Failure of PSA Levels To Fall In Prostate Cancer Patients May Lead To Poor Outcomes
Many men with relapsed prostate cancer will still have a median survival of more than a decade after being given hormonal treatment.
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Does Lycopene Reduce The Risk of Prostate Cancer?
Men who eat plenty of tomato products, especially tomato sauce laden foods, have a lower risk of prostate cancer.
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Researchers Identify New Blood Test for Prostate Cancer
Research identified a panel of 22 biomarkers that together more accurately predicted prostate cancer than the PSA test.
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Protein Signatures for Prostate Cancer That Could Improve Diagnosis of Early Disease
Testing blood samples for antibodies that target prostate cancer cells may help identify patients with early stages of the disease.
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Prostate Cancer Screening: What's The Use?
Prostate cancer screening usually means a blood test for prostate specific antigen (PSA) and might include a digital rectal examination (DRE) of the prostate.
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Mutation May Raise Prostate Cancer Risk in African Americans
Prostate cancer rates are extremely high in African American men. They develop prostate cancer 60 percent more often than do European Americans
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Lifestyle Changes May Slow Prostate Cancer Progression
Low grade prostate cancer may be slowed if men make healthful changes to their diet, physical activity level, and stress management techniques.
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How Prostate Cancer Invades Bone
Prostate cancer often metastasizes to bone forming painful tumors. First step toward finding a way to block the development of metastatic bone tumors in men with prostate cancer.
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Possible Link between Erectile Dysfunction Drugs and Optic Neuropathy
FDA is alerting healthcare practitioners about a possible association between PDE 5 inhibitors used to treat erectile dysfunction, such as Viagra, Levitra and Cialis, and a serious vision disorder.
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High Dose Radiation Reduces Risk of Prostate Cancer Recurrence
When men with clinically localized prostate cancer are treated with high dose radiation therapy, they are more likely to be free from an increasing PSA level.
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Ablatherm(r) HIFU Prostate Cancer Treatment a Safe Alternative
Ablatherm HIFU is a highly precise procedure using high intensity, focused ultrasound to eliminate prostate cancer.
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Prostate Cancer Surgery Is Misleadingly Advertised
The usual prostate cancer operation is called the radical prostatectomy. It makes all men sterile and gives all men sexual dysfunction. The surgery leaves most men with a smaller penis, and there is significant risk of suffering impotence.
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Presence of Activated Stat5 Protein in Prostate Cancer Can Predict Outcome
The findings may offer hope to identify patients who are more likely to have a recurring or life threatening prostate cancer.
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Discovery of ETS Related Gene (erg) Offers Promising Lead in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
Discovery provides a promising addition to a select group of genes, whose expression is frequently altered in prostate cancer cells and could provide novel molecular targets for diagnosis, prognosis or therapy of prostate cancer in the future.
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Vitamin D, NSAIDS Provide Double Whammy Against Prostate Cancer
The growth of prostate cancer cells can be halted by combining a form of vitamin D, available only by prescription, with low doses of an over the counter painkiller.
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Few Benefits, Many Costs Associated with Changing Definition of "Abnormal" PSA Level
Although it is easy to diagnose more prostate cancer, it is not easy to know who has clinically important disease.
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Study Examines Accuracy of PSA Values for Detecting Prostate Cancer
A new study indicates there is no specific PSA value that has both high sensitivity and high specificity for monitoring healthy men for prostate cancer.
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Cause of Diabetes-Related Erectile Dysfunction is Clarified
A new study suggests an over supply of a simple blood sugar could be a major cause of erectile dysfunction in diabetic men.
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Research on Bicycle Saddles and Sexual Health Comes of Age in The Journal of Sexual Medicine
While there may be an association between erectile dysfunction and bicycle riding, not all men who ride bicycles will develop erectile dysfunction.
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PSA Kinetics and Risk of Death From Prostate Cancer
Given recent randomized trials reporting significant improvement in survival with chemotherapy for patients with hormone refractory prostate cancer, a number of important questions persist.
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Prostate Cancer Death and Radiation Therapy
Rate of increase in PSA value Prior to diagnosis of Prostate Cancer predicts risk of death following Radiation Therapy.
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Prostate Cancer Death
Clinical factors can help determine risk of prostate cancer death following 'biochemical' cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomy.
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Men In Denial Over Expanding Waistlines
The survey shows that men are not heeding health warnings to maintain a healthy body weight.
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Fertility Boost for Testicular Cancer Patients
The vast majority of men who try to have a family, following treatment for testicular cancer, are able to father children.
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Men's Health and Circumcision
UNAIDS statement on South African trial findings regarding men's health, circumcision and HIV.
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Lifestyle and Diet May Stop or Reverse Prostate Cancer Progression
Men with early stage prostate cancer who make intensive changes in diet and lifestyle may stop or perhaps even reverse the progression of their illness, according to a new study.
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Change Your Diet To Cut Risk of Prostate Cancer
In Canada, prostate cancer is the most common cancer threat to men.
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Erectile Dysfunction and Obesity: Another Sad Story, Same Happy Ending
90 percent of erectile dysfunction is physical in origin, not psychological. Nearly 80 percent of men who reported having erectile dysfunction were also overweight or obese.
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Combination Hormone/Vaccine Therapy for Prostate Cancer May Benefit Patients Whose Disease Returns
Study finds that a cancer vaccine combined with hormone deprivation therapy can help patients with recurrence of prostate cancer.
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Enlarged Prostate Drug Allows for Less Invasive Prostate Biopsies
A drug that is currently used to treat an enlarged prostate may improve the accuracy of prostate biopsies, a pilot study shows.
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Early Prostate Cancer Screening May Reduce Mortality Rate by 35%
Early screening of prostate cancer in asymptomatic men may reduce their risk of death from metastatic prostate cancer by as much as 35 per cent.
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Presence OF High-Risk Prostate Cancer Can Be Predicted Without A Biopsy
Identifying high risk prostate cancer means more prudent treatment decisions, fewer unnecessary biopsies.
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Vitamin D, Taxotere Combination Promising For Advanced Prostate Cancer
The study determines if this combination should be developed as a treatment for advanced prostate cancer.
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FDA Updates Labeling for Viagra, Cialis and Levitra for Rare Post-Marketing Reports of Eye Problems
At this time, it is not possible to determine whether these oral medicines for erectile dysfunction were the cause of the loss of eyesight.
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The Power of Erectile Dysfunction Drug Advertising Challenges the Hippocratic Oath
Vacuum therapy is the least invasive treatment for erectile dysfunction.
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Erectile Dysfunction Common Among Men With Heart Disease
Erectile dysfunction can be a sign that someone has heart disease.
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Erectile Dysfunction Drug Amendment Passage Puts Lives at Risk
If a patient is faced with the risk of impotence due to treatment from prostate cancer, and erectile dysfunction drugs are not covered, he may decide for less than optimal cancer treatment.
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Imaging Tool Helps Locate Sites of Early Recurrent Prostate Cancer
A diagnostic scan may help localize recurrent prostate disease in men who have had surgical removal of the prostate and show early signs of recurrence.
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Vascular Disease Most Common Cause of Male Erectile Dysfunction
Patients with erectile dysfunction (ED) and heart problems can now safely use erection drugs that help up to 80% of men restore function and quality of life, report.
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Prostate Cancer Study Affirms Value of PSA Test
PSA remains a vital tool for determining risk of recurrence in prostate cancer patients.
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