Prostate News Archive
02-Aug-2007
Surgeon's Experience Key To Prostate Surgery Success (Medical News Today)
Surgeons who perform the highest number of prostatectomies -- prostate removal to help stop cancer -- tend to have the best patient outcomes, a new study confirms. In fact, it takes at least 250 operations before a surgeon becomes proficient in the procedure, researchers found. [click link for full article] D.C. Denies Prostate Cancer Vaccine, Provenge: Dendreon (WA) Not FDA To Blame (Medical News Today)
Many in the prostate cancer community are still outraged over the FDA's decision to deny approval for the immunotherapy drug Provenge. Some have even gone as far as to make threats against Howard I. Scher of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (NY) and Maha Hussain of University of Michigan, two physicians who influenced this decision. However, Dr. [click link for full article] Fused Genes Might Fuel Prostate Tumors (HealthCentral.com)
Copyright © 2007 ScoutNews, LLC . All rights reserved. WEDNESDAY, Aug. 1 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers say they've spotted special "gene fusions" that help trigger prostate cancer. Fused Genes Might Fuel Prostate Tumors (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 1 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers say they've spotted special "gene fusions" that help trigger prostate cancer.
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