News articles tagged with 'prostate'
MicroRNA variations associated with earlier prostate cancer diagnosis in African-American men
— 4 Apr 2011 18:33 | HealthProstate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death among American men. Yet population-wide screening programs have not reduced the number of deaths from the disease.…
U-M scientists find potential driver of some aggressive prostate cancers
— 4 Apr 2011 17:53 | HealthResearchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Centre have identified a genetic anomaly that may drive the aggressive spread of a rare subset of prostate cancers…
Scientists identify KRAS rearrangements in metastatic prostate cancer
— 3 Apr 2011 12:29 | HealthScientists have uncovered a genetic characteristic of metastatic prostate cancer that defines a rare sub-type of this disease. These findings are published in Cancer Discovery, the…
Digoxin may be a possible treatment for prostate cancer
— 3 Apr 2011 12:11 | HealthScientists have identified digoxin as a possible therapy for prostate cancer, using a combination of laboratory science and epidemiology that is unprecedented in its cooperative nature…
Heart drug cuts prostate cancer risk; holds potential for therapeutic use
— 3 Apr 2011 11:56 | HealthJohns Hopkins scientists and their colleagues paired laboratory and epidemiologic data to find that men using the cardiac drug, digoxin, had a 24 percent lower risk for prostate cancer.…
Screening does not reduce prostate cancer deaths
— 1 Apr 2011 16:18 | HealthScreening does not significantly reduce prostate cancer deaths, but the risk of overdetection and overtreatment is considerable, concludes a 20-year study published on bmj.com today…
New tool allows for an alternate method of prostate cancer diagnosis
— 1 Apr 2011 15:57 | HealthResearchers have found that it may not be necessary to look for tumours directly in patients with prostate cancer - analysing non-tumour tissue may be an effective option, according…
Researchers find many elderly men are undergoing unnecessary PSA screenings
— 29 Mar 2011 16:43 | HealthA new study on the use of prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based prostate cancer screening in the United States found that many elderly men may be undergoing unnecessary prostate cancer…
Long-term study: Robot-assisted prostate surgery is safe
— 28 Mar 2011 17:22 | HealthIn the first study of its kind, urologists and biostatisticians at Henry Ford Hospital have found that robot-assisted surgery to remove cancerous prostate glands is safe over the long…
New imaging technique provides rapid, high-definition chemistry
— 21 Mar 2011 16:32 | ChemistryWith intensity a million times brighter than sunlight, a new synchrotron-based imaging technique offers high-resolution pictures of the molecular composition of tissues with unprecedented…