Prostate Cancer Treatment Poses Bone Risk -Study
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An increasingly popular prostate cancer treatment also makes bones brittle and may be responsible for over 3,000 fractures each year in the United States, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Men with long-term diabetes may  have a reduced risk of prostate cancer, according to the  results of a study published in the American Journal of  Epidemiology.
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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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Men with prostate cancer who have to wait up to three months after diagnosis to receive external-beam radiation therapy don&#39;t have worse outcomes than men who start treatment
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TREATING prostate cancer with a combination of radiation and hormone therapy could cut the death rate from the disease by half.
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A new study finds that men with early prostate cancer are strongly influenced by the type of specialists they consult. Deciding on a treatment.
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NEW YORK  - Obese men who undergo surgery for prostate cancer are more likely than their non-obese peers to experience a rise in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, a sign that their disease is returning, new research suggests.
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Some men with prostate cancer that hasn't spread may not need to undergo treatment, as long as a watchful eye is kept on their condition. They can do as well as similar men who undergo radiation therapy, according to a new report.
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Patients treated with widely used osteoporosis drugs may develop severe and sometimes disabling muscle, joint and bone pain, U.S. officials said on Monday in an alert highlighting the previously known risk.
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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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Obese men who undergo surgery for prostate cancer are more likely than their non-obese peers to experience a rise in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, a sign that their disease is returning, new research suggests. Moreover, this seems to be true even in cases in which all of the cancer was apparently removed at surgery.
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Radiation therapy is effective for prostate cancer, but up to 90 percent of men will develop impotence after the treatment. New research indicates that this frustrating side effect may be avoided if both MRI and CT, rather than just CT, are used to plan exactly how and where radiation will be delivered.
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Men who take Avodart (dutasteride) to treat an enlarged prostate apparently have a reduced risk for developing prostate cancer, a new study indicates.
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A small study of female-to-male transsexuals shows that testosterone therapy at "male" dosages significantly increases bone mineral density.
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Men in their 70s and older who are diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer can safely "watch and wait" because they are not likely to die of it, researchers confirmed on Wednesday.
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SUNDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Men diagnosed with prostate cancer in the summer and fall have a better chance of survival than those diagnosed in the spring and winter, a new study of Norwegian men suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Survival rates for men with localized prostate cancer are better with either surgery or radioactive seed implantation, a treatment called brachytherapy, compared with no "definitive" treatment, investigators at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City report. This is true even among older men.