Side-effects of treatment can be embarrassing and uncomfortable. These factors on their own create complexities in relationships but to complicate matters further, prostate cancer often occurs at a time when the female partners of heterosexual patients have gone through, or are going through menopause...
Psychosocial effects of prostate cancerDavid J G Brown
Lifetime probabilities of developing breast cancer were calculated for first-degree female relatives of three groups of breast cancer patients: 114 with bilateral cancer, 186 unselected, and 88 males. The patients were classified according to whether they had a family history of prostate, endometrial...
Cryotherapy (cryosurgery) for prostate cancer freezes the prostatic tissue, causing cancer cells to die. As a minimally invasive procedure, cryotherapy for prostate cancer is sometimes used as an alternative to surgical removal of the prostate gland. In the past, cryotherapy for prostate cancer was ...
The comparative effectiveness of localized prostate cancer treatments is largely unknown. To compare the effectiveness and harms of treatments for localize... Wilt,J Timothy - 《Annals of Internal Medicine》 被引量: 1652发表: 2008年 Weight Gain Is Associated with an Increased Risk of Prostate Canc...
New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine reassessing clinical data from trials, which investigate ways of treating side effects of therapy for prostate cancer, finds that tamoxifen, an anti-estrogen used to treat breast
This suggests that strong PTEN expression may be a prognostic factor of stage D2 prostate cancer and that such an expression is an independent prognostic factor. 展开 关键词: PTEN PTEN prostate cancer androgen deprivation therapy castration resistant prostate cancer ...
Thus, in early tumor progression, specific signaling from cancer cells activates bio-pathways, which abolish the innate anticancer properties of fibroblasts and convert a high proportion of them to tumor-promoting cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs). Following this initial event, a wide spectrum of ...
Case Presentation: A 74-year-old man with a new diagnosis of locally advanced prostate cancer is referred to the cardio-oncology clinic for optimization of his cardiovascular health after treatment with degarelix, a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor antagonist, for his prostate cancer. ...
Comparison of radiation side-effects in prostate cancer. By - Wolfgang Lilleby, Dag Rune Olsen, Sophie D Fossdoi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)75969-9Wolfgang LillebyDag Rune OlsenS D Foss aThe LancetDearnaley DP, Khoo VS, Norman AR, Meyer L, Nanum A, et al. Comparison of radiation side-...