News and Features Related to Prostate Cancer
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Obesity Ups Prostate Cancer Death Risk
Jan. 8, 2007 -- Obesity Obesity can double a man's risk of dying from prostate cancer prostate cancer, a National Cancer Institute study shows. Moreover, the more weight a man gains during adulthood, the higher his risk of prostate cancer death. Ironically, the study also shows obese men have a lowe
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Radiation Alone Can Prolong Life for Prostate Cancer Patients
July 14, 2000 -- When it comes to surviving prostate cancer, a man's best bet may be high-dose radiation. In the first study to show such a survival advantage, researchers found that patients who had received the highest doses of radiation -- because they had the most aggressive tumors -- were the m
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Weight Loss Cuts Prostate Cancer Risk
Dec. 22, 2006 -- Men who lose weight may be less likely to get aggressive prostate cancer , while obesity may increase a man's risk. So say researchers, including Carmen Rodriguez, MD, MPH, of the American Cancer Society. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer (except for skin cancer ) in U.S. me
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Statins vs. Advanced Prostate Cancer
Dec. 19, 2006 -- Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may lower men's chances of developing advanced prostate cancer , a new study shows. But it is "premature to recommend the use of statins for the prevention of prostate cancer ," write the researchers. They included Elizabeth Platz, ScD, of Johns Hop
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Treat Prostate Cancer in Older Men?
Dec. 12, 2006 -- To treat or not to treat? That is the question for older men with early-stage prostate cancer . The jury is still out, but new research suggests a survival advantage for older prostate cancer patients with localized disease who chose active treatment over close observation without t
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Hair-Loss Drug Alters Cancer Test
Dec. 7, 2006 -- The hair-loss drug Propecia lowers the reading on the PSA prostate-cancer screening test, U.S. researchers find. This means men on Propecia may have dangerously high PSA levels even if their test scores are in the normal range, the researchers say. It's already known that Proscar --
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Is There a Prostate Cancer Diet?
Scientists don't yet know how to prevent prostate cancer through diet. This article is about nutritional research on prostate cancer.
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New Urine Test ID's Prostate Cancer
Nov. 28, 2006 - A new urine test can tell prostate cancer from an enlarged prostate -- but can't tell whether the cancer is deadly. The test, from San Diego-based Gen-Probe, is approved in some European countries but not in the U.S. It detects genetic material -- RNA -- from prostate cancer gene 3 o
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Radiation Vs. Advanced Prostate Cancer
Nov. 15, 2006 -- Radiation therapy after surgery for advanced prostate cancer may lessen the chance of cancer return, though it may not raise survival rates. That's according to researchers including Ian Thompson Jr., MD, of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Thompson's te
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Testosterone May Be Safe for Prostate
Nov. 14, 2006 -- Testosterone replacement therapy in older men may not raise the risk of prostate cancer, as once thought. A small, new study shows that short-term testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) among men with low testosterone has little effect on the prostate gland. The male hormone is invo
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