Prostate News Archive

07-Dec-2006

Prostate cancer patients can get updated info from Web (The Western Star)

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. ? The National prostate Cancer Coalition has launched a new section on its Web site. The section features more than 40 new pages, each one a collection of news stories and research study results on a single topic, from angiogenesis to vitamin E.

Hair-loss drug skews prostate-cancer test (UPI)

DALLAS, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- The hair-loss drug finasteride (Propecia) artificially lowers the results of a screening test for prostate cancer, say U.S. researchers.

Michael Huffington: Surviving Prostate Cancer (HuffingtonPost)

I am 59 years old. Every year I go to the doctor's office for a physical exam. For the past 15 years, I have had a PSA test included in my screening blood work. The Prostatic Specific Antigen (PSA) is a screening test for prostate cancer. My dad had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1990 when the PSA test was relatively new. Many other relatives have also been diagnosed with prostate

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