New Test May Reduce Need For Some Prostate Cancer Biopsies
...trials, the new test shouldonly apply to men whose prostates feel normal on digital rectal exams, but whosestandard PSA levels are elevated and between four and 10. "These are the men inthe diagnostic gray zone. They're at risk for prostate cancer on the basis ofthe PSA levels, but experience shows that 75 per...Not all enlarged prostates are the same, say University of Pittsburgh researchers
...were clearly distinguishable from one another. The prostates of the group of men with symptomatic BPH were most similar to the BPH areas of the individuals with prostate cancer. This relationship may indicate the presence of a potential link between BPH and prostate cancer that has not been previously identifi...Study evaluates biology of prostate cancer progression in African-American men
... African-American patients who had their cancerous prostates removed, Pettaway and his colleagues found that the ratio of MMP to E-cadherin accurately predicted which cancers had spread beyond the organ and which had not. A lot of MMP and little E-cadherin suggested the cancer had become invasive, where as les...Scientists find protein that controls prostate cancer's spread
...ith prostate cancer who had agreed to donate their prostates after death. The men were autopsied within hours of their deaths, yielding tissue samples that still contained the fragile messenger RNA and protein molecules that can degrade quickly after death. RKIP was detected at high levels in all 10 samples of...Development of prostate drug based on UT Southwestern research
...lpha reductase deficiency - did not develop normal prostates or prostatic enlargement. He theorized at the time that reproducing this condition artificially may lead to nonsurgical treatment of an enlarged prostate. He later identified the genes that encode for 5-alpha reductase. Dr. David Russell, a UT Southw...Soy consumption could help prevent prostate cancer and male pattern baldness
... When investigators injected DHT into rats, their prostates grew. When they gave rats equol, nothing happened at all. When they injected rats with both equol and DHT, the equol prevented the DHT from functioning as it normally would as a stimulator of prostate growth. In other words, equol did not change ...New discovery could provide tool to detect whether a cancer will develop and spread
...haracteristic of metastasis in normal tissues from prostates with metastazing tumors. The finding suggests that the potential for metastasis can be detected early in apparently normal tissues. The study, which appears online this week, will be published in the August 3rd issue of the Proceedings of the Natio...U-M scientists find common virus in human prostate tissue
...prostate tissue from men with adenocarcinoma whose prostates were surgically removed to prevent the spread of cancer. Tissue samples were obtained from the Tissue Procurement Core at the U-M's Comprehensive Cancer Center. Samples contained benign, pre-cancerous and cancerous tissue. Using new TAg-spec...Lycopene slows human prostate tumour growth in mice and combined with vitamin E is even better
...nd vitamin E were effectively taken up in the mice prostates in the same form as they are in humans, said Dr. Limpens. Dr. Limpens said the findings seem promising, but it was early days yet and the Phase II trial in Germany was designed to verify whether a similar treatment to that used in the mice could alt...