Prostate News Archive
31-Dec-2007
Aspirin, Hormone Therapy Combo Can Shorten Lives of Prostate Cancer Patients (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Men undergoing hormone therapy for prostate cancer who take baby aspirin to protect their heart run a significantly higher risk of dying, new research suggests. Jefferson scientists find protein potential drug target for treatment-resistant prostate cancer (EurekAlert!)
(PHILADELPHIA) Scientists at Jefferson?s Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia have found that a signaling protein that is key to prostate cancer cell growth is turned on in nearly all recurrent prostate cancers that are resistant to hormone therapy. Loved ones of victims begin paying respects (Lincoln Journal Star)
OMAHA ? Janet Jorgensen had recently helped her husband of 50 years through a battle with prostate cancer. Dianne Trent liked to tend the flowers on her porch and chat with her neighbor over tea. Victor Lloyd Ettredge, World War II POW, dies at 83 (Houston Chronicle)
Victor Lloyd Ettredge, a bomber pilot who survived a German prisoner of war camp and later went on to a successful engineering career at NASA, died Dec. 26 of prostate cancer. He was 83. Ettredge's B-17 was shot down in the waning days of World War II and he spent several months in POW camps, including time at Buchenwald, which doubled as a notorious concentration camp.
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