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Advanced prostate and bladder cancer are two outstanding unmet medical needs for urological oncologists. The high prevalence of these tumours, lack of effective biomarkers and limited effective treatment options highlight the importance of basic research
PURPOSE: Diagnostic bias can be a problem when determining the coincidence of prostate and bladder cancer. The objective of this study was to calculate the coincidence of bladder and prostate cancer after correcting for diagnostic bias. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The cancer registry at 1 medical institut...
A urine stream that stops and starts several times while you pee Pushing or straining to start a urine stream Bladder infection.Your bladder holds your urine. The organ is located directly above your prostate. Some bladder cancer symptoms can overlap with those for prostate cancer. They may inc...
Background: Recent studies have questioned the high risk for disease recurrence in cases of bladder neck involvement by prostate cancer (pT4 disease). Design: The study was based on 141 patients submitted to radical prostatectomy. PSA-recurrence was defined as 0.5 ng/ml or rising at three diffe...
What do I need to know about prostate cancer?The prostate is the male sex gland that helps make semen. It wraps around the urethra. The urethra is the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the end of the penis. In most cases, prostate cancer is slow growing. Prostate cancer ...
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1 We used this exon array to identify tissue- and tumor-specific alternative splicing in normal and cancer tissues by analyzing exon expression in more than 100 samples from colon, bladder, and prostate. The strategy was to screen for splice variants expressed commonly in normal tissues and ...
In prostate cancer, versican and perlecan promote tumor progression, whereas decorin and betaglycan are tumor suppressors; syndecan-1 might have a dual role as an antagonist and agonist depending on disease stage and enzymatic conditions Dynamic interplay between sortilin and syndecan-1 contributes to...
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy in British men. The increasing use of PSA screening test has resulted in many more patients being diagnosed with this condition. Advances in its treatment have improved the survival rate among the