All Entries in the "Prostate Cancer" Category
Deadly Side Effects Of Treatment For Prostate Cancer
Experts are expressing concern that commonly used procedures for treating prostate cancer may be responsible for a deadly side effect: the formation of a potentially life threatening blood clot. A Swedish study found that those men who received hormone treatment were more at risk of developing blood clots. It is thought that hormone therapy is [...]
Prostate Cancer Linked To Infertility And Baldness
For those men who have a receding hairline or are balding, this may be heartening news: recent research has indicated that bald men are only half as likely to develop prostate cancer when compared with their more hirsute counterparts. Apparently the risk of developing prostate cancer is reduced by nearly 50% by hair loss as [...]
Cancer Society Warns Against Over-Treating Prostate Cancer
There has long been debate about the efficacy or indeed the requirement of prostate cancer testing and now the American Cancer Society has issued fresh screening recommendations about screening for prostate cancer. Durango Brooks, the society’s director of prostate and colorectal cancers called for informed decision making among doctors as well as patients as regards [...]
The Future In Testing For Identification Of Prostate Cancer Metastasis
The new investigation used to track and identify the metastasis in the prostate cancer has a very important role in the early and effective treatment of the persons suffering from this disease. As the technology is evolving daily into more and more progressive treatment methods the future of the cancer patients seems to look brighter [...]
Close Encounters With Prostate Cancer And Life After Cancer
The New York Times runs a viscerally honest and startlingly educational account of one man’s battle with Prostate cancer. Dana Jennings speaks about his brush with death and having had the ‘privilege’ of watching “death at work inside my body”. He talks about suicide crossing his mind, but also the reasons why he felt compelled [...]
Significant Risk Factors For Prostate Cancer
The specific mechanism leading to the presence of prostate cancer is still unknown but over the last years were identified certain risk factors that need to be carefully considered. The risk increases with age because the cases of prostate cancers seldom appear at men under the age of 40; and it is established as a [...]
Men With Desk Jobs More Likely To Develop Prostate Cancer
A new research suggests that men with desk jobs are more likely to develop prostate cancer. The study found that 30 percent of people are diagnosed with prostate cancer who spend their working lives sitting down than those with active jobs. According to the analysis of 45,000 men aged 45 to 79, people who had [...]
Stem Cell For Prostate Cancer Is Discovered
Prostate cancer is among the commonest forms of cancer among men and is therefore the subject matter of constant ongoing research. According to the BBC, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8241877.stm) in the UK alone, 34,000 men are diagnosed with the disease, and around 10,000 die from it. Now researchers have found that a particular stem cell, which is a [...]
