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Radiation Therapy An Effective Solution For Recurrent Prostate Cancer

...urns . Researchers studied more than 500 men with prostate cancer. All the men in the study first had a radic...istant organs, and 4 percent of patients died from prostate cancer during the study. Researchers say these results show radiation after surgery could prevent pr...

Two drugs Mays Be Better Than One For Prostate Enlargement

... 60 suffer from a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate called BPH. BPH causes // lower urinary tract symp... also known as finasteride, can reduce the risk of prostate cancer in some men....

Soaking In The Sun May Give You More Than Just a Tan

...how that several kinds of cancer, including colon, prostate and breast, are less frequent in southern areas, suggesting that sunlight may protect against them....

Men Who at Risk Of Developing Prostate Cancer

Men who have a brother with prostate cancer are twice as likely to develop the disease ...urrently taking vitamins or supplements to prevent prostate cancer.The first study shows more than half of the 111 men surveyed were concerned about developing ...

Gonorrhea Found To Increase Cancer Risk

...exual // partners, may be at an increased risk for prostate cancer, according to new research. Researchers bel...esearchers studied more than 700 black men without prostate cancer and about 130 black men with prostate cancer. Participants were asked about their sexual hist...

Early Detection of Prostate Cancer

...hey now think they have discovered a way to detect prostate cancer earlier and more accurately. A protein called the early // prostate cancer antigen, or EPCA can indicate the earliest changes that occur in cells during the development...

New Technique For Benign Breast Tumors

...on. This technique is also used to freeze liver, prostate and kidney tumors, and researchers are now testing its feasibility on breast tumors that are cancerous....

Hope For Patients With Prostate Cancer

...e combination treatment for patients with advanced prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the second leading caus... Society, there will be about 230,900 new cases of prostate cancer diagnosed this year. The combination therapy consists of Taxotere (docetaxel) and prednison...

Effectiveness Of Prostate Cancer Test

The prostate specific antigen level is a marker to help determine if a man has prostate cancer. Researchers conducted a study to determine //the prevalence of men with prostate cancer who ...

The Benefits Of Soy

... been found to be beneficial for breast cancer and prostate cancer, researchers conducted a study to determine if soy is beneficial for endometrial cancer. Endometrial cancer is cancer affecting the lining of the uterus. Researchers interviewed 832 women who were diagnosed with endometrial cancer and 846 hea...

Hope For Patients With Prostate Cancer

...ght help extend the survival for men with advanced prostate cancer.In one study, researchers studied more // than 600 men with hormone-refractory prostate cancer. About half of the men were treated with the drug combination docetaxel and estramustine whil...

Treatment For Prostate Cancer Found To Increases Fracture Risk

...ns, are produced mostly in the testicles and cause prostate cancer cells to grow. Lowering androgen levels can make prostate cancer // shrink or grow more slowly. However, hormone therapy will not cure the cancer and is often...

Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Tolerated Well by Elderly Patients

...University of Pittsburgh Medical Center treated 33 prostate cancer patients, over age 80, with external beam r... years. Of these patients, five had no evidence of prostate cancer, four had their disease progress, and five had an unknown disease status. Researchers say no...

Reducing The Rate Of Infections

... is more than // those who die from breast cancer, prostate cancer and skin cancer, combined. Each year, about 2 million Americans develop a potentially fatal infection during a hospital stay. Many of those infections are developing a strong resistance to the antibiotics used to treat them, leaving few effec...

Preventing Prostate Cancer

...inasteride -- will make a difference in preventing prostate cancer. In smaller doses, it’s commonly known as P... more active form of the hormone. It is known that prostate cancer is a hormone-dependent cancer. DHT is more active and more potent in prostate cancer developm...

Minimizing the Effects Of Cancer Treatment

...e greatest number of side effects while those with prostate cancer expected the least. <br.Researchers say these results would help them to identify, before treatment begins, a group of people for whom extra attention in terms of side effect management and informational preparation may be required....

Lycopene Can Help In Preventing Prostate Cancer

...ked at for preventing and treating cancers such as prostate cancer. In a recent study Dr.Kumar, Ph.D., R.D., D...Fla. found that lycopene can reduce cell growth of prostate cancer and results can be seen within six week. A patient called Lofgren was diagnosed with prosta...

The Benefits Of Dual Therapy for Patients With Prostate Cancer

...udy estimates that nearly 30,000 men will die from prostate cancer this year. However, a new study offers hope...erapy has been shown to improve survival rates for prostate cancer patients. However, long-term AST can result in impairment of memory and attention, anemia, pr...

Effective Screening Required to Rule out Prostate Cancer

...rrently, doctors rely on a digital rectal exam and prostate specific antigen (PSA) when a man undergoes a prostate cancer screening.//But doctors say there are other risk factors that could play a role. Researchers ...

Prevention Of Prostate Cancer

...inasteride -- will make a difference in preventing prostate cancer. In smaller doses, it’s commonly known as P... more active form of the hormone. It is known that prostate cancer is a hormone-dependent cancer. DHT is more active and more potent in prostate cancer developm...

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