All Entries in the "Prostate Cancer" Category
Sexually Transmitted Infection Raises Prostate Cancer Risk
Recent research has found that a common sexually transmitted infection, trichomoniasis, may increase risk of aggressive prostate cancer in men. Jennifer Stark of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and colleagues conducted a new study including 673 men with prostate cancer. It was found that risk of advanced prostate cancer is more in [...]
Overweight Men More Apt To Get Prostate Cancer
According to results of a study in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, Body mass and weight gain during younger and older adulthood may influence a man’s prostate cancer risk. Men who put on significant number of pounds are at greater risk of developing prostate cancer, when [...]
High Insulin Levels May Up Prostate Cancer Risk
New study in the Journal Of The National Cancer Institute have found that high insulin levels might increase the risk of prostate cancer. Lead researcher Dr Demetrius Albanes, of the Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md, have examined the link between serum insulin and [...]
Seed Implants Best For Prostate Cancer Treatment For Men Of All Ages
Treatment for prostate cancer may have number of options, but the daunting task could be to choose the right mix of therapies for an individual patient. Earlier medical professionals have tipped the scales in favor of certain cancer treatment options for younger men diagnosed with prostate cancer. But a recent study led by the scientists [...]
Dealing With Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer usually does not have any symptoms until it has spread to other parts of your body. These symptoms will include blood in your urine, frequency of urination, and you will even see blood in your semen. You may have prostate cancer and are wondering what kind of complications will arise with this disease. [...]
New Gene Test Will Avoid Prostate Cancer Biopsy
With nearly 200,000 diagnosed cases last year, prostate cancer is by far the most common type of cancer among American men. Moreover, almost a similar number of men, who do not have cancerous tumours, undergo expensive and painful biopsies after being diagnosed with high levels of PSA (prostate-specific antigen). Critics of the PSA test have [...]
Doctors Want Yearly Prostate Cancer Screening
In the United States after skin cancer, prostrate cancer causes more male deaths, and there are over one hundred and fifty new cases each year. Despite the nearly thirty thousand American men that died last year from this disease, a group of doctors do not believe that annual testing is the right approach. Annually screening [...]
New Radiation Treatment For Prostate Cancer
A new type of radiation treatment may soon be offered for patients who suffer from prostate cancer. Rather than the standard radiation therapy currently given, this new therapy is called stereotactic body radiotherapy. It is a safe and effective alternative, and uses x-rays to more precisely target the sites where the radiation is to be [...]
