Experts Call for Team Approach to Prostate Cancer
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Doctors need to develop a more organized team approach to prostate cancer, with a clear outline on how to screen for the disease and to
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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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NEW YORK  - Chronic inflammation of the  prostate can lead to constant pain that is hard to treat, but a  new approach seems to hold out promise.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- A new report calls for the urgent need to improve treatments and find a cure for prostate cancer, a disease that strikes one in six American men.
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Two prominent expertsâ public stance against the drug, Provenge, has angered some men with prostate cancer and patient advocates.
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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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Scientists have identified a way of tackling hard-to-treat breast cancers.
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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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NEW YORK  - The mortality rates for most  men diagnosed with prostate cancer in the United States are no  higher than those in the general population, a new analysis  shows. "The bottom line is that most men diagnosed with the  disease today can expect to live as long as, or longer than,  men their age without the disease," two editorialists comment.
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Scientists have found a new way to  identify a particularly deadly form of prostate cancer in a  breakthrough that could save tens of thousands of men from  undergoing unnecessary surgery each year.
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THURSDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Physicians may soon be able to identify which men have a more deadly form of prostate cancer, U.S. researchers report.
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Experts increasingly believe the PSA test leads to needless treatment such as radiotherapy, when men could be monitored and live with the cancer without it ever causing a problem.
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OTTAWA - Thousands of men undergo unnecessary prostate surgery to remove possibly non-threatening cancer, says Dr. Thomas Stamey, a professor of urology at Stanford University.
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NEW YORK  - High rates of tumor control over the long term are possible with combination treatment using external beam radiation followed by brachytherapy in high-risk prostate cancer patients, according to researchers.
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Genes associated with prostate cancer have been discovered, which could be used to spot future sufferers.
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TUESDAY, Aug. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Being screened for prostate cancer more often does improve disease detection overall, but it doesn&#39;t help doctors spot aggressive cancers better, a new study finds.
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ROCKVILLE, Maryland  - Cancer patients and others rallied outside the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to call for the approval of an experimental prostate cancer therapy and wider access to unapproved drugs.