticals Receives a Complete Response Letter for Its 24-Week Formulation of TRELSTAR(R) (triptorelin pamoate) NDA from US FDA

... for the palliative treatment of advanced prostate cancer. The TRELSTAR(R) NDA was prepared in ... builds on Watson's long-standing track record in prostate cancer and expanding urology franchise. The new, ... production of testosterone in men with advanced prostate cancer for 24 weeks. TRELSTAR(R) is an already ...

Heavy Drinking Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer

... beer, increases the risk for highly aggressive prostate cancer, a new study finds. The researchers did ... to determine the effect of alcohol consumption on prostate cancer risk but rather to test the effectiveness ... (Proscar, Propecia), a drug prescribed to prevent prostate cancer. And they found that heavy drinking ...

News from Cancer

... DAILY DRINKING INCREASES RISK OF HIGH-GRADE prostate CANCER; MAKES PREVENTIVE DRUG INEFFECTIVE ... the relationship between alcohol consumption and prostate cancer risk. Researchers led by Zhihong Gong ... pattern with risks of total, low- and high-grade prostate cancer. They used data from more than 10,000 men ...

Prostate Drug Appears Safer Than Thought

... the drug finasteride to men at risk for prostate cancer, a new study suggests. Physicians face ... to use the drug, which has been shown to prevent prostate cancer in about one in five men who take it. However, findings from the prostate Cancer Prevention Trial published in 2003 ...

'Comparative Effectiveness' Research Addresses Options for Treating Prostate Cancer

... Says Bioidentical Testosterone Can Promote prostate Health Jacksonville, ... should be regarded as the treatment-of-choice for prostate cancer: "What's best for early stage prostate cancer - various surgeries, different types of ...

Cancer Gap Between Whites, Blacks May Be Biological in Part

... black Americans with breast, ovarian and prostate cancer tend to die earlier than patients of other ... But this is not the case for breast, ovarian and prostate cancers," study author Dr. Kathy Albain, a breast ... cancer patients to a 21 percent higher risk for prostate cancer patients. Ruling out quality of care ...

Purdue researchers create prostate cancer 'homing device' for drug delivery

... WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A new prostate cancer "homing device" could improve detection ... synthesized a molecule that finds and penetrates prostate cancer cells and has created imaging agents and ... an optical imaging application used to measure prostate cancer cells in blood samples is already in ...

Prostate cancer patients disease free after 5 years likely to be disease free after 10 years

... prostate cancer patients who receive brachytherapy and ... Oncology and Urology in New York followed 742 prostate cancer patients who were treated with ... developed metastatic disease or died from prostate cancer. "Our data have indicated that ...

Prostate cancer patients disease free after five years likely to be disease free after 10 years

... prostate cancer patients who receive brachytherapy and ... Oncology and Urology in New York followed 742 prostate cancer patients who were treated with ... developed metastatic disease or died from prostate cancer. "Our data have indicated that ...

Predicting the return of prostate cancer: New Johns Hopkins study betters the odds of success

... experts at Johns Hopkins say a study tracking 774 prostate cancer patients for a median of eight years has ... to double, Gleason score (a numeric indicator of prostate cancer aggressiveness as seen under the ... and the interval between surgical removal of the prostate and the first detectable PSA level. According to ...

Prostate screening studies reviewed in European Urology July issue

... the European Randomised Study of Screening for prostate Cancer (ERSPC) with the results from the ... that the price to pay for 20% reduction in prostate cancer deaths is high; overdiagnosis and ... of interest in this issue is "Testosterone and prostate Cancer: Revisiting Old Paradigms" by H. Isbarn et ...

Misonix Announces Participation in 2nd International Workshop on Focal Therapy

... Workshop on Focal Therapy and Imaging in prostate and Kidney Cancer, which was held in Noordwijk, ... Asia for trans-rectal ablation of tumors of the prostate gland. Characteristics of HIFU, when used for ... outpatient setting, for whole gland ablation of prostate carcinoma, with minimal incidences of urinary ...

