Prostate cancer test under fire
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OTTAWA -- A pioneer of the PSA prostate cancer test taken by millions of men each year now says the test has virtually no bearing on how much cancer is present.
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FRIDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental prostate cancer vaccine has stopped the progress of the disease in 90 percent of the mice who got it, California researchers report.
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A review of 20 years&#39; worth of tissue samples casts doubt on the value of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer, a new study contends.
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NEW YORK  - Screening for cancer quite  often produces a false-positive result, and this can lead to  costly -- and ultimately unnecessary -- follow-up testing,  according to a new report.
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There is an alarming ignorance about cancer and how to reduce the risk of  the disease, a survey suggests.
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US black men aged 65 and older run twice the risk of dying from prostate cancer than comparable whites, but they are less likely to have a common blood test to detect the disease, a study said on Monday.
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People on HIV drug Viracept are being warned over a possible contamination with cancer-causing chemicals.
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MONDAY, Sept. 27 (HealthDayNews) -- Elderly black men are only 50 percent as likely to get tested for prostate cancer as elderly white men are, says a study in the current issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Scientists believe they have found a way to make prostate cancer treatment more effective.
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Elderly black men are only 50 percent as likely to get tested for prostate cancer as elderly white men are, says a study in the current issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine (news - web sites).
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A fighting prostate cancer protests at the Senedd to call for a radiation treatment to be made funded in Wales.
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And while one in six men will get the disease during his lifetime, only one in 32 will die from it. The death rate for prostate cancer is declining, cancer experts note, due to developments that range from
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FRIDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDayNews) -- A review of 20 years' worth of tissue samples casts doubt on the value of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer, a new study contends.
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A genetic test which may improve accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer is launched in the UK.
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NEW YORK  - Working in a job that requires a continuous level of high physical effort may decrease the likelihood of a man developing prostate cancer, researchers report.
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A new study suggests a man's weight may affect the accuracy of a common test to detect prostate cancer, leading researchers to warn that doctors could be missing the dangerous cancer in obese men.
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A single prostate cancer screening test before age 50 can help predict which men might develop aggressive forms of the disease, even 25 years before a diagnosis, researchers said on Friday.