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Dec 16th, 2008
With the widespread adoption of PSA screening to detect prostate cancer, the disease is more often diagnosed in American men at an early stage, before it has spread beyond the prostate. But low-income men still are not benefiting from that trend.
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Dec 16th, 2008
Adding radiation to drug treatment improves survival, yields fewer signs of relapse than drugs alone in men with dangerous form of prostate cancer.
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Dec 16th, 2008
Low-income men are more likely to present with advanced prostate cancers, most likely because they don't receive screening services shown to reduce the diagnosis of later-stage cancers.
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Dec 16th, 2008
Forty percent of men with prostate cancer may not even know they have it.
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Dec 11th, 2008
Although the link between early screening and prostate cancer survival is well established, men are less likely to go for early screening unless they have a wife or significant other living with them.
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Nov 25th, 2008
There is a new breakthrough in search for prostate cancer treatment. University of Southern California researchers have found a way to halt the spread of prostate cancer. Suppression of the GRP78 protein, a genetic biomarker of aggressive prostate cancer, leads researchers to what they consider a "breakthrough" in cancer research.
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Nov 7th, 2008
Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in men in the United States and 1 in 6 men will receive this diagnosis in their lifetime. The Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test was approved by the FDA as a screening test for prostate cancer in 1986 and its use has increased since that time. Most male patients are aware of this prostate cancer test and ask for it at their annual exam.
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Oct 28th, 2008
Selenium and vitamin E supplements, taken either alone or together, did not prevent prostate cancer.
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Oct 28th, 2008
Leading radiation oncologists are using the TargetScan Touch system to deliver radioactive seed therapy in the prostate.
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Oct 28th, 2008
Now comes word that the SELECT trial, assembled by the National Cancer Institute to test if selenium prevents prostate cancer, is being discontinued. Why? Because it appears that selenium is not preventing prostate cancer.