New Cancer Drug Fights Tumors in Those With BRCA Mutations

... early clinical trial against breast, ovarian and prostate cancers in individuals who were genetically ... mutations are related to an increased risk for prostate cancer, the British researchers noted. ... the drug shrunk tumors in breast, ovarian and prostate cancer. "Olaparib has few of the adverse ...

AUA Foundation announces 2009 Research Scholar Program award winners

... Trefoil Factor 1 (TFF1) in Castration Resistant prostate Cancer Amit Gupta, MD, MPH, Memorial ... Antigen and Kallikrein 2 (hK2) in prostate Cancer Guang Jia, PhD, The Ohio State ... 0 MRI Study to Detect in Vivo Protein Levels in prostate Cancer HaiHong Jiang, MD, PhD, Cleveland ...

Promising Therapy for Prostate Cancer

... to have helped destroy allegedly inoperable prostate cancer in two patients in a clinical trial. ... ablation, a hormone therapy that helps shrink prostate cancer by eliminating testosterone from the body. ... antigen (PSA) counts, a test used to detect prostate cancer, and were deemed eligible for surgery. ...

US Brachytherapy Market to Reach $1.6 Billion by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

... has emerged as the effective treatment option for prostate cancer patients, who have failed to achieve ... With indications for brachytherapy ranging from prostate cancer, head and neck cancer, cervical cancer, ... attributed to the increasing success rates of prostate brachytherapy, breast brachytherapy, and head and ...

Painkillers May Be Good for the Prostate

... as aspirin and ibuprofen might help men avoid prostate problems. But even so, medical experts are ... of about 50 percent in enlargement of the prostate gland. The condition, called benign prostatic ... not take daily painkillers. Lower levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) also seem to be a benefit ...

Mayo researchers: Dramatic outcomes in prostate cancer study

... Minn. -- Two Mayo Clinic patients whose prostate cancer had been considered inoperable are now ... the aggressive tumors had grown well beyond the prostate into the abdominal areas. "The goal of the ... improve upon current treatments for advanced prostate cancer," says Eugene Kwon, M.D. , Mayo Clinic ...

Green Tea Component May Slow Prostate Cancer

... in green tea might slow the progression of prostate cancer, the results of a small study suggest. ... included 26 men, 41 to 72 years old, who had prostate cancer and were scheduled for radical ... the men's serum levels of markers predictive of prostate cancer progression, including hepatocyte growth ...

Photos: Soccer Hall of Famer Marcelo Balboa Encourages Men to 'Team Up Against Prostate Cancer'

... to Take an Active Role in Protecting their prostate Health NEW YORK, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- ... Balboa's family, but like many others, so does prostate cancer. In 1988, Balboa's grandfather was ... disease. That's why Balboa is joining with the prostate Conditions Education Council (PCEC) and oncology ...

New Prostate Cancer Biomarker Discovered

... 18 (HealthDay News) -- A new marker for advanced prostate cancer and metastasis, or spread, of the disease ... by U.S. researchers. Their analysis of prostate tissue from men with localized prostate cancer revealed that the men had significantly ...

Organization Announces End Prostate Cancer Tour

... ZERO - The Project to End prostate Cancer Brings Awareness Across Country; ... June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Zero prostate cancer deaths. Zero prostate cancer cases and for those ...

Dad Offers Personal Father's Day Message on Importance of Prostate Cancer Screenings

... prostate cancer is more common in men than breast cancer is in women. Joel Stern learned of his prostate cancer through a regular screening, which doctors ... (PRWEB) June 17, 2009 -- Because his father had prostate cancer , Joel Stern of Kildeer, Ill., knew he was ...

New approach for treating recurrent prostate cancer on the horizon

... a component of proteinis effective for treating prostate cancer in mice, according to researchers at SNM's ... result in a significant breakthrough in prostate cancer treatment, especially for patients whose cancer recurs after the prostate is removed. "Our study shows that this novel ...

Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance Protocol Clinical Trial Conducted by NorthShore University HealthSystem

... prostate Cancer Patients See Benefit to Program ... Evanston, IL (Vocus) June 15, 2009 -- prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer ... a man in the United States is diagnosed with prostate cancer, and every 20 minutes a man dies from the ...
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