The 23rd Congress of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO)
...ts that will dramatically improve the treatment of prostate cancer. The results of a major European trial demo...t radiotherapy given after surgical removal of the prostate substantially improves survival will be presented. The remarkable results from a European-American...Study explores treatment for urinary incontinence among prostate cancer surgery patients
...e exercise for men with urinary incontinence after prostate cancer surgery. The study will focus on determinin...n resident. "They have been through the trauma of prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment. With the loss of the prostate gland many men also face bladder contr...Study in male smokers continues to provide clues into the causes and prevention of multiple cancers
...ch, may provide new information into the causes of prostate cancer and the prevention of stomach cancer. ...een men's height and their risk level for advanced prostate cancer. In the second study, researchers present critical evidence of the impact of fruit, vegetabl...M. D. Anderson receives SPORE grant for melanoma research
...ded in 1999. In 2001, M. D. Anderson received both prostate and bladder SPORE grants, totaling $13.3 million and $13.9 million respectively, and making it the first institution to hold two such genitourinary cancer grants. In 2002, the institution received a $12 million grant for head and neck cancer research...Blacks report better sexual, urinary function after prostate surgery than whites
LOS ANGELES (Oct. 13)-Five years after surgery for prostate cancer, African-American men reported better sexua...nstitute-supported study encompassing nearly 3,500 prostate cancer patients, in the Oct. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The study is one of the n...New system translates improved diagnostic information to target radiation at tumors
...g on radiation treatment planning optimization for prostate and other forms of cancer, Lee has used the new sy...resonance spectroscopy can identify regions of the prostate that have denser populations of tumor cells. Combined with data on healthy structures in the prosta...Doctors and patients call on politicians to save lives of cancer patients
...eaking on behalf of more than 15,000 patients with prostate cancer, Mr. Ligensa claimed that it was "disgraceful that treatment of prostate cancer is currently a low priority for European governments. Many patients do not have access to mod...Men with advanced, incurable prostate cancer can benefit from docetaxel
...researcher shows that men with advanced, incurable prostate cancer can survive an average of three months long...ace less symptoms when offered a new treatment for prostate cancer. Published in tomorrow's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, the study involved 24...$25 million funds health promotion studies at UT School of Public Health
...nicating about flu vaccinations and colorectal and prostate cancer screenings. "During the past 17 years our g...rs also plan to study the effectiveness of on-line prostate cancer screening. "In addition to these projects, we will also fund community projects for our commu...Scientists begin validation study of test to detect recurrence of bladder cancer
...rkers in blood serum to detect early tumors of the prostate and liver....A glass of red wine a day may keep prostate cancer away
... a glass of red wine a day may cut a man's risk of prostate cancer in half, and the protective effect appears ...glasses of red wine per week reduced their risk of prostate cancer by 50 percent," Stanford said. "Among men who consumed four or more 4-ounce glasses of red wi...Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers identify novel target for detecting ovarian cancer in blood
...colleagues have demonstrated the ability to detect prostate and kidney cancer by targeting hypermethylation....'Hedgehog' signal distinguishes lethal from localized prostate cancers
...ed a possible way to distinguish lethal metastatic prostate cancers from those restricted to the walnut-size o...aling pathway called Hedgehog -- can predict which prostate cancers will spread, the results could revolutionize decision making processes for prostate cancer p...NJIT business incubator helps start-up companies move out of the lab and into the marketplace
...ltiple sclerosis. Acute problems can develop after prostate gland surgery or damage to the urethra. Most patients coping with urine retention of this nature have to rely on an indwelling catheter connected to a urine collection bag or insertion of an intermittent catheter several times each day. Urovalve h...New compounds show promise in fighting malaria and cancer
...gold standard for chemotherapy of both malaria and prostate cancer," said Gary Posner, Scowe Professor of Chem...Johns Hopkins trioxanes in rodent models for human prostate cancer in collaboration with the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., was equally encour...Two landmark studies show Taxotere (R) significantly improves survival in men with prostate cancer
...drogen-independent (hormone-refractory) metastatic prostate cancer have been presented at the plenary session ...drogen-independent (hormone-refractory) metastatic prostate cancer patients, giving hope to thousands of men worldwide," said Daniel Petrylak, MD, Associate Pro...When it comes to cancer prognosis, it's not just the tumor that matters
... useful in more treatable types of tumors, like in prostate and breast cancer, and less helpful in sites that have very poor chances of survival, like lung cancer. "The bottom line is that comorbidity data provides critical additional information for determining a patient's prognosis," Piccirillo says. He be...Quality patient care not met by blanket screenings, warns UCSF/SFVAMC physician
... said, the dire health of patients with metastatic prostate cancer and end-stage renal failure increases the risks of colorectal cancer screening, which include perforation of the colon and cardiac complications. In her view, the decision by the SFVAMC physicians not to screen such patients represented good ...Botox helps ease symptoms of enlarged prostate according to Univ. of Pittsburgh study
... Injections of botulinum toxin A (botox) into the prostate are a promising alternative treatment for the mill...4 in the AUA proceedings. "For most men, enlarged prostate is considered to be an uncomfortable inevitability of aging," said Michael Chancellor, M.D., profess...Quality of life continues to change long-term after treatment for prostate cancer
...our to eight years after men undergo treatment for prostate cancer, they continue to see changes both positiv...le previous research has documented the effects of prostate cancer treatment on quality of life two years after treatment occurs, this is the first study to loo...