Prostate News Archive
17-Dec-2006
A sportsman for all seasons (USA Today)
Lamar Hunt was remembered Thursday for his string of contributions to pro football. But Hunt had a hand in many sports ventures. When people called him a visionary, they really might have meant rebel. Hunt, 74, died Wednesday night in a Dallas hospital after battling prostate cancer for nearly nine years. 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] Prostate Cancer (RedNova)
The US TOO Prostate Cancer Support Group will meet today at 6:30 p.m. in the Ridge Baptist Church auxiliary building, 1515 Eastridge Drive, for a holiday pot-full-of-luck dinner. Bring a dish to share. For details, call Peter Moon evenings at (804) 346-4407. Treating localized prostate cancer boosts survival (Reuters via Yahoo!7 Health)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - 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.
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