Prostate cancer treatment 'hope'
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Scientists believe they have found a way to make prostate cancer treatment more effective.
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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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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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British scientists have discovered a new way to improve the effectiveness of drugs used to treat prostate cancer. Researchers at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular
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NEW YORK  - 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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A genetic test which may improve accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer is launched in the UK.
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NEW YORK  - 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  - An analysis of men with early prostate cancer treated at the Cleveland Clinic found that those treated with external beam radiation therapy had poorer overall survival than those treated with radioactive seed implants (brachytherapy) or by surgical removal of the prostate (radical prostatectomy).
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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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Sen. John Kerry's doctors have told him he is cured of the prostate cancer that sidelined him almost two years ago and that there is a slim chance it could recur in the next decade, The New York Times said Sunday in a report based on interviews with the Democratic presidential nominee and several of his physicians.
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Cancer Research UK scientists in Oxford have found a new way to make prostate cancer succumb more readily to currently used treatments.
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Older men with early-stage prostate cancer are not taking a big risk if they keep an eye on the disease instead of treating it right away, suggests the largest study to look at this issue since PSA tests became popular
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WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry&#39;s doctors have told him he is cured of the prostate cancer that sidelined him almost two years ago and that there is a slim chance it could recur in the next decade, The New
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Genes associated with prostate cancer have been discovered, which could be used to spot future sufferers.
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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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A short-term dose of hormone therapy coupled with radiation significantly increases survival for many prostate cancer patients - compared to radiation alone - says a new study by Boston researchers.
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NEW YORK  - A standard treatment for advanced prostate cancer is to suppress testosterone production by removal of the testes.