Prostate News Archive
05-Dec-2006
NEWS SECTIONS (Carlsbad Current-Argus)
Low doses of the popular drug Propecia can result in a false reading for a safe level of the PSA marker. The hair-loss drug Propecia interferes with the most commonly used test for prostate cancer, causing inaccurate readings that can mask the presence of the disease, researchers reported Monday. 15-Year Study of More Than 5,000 Patients Reveals Key Factors in Predicting Outcomes for Prostate Cancer Recurrence (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ATLANTA----Results of a groundbreaking national study from leading prostate cancer researchers associated with the New York prostate Institute, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, the Cleveland Clinic, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota, the University of California at San Francisco and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center revealed that key factors can predict outcomes for African-Americans with Prostate Cancer More Likely to Have Family History of Prostate, Breast Cancer (Kansas City InfoZine)
African-American men with prostate cancer were more likely to report a family history of prostate cancer and breast cancer among siblings than men who did not have prostate cancer, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. A big benefit of "those" TV ads: prostate awareness (Denver Post)
prostate health is taking its place among all those things you're not sure you want to hear about while snacking in front of the TV.
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