Posts Tagged ‘Prostate Cancer’

Nuggets Coach Karl Will Miss Games to Battle Cancer

17th February 2010 by admin No Comments

With his eyes watering and his team standing by his side, Denver Nuggets coach George Karl announced Tuesday night that he is again battling cancer, and he will miss some games and practices during the next six weeks to undergo intense radiation treatment.
Karl has squamous cell carcinoma in his right tonsil that has metastasized to [...]

Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, But How?

27th October 2009 by admin 2 Comments

Call it the arrow of cancer. Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened.

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But as a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted last week, data from more than two decades of screening for breast and prostate cancer call that [...]

Study: New Prostate Cancer Surgery Technique Is More Risky

16th October 2009 by admin No Comments

The risk of losing sexual function and urine control may be greater in men who have prostate cancer surgery designed to reduce blood loss and hospital stays than those having traditional operations, a Harvard researcher reported Tuesday.

The technique, in which surgeons make three or four small cuts in the abdomen, is used in [...]

Doctors Don’t Adequately Discuss Prostate Tests with Patients

29th September 2009 by admin No Comments

Half of men who received a PSA test for prostate cancer were not asked if they wanted it, despite national guidelines recommending that physicians thoroughly discuss the issue with their patients, according to a new telephone survey. More than two-thirds of the men’s doctors, moreover, did not discuss potential adverse effects of the tests, according [...]

Many Prostate Cancers Don’t Need Radical Therapy

29th July 2009 by admin No Comments

Important news for men with prostate cancer: first, the cancer tends to grow so slowly that only a fraction of patients actually die from it.
Second, men with low-grade cancer who opt for close monitoring instead of surgery to remove the prostate do not seem to suffer anxiety and distress from living with ”untreated” cancer.
Those are [...]

Milk Helps Prevent Colon Cancer

7th July 2009 by admin 2 Comments

A little more than a glass of milk a day can reduce the risk of cancer of the colon and rectum, according to the most comprehensive study ever done on the subject.
It is actually a study of studies, with researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women�s Hospital in Boston lumping [...]

Sun Pharma Gets U.S. Nod for Prostate Cancer Drug

7th July 2009 by admin No Comments

India’s Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (SUN.BO) said on Tuesday it had received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to launch generic version of AstraZeneca Plc’s (AZN.L) prostate cancer drug Casodex.

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Veterans Receive Wrong Prostate Cancer Treatment In VA Hospital

24th June 2009 by admin 1 Comment

The VA Medical System has been in the news during the past year due to veterans being exposed to HIV and hepatitis during routine colonoscopy. Several veterans became infected due to the improper sterilization of the instruments used. The hospitals involved were located in Miami, Fla., Murfreesboro, Tenn. (where the problem was first detected), and [...]

Medarex Shares Up As Prostate Cancer Drug Shows Promise

24th June 2009 by admin 2 Comments

Shares of Medarex Inc (MEDX.O) rose as much as 22 percent Monday on a Mayo Clinic report that two prostate cancer patients became cancer-free after being treated with the company’s experimental drug, ipilimumab, in combination with other therapies and surgery.
On Friday, the Mayo Clinic said both patients experienced reduction in levels of a protein called [...]

Green Tea Could Delay Prostate Cancer: U.S. Study

20th June 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Active compounds in green tea may slow down the progression of prostate cancer, researchers reported on Friday.
Capsules made using green tea extracts called polyphenols lowered levels of proteins that tumors use to grow, the researchers found.
Made by Polyphenon Pharma, the capsules called Polyphenon E contain epigallocatechin gallate or EGCG, a green tea extract that has [...]