Treatment Delay for Prostate Cancer Doesn&#39;t Hurt Outcome
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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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New research shows that it's possible to identify men with slowly progressive or latent prostate cancer, reflected by prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels that remain stable or fall over time.
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NEW YORK  - In a study of prostate cancer patients living in California, most Asian men with the disease survived longer than their white counterparts. The exception was men from South Asia; their survival was worse than that of white men.
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Facing a diagnosis of cancer with a "fighting spirit" makes no difference to the final outcome, a study suggests.
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MONDAY, Dec. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Osteoporosis appears to be an often overlooked risk for men with prostate cancer who are having hormone therapy, says a study to be published in the Jan. 15 issue of Cancer.
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NEW YORK  - New research shows that it's  possible to identify men with slowly progressive or latent  prostate cancer, reflected by prostate specific antigen (PSA)  levels that remain stable or fall over time.
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TORONTO -- Doctors can prolong the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer for several months and improve their quality of life with a new-generation drug treatment, a Canadian-led international study has found.
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For men with prostate cancer that recurs after radiation therapy, 'salvage' surgery to remove the prostate can lead to long-term cancer control, New York- based researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - Research has shown that women who undergo chemotherapy after surgery for early-stage breast cancer have an improved chance of survival. Now, investigators have evidence that therapy can be safely delayed for up to 12 weeks - but waiting longer may adversely affect the outcome.
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Elderly men with early prostate cancer live significantly longer if they receive treatment than those who adopt a wait-and-see approach, as commonly recommended, according to a new study.
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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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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.
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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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A large new study is challenging the common practice of recommending that older men forgo treatment for early prostate cancer and instead wait to see whether the malignancy progresses.
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NEW YORK  - New research shows that it&#39;s possible to identify men with slowly progressive or latent prostate cancer, reflected by prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels that remain stable or fall over time.
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Higher-income individuals with prostate cancer feel more informed about the disease and more satisfied with their treatment decisions than do their lower-income peers, new survey findings show.
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NEW YORK  - After undergoing prostate  removal because of localized cancer, African-American men have  better recovery of sexual and urinary function than do  non-Hispanic white men, researchers report.