New Prostate Cancer Treatment Promising
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Doctors are reporting their first success at improving survival in men with advanced prostate cancer by using a treatment that trains the immune system to fight tumors. The approach is called a cancer vaccine although unlike traditional vaccines, it treats disease rather than prevents it.
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Men with prostate cancer that doesn't appear to have spread have better survival chances when they get short-term hormone treatment along with standard radiation, rather than radiation alone, a small study found.
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An artificial version of the pigment that gives tomatoes their colouring could help treat prostate cancer, say researchers.
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Doctors researching breast cancer say a new drug has had "exciting" results.
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NEW YORK  - Treating or removing just the part of the prostate that is cancerous may be an effective and less invasive approach for a considerable minority of men with early prostate cancer that is confined to the prostate, according to doctors in Durham, North Carolina.
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One in six American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year. It&#39;s a more common disease among men than breast cancer is among women.
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A new type of drug shows growing promise as a more potent way for many breast-cancer patients to significantly cut their risk of recurrence, researchers reported yesterday.
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An experimental vaccine extended the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer in a clinical trial, the therapy&#39;s developer, the Dendreon Corporation, announced yesterday.
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18  (HealthDayNews) -- A new blood test holds promise for improving the treatment of advanced breast cancer, researchers report.
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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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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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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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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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NEW YORK  - New research suggests that two months of "androgen deprivation" therapy, which reduces levels of the androgen, a male hormone, can help slow the growth of locally advanced prostate cancer when given before and during radiotherapy. Plus, the short course of androgen deprivation therapy does not increase the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, which had been a concern.
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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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The results from the new clinical trial could increase the chances that the Food and Drug Administration will approve the drug for that use.
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Men with advanced prostate cancer that is not responding to hormone therapy could benefit from a drug now used to treat breast cancer, say scientists.