All Entries in the "Prostate Cancer" Category
PSA Test to Check for Prostate Cancer
You can find various methods to check for prostate cancer, but the simplest test to recognize the development of this condition is prostate specific antigen test or PSA test. PSA is a non-invasive blood test that verifies the levels of particular antigen generated by the prostate. This test gives an indication to your doctor whether [...]
How to Prevent Prostate Cancer? A Quick Guide
There is no sure shot method to prevent prostate cancer, but there are various things you can do to help reduce the risk. It is much complicated and research is still going on to understand and find out the safe and efficient methods on how to prevent prostate cancer. Researches are not clear about the [...]
Caramel Color and Cancer Risk; the Connection Between Balding and Cancer Risk
Different causal relationships keep getting established between cancer and other substances; equally there are seen to be connections existing between cancer and other conditions that we have, the most recent of which are – Recently a consumer group has called for the ban of the caramel food coloring because of its alleged cancer risk. It [...]
Cancer Research and Development that Could Mean Fresh Hope for Sufferers
There has been a significant breakthrough that could hold out hope for those that suffer from the commonest of male cancers, prostate cancer – the genetic code of prostate cancer has been cracked by scientists, and this could well transform the way the disease is treated. This will hopefully enable treatments to be prescribed based [...]
Robotic Prostate Surgery – A Breakthrough in Prostate Cancer
The cases of prostate cancer grow daily by the hundreds. Studies have shown that African-Americans are more prone to this, but this does not mean that everyone else is safe or immune from this disease. The cause of prostate cancer is due to the fact that cancer cells form in the prostate gland or nearby [...]
New Radiation Therapy For Prostate Cancer
Impotence and incontinence are frequently the unfortunate consequences of prostate cancer treatment that typically involves radiotherapy and surgery. This is because there are chances that the healthy tissue adjoining the tumor could also become damaged in the process of attacking the tumor and many patients fear the treatment because of this. Now however a new [...]
Prostate Cancer ‘Vaccine’ Approved By FDA
It is thought that this is a development significant enough to herald a new era in the field of cancer therapy: the approval of the first cancer therapy that looks to use the patient’s own immune system to fight cancerous tumors. The FDA has approved a new drug called Provenge. This drug is also known [...]
Dynamite May Cure The Prostate Cancer
The prostate cancer is currently the most frequent male cancer in Europe and, on an average scale, every year is diagnosed around 177 new cases in every country. From these diagnosed cases, 7.3% of the patients die annually from this cause. In order to prevent the occurrence of prostate cancer, every man has to be [...]
