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Researchers find few side effects from radiation treatment given after prostate cancer surgery
Sep 28, 2009 |
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The largest single-institution study of its kind has found few complications in prostate cancer patients treated with radiotherapy after surgery to remove the prostate. Men in this study received radiotherapy after a prostate-specific ...
Microwave treatments for enlarged prostate cause blood pressure surges
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Many men who receive microwave therapy for enlarged prostates experience significant surges in blood pressure that could raise their risk of a heart attack or stroke, according to new research findings published recently ...
Nanoparticles Delivery of 'Suicide DNA' Kills Prostate Tumors
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 22, 2007 |
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Using nanoparticles developed by members of the Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, a team of investigators at the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, in Philadelphia, has developed a DNA-based therapeutic agent that ...
Use of medication for enlarged prostate not associated with increased risk of hip fracture
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 07, 2008 |
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Use of a class of medications for treating an enlarged prostate, known as 5-α reductase inhibitors, are not associated with an increased hip fracture risk, according to a study in the October 8 issue of JAMA.
Common painkillers lower levels of prostate cancer biomarker
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Common painkillers like aspirin and ibuprofen appear to lower a man's PSA level, the blood biomarker widely used by physicians to help gauge whether a man is at risk of prostate cancer.
Generic prostate drug helps find high-risk cancers early
Sep 11, 2007 |
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Men now have another good reason to consider taking finasteride, a well-known generic drug that shrinks an enlarged prostate and reduces the risk of getting prostate cancer by 25 percent. A new study from the Southwest Oncology ...
More evidence prostate tests overdiagnose cancer
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- As many as two of every five men whose prostate cancer was caught through a PSA screening test have tumors too slow-growing to ever be a threat, says a new study that raises more questions about the controversial ...
New, noninvasive prostate cancer test beats PSA in detecting prostate cancer
Feb 01, 2008 |
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An experimental biomarker test developed by researchers at the University of Michigan more accurately detects prostate cancer than any other screening method currently in use, according to a study published in the February ...
Scientists design a PSA-activated protoxin that kills prostate cancer
Nov 10, 2006 |
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Scientists have found a way of using a protein made by prostate cancer to target and kill the cancer cells themselves. In preliminary studies the new therapy affected only the prostate, without causing damage to other healthy ...
Listening to the urinary stream
Apr 23, 2008 |
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Benign prostate enlargement affects most of the elder men and often compresses the urethra resulting in voiding symptoms. Dutch researcher Tim Idzenga has found a way to measure the resistance of the urethra using sound: ...
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Clues to gigantism provided by family in Borneo Mountains
Aug 21, 2009 |
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An indigenous family living in a mountainous area of Malaysian Borneo helped Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers to discover information about genetic mutations associated with acromegaly, a form ...
Data re-analysis shows drug finasteride reduces risk for most prostate cancers
May 20, 2008 |
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A re-analysis of data from the landmark Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) finds that finasteride reduces the risk for prostate cancer without boosting the odds of aggressive tumors.
Newly discovered gene fusion may lead to improved prostate cancer diagnosis
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Researchers from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center have discovered a new gene fusion that is highly expressed in a subset of prostate cancers. The results may lead to more accurate prostate cancer ...
Findings on bladder-brain link may point to better treatments for problems in sleep, attention
Jul 29, 2008 |
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Bladder problems may leave a mark on the brain, by changing patterns of brain activity, possibly contributing to disrupted sleep and problems with attention. For one in six Americans who have overactive bladder, the involuntary ...
Nano 'balls' can be used to manipulate the properties of glass
Jan 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Liquid or glass, hard or soft -- researchers at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, are investigating a new 'model material' that can adopt a series of different properties. This is ...
