News tagged with gleason score
Predicting the return of prostate cancer: New study betters the odds of success
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Cancer experts at Johns Hopkins say a study tracking 774 prostate cancer patients for a median of eight years has shown that a three-way combination of measurements has the best chance yet of predicting disease metastasis.
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Gene mutations increase risk for aggressive prostate cancer
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Men who develop prostate cancer face an increased risk of having an aggressive tumor if they carry a so-called breast cancer gene mutation, scientists from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva ...
Statins alter prostate cancer patients' PSA levels
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Beyond lowering cholesterol, statin medications have been found to have numerous other health benefits, including lowering a healthy man's risk of developing advanced prostate cancer, as well as lowering his prostate-specific ...
Study refutes belief that black men have more aggressive prostate cancer
Sep 17, 2007 |
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A University of Minnesota study of prostate cancer tumors from Caucasian and African-American men has shown no evidence that the cancer is more aggressive in black men. Lead investigator Akhouri Sinha, a professor of genetics, ...
Elusive protein points to mechanism behind hearing loss
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A serendipitous discovery of deaf zebra fish larvae has helped narrow down the function of an elusive protein necessary for hearing and balance. The work, led by Rockefeller University’s A. ...
USA's largest ever prostate cancer screening program shows high compliance and consistent results
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Just under five per cent of the men who took part in the prostate cancer element of the USA's largest ever cancer screening trial were diagnosed with the disease and the majority of those were picked up by screening programmes, ...
Prostate cancer test improves prediction of disease course
Jun 15, 2009 |
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A new prostate cancer risk assessment test, developed by a UCSF team, gives patients and their doctors a better way of gauging long-term risks and pinpointing high risk cases.
High pretreatment PSA velocity predicts worse outcome
May 25, 2007 |
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The most significant single predictor of aggressive prostate cancer is an elevated rate of increase in prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels, according to a new study. Published in the July 1, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed ...
Study reveals improved prediction of prostrate cancer
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Scientists are another step closer to understanding why some people suffer from life-threatening diseases such as cancer. Research published in the new online open access journal BMC Medical Genomics reveals a model that m ...
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.
Prostate treatment not always needed
Jul 06, 2006 |
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A Canadian urologist says younger men diagnosed with early prostate cancer may be able to live long lives without treatment.
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