Short Course of Hormone Therapy Boosts Odds With Prostate Cancer
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TUESDAY, Aug. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- Adding only six months of follow-up hormone therapy to radiation treatment for prostate cancer saves as many lives as three years of the hormone regimen does, researchers report.
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A drug used to treat advanced breast and  lung cancers has been found to prolong the lives of men with  advanced prostate cancer whose tumors don't respond to hormone  therapy, according to two studies published on Wednesday.
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Hormone therapy used to treat   prostate cancer that has already spread may save patients from   cancer but raise the risk of diabetes and heart disease, U.S.   researchers reported on Tuesday.
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British scientists have discovered a new  way to improve the effectiveness of drugs used to treat  prostate cancer.
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British scientists have discovered a new way to improve the effectiveness of drugs used to treat prostate cancer. Researchers at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular
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Common genetic variants raise a man's risk of prostate cancer  -  especially in combination with family history
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An analysis of men with early  prostate cancer treated at the Cleveland Clinic found that  those treated with external beam radiation therapy had poorer  overall survival than those treated with radioactive seed  implants (brachytherapy) or by surgical removal of the prostate  (radical prostatectomy).
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Treating prostate cancer patients with female hormone therapy reduces the side effects of treatment, doctors believe.
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NEW YORK  - After being diagnosed with  prostate cancer, men are capable of adhering to a low-fat diet  for at least a year if they receive good counseling and  support, a new study shows.
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Scientists have taken a key step toward revealing the causes of prostate cancer, finding that a combination of five gene variants dramatically raises the risk of the disease
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Older men with early-stage prostate cancer are not taking a big risk if they keep an eye on the disease instead of treating it right away, suggests the largest study to look at this issue since PSA tests became popular
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Men with prostate cancer that does not appear to have spread have better survival chances when they get short-term hormone treatment along with standard radiation.
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MONDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDayNews) -- A new study adds more weight to the cancer risks posed by hormone therapy by finding that the menopausal treatment also makes breast cancer harder to detect.
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Over a 5-year period, men with localized prostate cancer showed a much sharper decline in sexual function and urinary control than did similar men without the disease, researchers report in the medical journal Cancer.
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About a quarter of U.S. women who stopped taking hormone replacement therapy after it was found to raise the risk of heart disease and some cancers have gone back on it, according to a new study.
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The drugs docetaxel and estramustine can increase survival by a few months in men whose prostate cancer has spread to other parts of the body, two new studies find.
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Genes associated with prostate cancer have been discovered, which could be used to spot future sufferers.