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Moves to make more prescription drugs available over the counter won't help patients or doctors
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Government plans to make certain prescription-only drugs for common problems available over the counter have overwhelmingly been given the thumbs down by healthcare professionals, reveals a survey of readers of the influential ...
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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 ...
MRI findings help forecast prostate cancer prognosis
Mar 25, 2008 |
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in patients about to undergo radiation therapy for prostate cancer can help predict the likelihood that the cancer will return and spread post-treatment, according to a new study ...
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 ...
Growth factor receptor affects prostate cancer progression
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Breeding mice with a gene for a cellular receptor that can be turned on and off-at will-not only enabled researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to show how prostate cancer progresses, but also provides a model ...
MR imaging helps predict recurrence in prostate cancer patients
May 04, 2007 |
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MR images taken of prostate cancer patients prior to treatment that show that the cancer has spread outside the prostate gland capsule help predict whether the cancer will return, according to a recent study conducted by ...
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 ...
Shrinkage of prostate led to overestimation of cancer risk in trial
Sep 12, 2007 |
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Reanalysis of data from the first long-term randomized trial of a chemopreventive agent for prostate cancer shows that the excess prevalence of high-grade prostate cancer in the drug-treated group may be attributable to shrinkage ...
Prostate cancer spurs new nerves
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Prostate cancer – and perhaps other cancers – promotes the growth of new nerves and the branching axons that carry their messages, a finding associated with more aggressive tumors, said researchers from Baylor College of ...
Monitoring blood flow helps improve prostate biopsies, researchers report
May 24, 2008 |
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Using a special ultrasound technique to spot areas of blood flow in the prostate gland may substantially reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies, according to a new study by urologists and radiologists at the Jefferson ...
Radiation added to hormone therapy increases survival for men with prostate cancer
Sep 22, 2008 |
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For men with locally advanced prostate cancer the addition of radiation treatment to anti-androgen hormone therapy reduces the risk of dying of prostate cancer by 50 percent compared to those who have anti-androgen hormone ...
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