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Prostate News Archive

19-Nov-2008

  • Swan unveils $7.5m prostate cancer fund (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)

    Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has drawn on his own battle with prostate cancer to announce a $7.5 million federal government grant.


  • Genetic Risk Factors May Tailor Prostate Cancer Screening Approaches (Medical News Today)

    Men with a family history of prostate cancer and African-American men are particularly susceptible to the disease, with a twofold to sevenfold increased risk. Assessing risk in these populations has been difficult. "There have been years of effort to try to identify genes and genetic mutations associated with prostate cancer as there are for breast cancer," said Veda N. Giri, M.D.


  • Gene Screen Might Predict Prostate Cancer (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)

    MONDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors may someday be able to use five genetic markers to assess whether a man is at high risk to develop prostate cancer, a new study suggests.


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