Prostate cancer study tracks long-term urinary, sexual and bowel function side effects
A new study comparing outcomes among prostate cancer patients treated with surgery versus radiotherapy found differences in urinary, bowel and sexual function after short-term follow-up, but those differences were no longer ...
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Jan 30, 2013 |
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Eating deep-fried food associated with increased risk of prostate cancer, study finds
Regular consumption of deep-fried foods such as French fries, fried chicken and doughnuts is associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer, and the effect appears to be slightly stronger with regard to more aggressive ...
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Jan 28, 2013 |
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Prostate cancer cells thrive on stress
Not surprisingly, a cancer diagnosis creates stress. And patients with prostate cancer show higher levels of anxiety compared to other cancer patients.
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Jan 25, 2013 |
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Stigma stymies prostate cancer screening, treatment in Ghana
Infectious diseases in Ghana tend to capture the most attention, but a quiet crisis may soon take over as the country's most threatening epidemic: cancer.
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Jan 24, 2013 |
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Personal epigenetic 'signatures' found consistent in prostate cancer patients' metastases
In a genome-wide analysis of 13 metastatic prostate cancers, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center found consistent epigenetic "signatures" across all metastatic tumors in each patient. The discovery of the ...
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Jan 23, 2013 |
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Study shows high blood calcium levels may indicate ovarian cancer
A new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is the first to report that high blood calcium levels might predict of ovarian cancer, the most fatal of the gynecologic cancers.
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Jan 23, 2013 |
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Men at 'high' skeletal risk prior to prostate cancer hormone therapy likely to have more fractures after treatment
In what is believed to be the first study to describe the impact on men with a 'high' risk of bone fracture who are receiving long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer, new research from The Cancer ...
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Jan 23, 2013 |
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Prostate cancer lifetime risk trebles in 25 years
Boys born in 2015 will have almost three times the risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point during their lives than those born in 1990.
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Jan 23, 2013 |
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Follow-up to REDUCE study shows low rate of prostate cancer diagnosis
The four-year REDUCE (REduction by DUtasteride of prostate Cancer Events) clinical study evaluated prostate cancer risk reduction in men taking dutasteride, a 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor (5ARI) typically used to treat enlarged ...
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Jan 22, 2013 |
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Lawyer: Surgeons left 16 items in German after op
A lawyer in Germany claims surgeons left up to 16 objects in her client's body after an operation for prostate cancer.
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Jan 17, 2013 |
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Change in PSA levels over time can help predict aggressive prostate cancer
Measurements taken over time of prostate specific antigen, the most commonly used screening test for prostate cancer in men, improve the accuracy of aggressive prostate cancer detection when compared to a single measurement ...
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Jan 15, 2013 |
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Sickle cells show potential to attack aggressive cancer tumors
By harnessing the very qualities that make sickle cell disease a lethal blood disorder, a research team led by Duke Medicine and Jenomic, a private cancer research company in Carmel, Calif., has developed ...
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Jan 09, 2013 |
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High fiber diet prevents prostate cancer progression
(Medical Xpress)—A high-fiber diet may have the clinical potential to control the progression of prostate cancer in patients diagnosed in early stages of the disease.
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Jan 09, 2013 |
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HPV-associated cancer incidence rates point to needed efforts to increase HPV vaccination coverage
Despite the decline in cancer death rates in the U.S., there is an increase in incidence rates for cancers associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and more efforts are needed to increase HPV vaccination coverage ...
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Jan 07, 2013 |
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Most unaware of out-of-pocket costs for prostate cancer tx
(HealthDay)—Most patients with localized prostate cancer know little about the out-of-pocket expenses (OOPE) of the different treatments, and would not have chosen a different treatment even if they had ...
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Jan 05, 2013 |
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