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Hormones not for all prostate cancer patients
jerry submitted, created time 1 week 5 days (www.usatoday.com)
A new study raises additional questions about the benefits of drugs given to more than half of prostate cancer patients.
Hormone therapy, which blocks the production of the testosterone that feeds prostate tumors, is a mainstay of treatment for men with advanced disease. Studies show it also improves survival in patients with aggressive tumors that are still limited to the prostate. 
Pain relievers may complicate prostate screening
jerry submitted, created time 4 weeks 1 day (www.reuters.com)
Taking a popular class of pain relievers that includes aspirin and ibuprofen lowers the levels of a protein in a man's blood that doctors use to screen for prostate cancer, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Link Between Vitamin D And Multiple Sclerosis
kavin submitted, created time 1 month 1 hour (www.medicalnewstoday.com)
Vitamin D, the principal regulator of calcium in the body, may prevent the production of malignant cells such as breast and prostate cancer cells and protect against specific autoimmune disorders including multiple sclerosis (MS) according to an article by Sylvia Christakos, PhD, of the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School.
In the article, Christakos reports that research shows that the incidence of MS decreases as the amount of vitamin D available to the body increases, either through sunlight exposure or diet
Prostate cancer risk increased in obese men who use statin drugs
kavin submitted, created time 1 month 5 days (www.reuters.com)
Use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, especially long-term use, appears to raise the risk of prostate cancer among obese men, according to findings of a new study.
"Given the epidemic of obesity in the U.S. and the frequent use of statins, the positive association we observed raises substantial concern as to the safety of these widely prescribed agents," Dr. Janet L. Stanford of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and colleagues wrote in the American Journal of Epidemiology
Regrets After Prostate Surgery
kavin submitted, created time 1 month 5 days (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
One in five men who undergoes prostate surgery to treat cancer later regrets the decision, a new study shows. Surprisingly, regret is highest among men who opt for robotic prostatectomy, a minimally invasive surgery that is growing in popularity as a treatment.
The research, published in the medical journal European Urology, is the latest to suggest that technological advances in prostate surgery haven’t necessarily translated to better results for the men on which it is performed
Virus helps show how cancer spreads
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 2 weeks (news.bbc.co.uk)
Scientists have used a common cold virus to "light up" prostate cancer tumors in different parts of the body. A University of California team has found that, when infected by a certain virus, mouse prostate cancer cells become remarkably easy to spot on scanners.
The research team says that the technique requires further development, but if these results extrapolate to humans, it could be a huge boon to cancer research, particularly in cases in which metastasis is suspected.
UCLA researchers locate and image prostate cancer as it spreads to lymph nodes
kavin submitted, created time 2 months 3 weeks (newsroom.ucla.edu)
Using an engineered common cold virus, UCLA researchers delivered a genetic payload to prostate cancer cells that allowed them, using Positron Emission Tomography (PET), to locate the diseased cells as they spread to the lymph nodes, the first place prostate cancer goes before invading other organs.
The tiny cancer metastases in the pelvic lymph nodes are very difficult to find using conventional imaging tools such as CT scanning
A little sun might fight cancer
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 3 weeks (www.newscientist.com)
Sunshine is regularly blamed for causing fatal skin cancers, but it may help save your life if you develop a different cancer. It seems that sunlight has an overall protective effect as it stimulates the body's production of vitamin D, which helps to combat internal cancers, including those of the colon and prostate.
"A little sun exposure is a little better for you than avoiding sunlight," says Richard Setlow of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, who co-led the new work
Radical Prostatectomy - Where We Were And Where We Are Going?
kavin submitted, created time 3 months 1 week (www.mphtimes.com)
ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Dr. Walsh presented the Whitmore Lecture. He discussed the past history of radical prostatectomy (RP). The first RP was performed in 1904 in a perineal approach. The retropubic operation was introduced in 1947. During the Whitmore era, many men did not need to be cured, as they had more comorbidities and died of other causes. Presently, cancer is the leading cause of death in the US. In Whitmore's era, cure was often not possible due to advanced disease and complications for lower risk disease were too high
kavin submitted, created time 3 months 2 weeks (www.pnas.org)
Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide (PACAP), a cAMP-activating agent, is highly expressed in the hypothalamus during the period when many neuroendocrine cells become differentiated from the neural stem cells (NSCs). Activation of the cAMP system in rat hypothalamic NSCs differentiated these cells into β-endorphin (BEP)-producing neurons in culture
New Genes Linked to Prostate Cancer Risk
Sue Wu submitted, created time 7 months 3 weeks (www.efluxmedia.com)
In a report published in Nature Genetics, Cancer Research UK announced that its scientists have discovered seven new sites in the human genome that are linked to men's risk of developing prostate cancer.
By Keeping Vitamin A Active Drug Slows Prostate Tumor Growth
june submitted, created time 10 months 4 weeks (www.medicalnewstoday.com)
A novel compound that blocks the breakdown of retinoic acid, derived from vitamin A, is a surprisingly effective and "promiscuous" agent in treating animal models of human prostate cancer, say investigators from the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB).
Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer and the Risk of Cardiovascular Mortality
Siegfried submitted, created time 11 months 4 days (jnci.oxfordjournals.org)
They investigated whether androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) use is associated with an increased risk of death from cardiovascular causes in patients treated for localized prostate cancer.
Radiation Seed Treatment Helps Younger Men Fight Prostate Cancer
biosunny submitted, created time 11 months 4 days (health.usnews.com)
Men 60 and younger are often advised to have surgery to remove part or all of the prostate, because many surgeons believe it's more effective long-term.In this study, researchers analyzed the outcomes of more than 1,700 men with localized prostate cancer treated with brachytherapy at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York between 1990 and 2005.They found that men 60 and younger had the same outcomes as older men.
New genetic variant associated with prostate cancer in African-Americans
carly submitted, created time 11 months 6 days (www.eurekalert.org)
Two tiny genetic variations may provide the best clues yet for finding more precise ways to estimate prostate cancer risk and improve screening and early detection for men of African descent.
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