Prostate News Archive

16-Dec-2006

Diabetes And Cardiovascular Disease During Androgen Deprivation Therapy For Prostate Cancer (Medical News Today)

UroToday.com - While recent data have raised awareness regarding the association between the metabolic syndrome and androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer, the exact risk of diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease in these patients has not been well established. [click link for full article]

Treating localized prostate cancer boosts survival (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Survival rates for men with localized prostate cancer are better with either surgery or radioactive seed implantation, a treatment called brachytherapy, compared with no "definitive" treatment, investigators at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City report. This is true even among older men.

Prostate Treatment for Elderly Good News for Intuitve Surgical (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance)

Travis Johnson submits: An interesting study was released this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association that might mean the market for prostate surgery is going to get bigger -- which would mean good things for the makers of the da Vinci surgical robot, Intuitive Surgical .

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