The results, released Saturday, are encouraging for men who want to avoid treatment-related sexual and incontinence problems, said Dr. Stacy Loeb, a prostate cancer specialist at NYU Langone Health who was not involved in the research. The study directly compared the three approaches — surgery t...
The CCR score is a validated prognosticator of metastasis and death in localized prostate cancer. It's an amalgam of traditional clinical risk factors from theCancer of the ProstateRisk Assessment (CAPRA) score and the cell-cycle progression (CCP) score, which measures expression of cell-cycle pr...
Treatment data for prostate cancer can be obtained from a variety of sources. Each of these sources has its own strengths and weaknesses and is subject to ...vekri
It is found that men with prostate cancer all need support and information when making treatment decisions. However, little has been said about the types of support and information needed or the best way to deliver them. The undesirable situation is coupled with people's seemingly innate wish ...
Recently, nanometer sized vesicles (termed exosomes) have been described as a component of urine. Such vesicles may be a useful non-invasive source of markers in renal disease. Their utility as a source of markers in urological cancer remains unstudied.
Men With Early Prostate Cancer Can Safely Opt Out of Treatment, finds Landmark StudySharon Begley
Elevated baseline CTC counts are linked to worse overall survival, progression-free survival, and treatment response in cancer patients. In prostate cancer, patients with five or more CTCs at treatment start had significantly shorter median survival compared to those with no detectable CTCs. SHOW MO...
Cancer cell glycocalyx is a major line of defence against immune surveillance. However, how specific physical properties of the glycocalyx are regulated on a molecular level, contribute to immune evasion and may be overcome through immunoengineering must be resolved. Here we report how cancer-associat...
Risperidone (Risperdal) Your bed-wetting may also be due to conditions that affect your body's ability to store and hold urine. For instance,bladder cancerandprostate cancercan cause it. So can diseases of thebrainandspine, such as aseizuredisorder,multiple sclerosis, orParkinson's disease. ...
According to the National Cancer Institute, some preliminary research in people has shown that curcumin, when used alongside conventional treatment, may improve different types of cancer includingbreast,prostate,pancreatic, andcolorectal cancer(though they note that other studies did not show an improvemen...