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Prostate News Archive

15-Aug-2008

  • Study sees benefit in prostate cancer surgery (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

    Men with early prostate cancer who have their prostate glands surgically removed are less likely to die from the disease than those who take a more passive, wait-and-see approach, researchers said on Tuesday.


  • VA patients in Pa. fear prostate treatment error (AP via Yahoo! News)

    A Philadelphia veterans hospital says it may have given insufficient radiation treatment to more than 100 prostate-cancer patients.


  • Surgery Helps With Prostate Cancer, Sometimes (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)

    TUESDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDay News) -- The latest update from a European study that has followed men with prostate cancer for more than a decade leaves the debate about the advantages of aggressive treatment versus "watchful waiting" undecided.


  • BOOK REVIEW: Prostate Cancer: Signaling Networks, Genetics, and New Treatment Strategies (New England Journal of Medicine)

    More than 218,000 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed every year in the United States. Great improvements in diagnosis and treatment have been made over the past two decades, ...


  • Prostate Test Recommendations Won't Quell Controversy (ThirdAge)

    NEW YORK - August 6, 2008 - New advice that men over 75 should not be screened for prostate cancer won't quell the long-standing controversy over the usefulness of the blood test for the disease, cancer experts said Tuesday.


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