Prostate News Archive
15-Aug-2006
Prostate Cancer Patients Sought for Database as Part of Joint Effort (Newswise)
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Louis Warschaw prostate Cancer Center at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute in Los Angeles is seeking participants for its prostate Patient Profiles Project, in conjunction with Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center, Memorial Campus in Inglewood. Prostate surgery's new super laser now in SA (Independent Online)
A revolution in laser surgery set to change the future of prostate surgery has arrived in South Africa. Hundreds Of Veterans Advised Of Patient Safety Alert (KWTX-TV Waco)
(August 14, 2006)?Nearly a thousand Central Texas veterans who underwent prostate biopsies at local VA hospitals will soon get letters warning them there?s a remote chance they may have been exposed to Hepatitis-B, Hepatitis-C or HIV as a result of an inadequate sterilization process. Long journey for treatment (Central Western Daily)
PROSTATE cancer patients from as far away as Bourke and Young would benefit if Orange could establish a radiotherapy facility, the region's leading urological surgeon said yesterday. Avoiding Prostate Biopsy. (WebMD)
Proteomics -- a person's personal protein profile -- can help determine whether men have prostate cancer, while avoiding invasive biopsies. Obituaries in the news (Boston Globe)
Rufus Harley, who was billed as the world's first and only jazz bagpipe player, died Aug. 1 of prostate cancer. He was 70. Prostate cancer treatment 'too costly' (The Australian)
MEN with prostate cancer are disadvantaged as they try to access an expensive chemotherapy drug, which is listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme only for women, a urologist says. Decrease in progression of prostate cancer (EurekAlert!)
Statistics say that one out of six American men will develop prostate cancer and more than a third of them will experience a recurrence after undergoing treatment, putting them at high risk to die of the disease. Cancer Patient Receives First Treatment at Proton Therapy Institute (Newswise)
A 54-year-old man with prostate cancer today (Aug. 14) became the first patient to undergo treatment at the new University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute in Jacksonville. The treatment marks the first time this advanced form of radiation therapy has been offered in the Southeast.
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