Prostate News Archive
18-Feb-2008
Beyond The Abstract: Influence Of Prostate Size On The Outcome Of Holmium Laser Enucleation Of The Prostate (Medical News Today)
UroToday.com - High-powered holmium lasers are used for ablation, resection and enucleation of the prostate, as this laser has excellent incisional, ablative and haemostatic properties.Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) is a recent step in enabling a true anatomical enucleation of prostatic tissue of any size. A single blood test can predict future prostate cancer (Cancerfacts.com)
NEW YORK ? Feb. 15, 2008 ? A blood test taken before the age of 50 can predict advanced prostate cancer in men up to 25 years before a diagnosis, according to a new study published by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Lund University in Sweden. New Herbal Supplement Promotes Healthy Prostate (Benton Evening News)
(ARA) - If you're a man who suffers from any of these symptoms -- waking up several times a night to use the bathroom, difficulty starting your stream, poor urine flow and volume or erectile dysfunction -- it may be a sign of an even bigger problem: an enlarged prostate. New Predictor Of Prostate Cancer Recurrence Discovered (Science Daily)
Researchers have found a biomarker that may help improve the ability to predict if a man's prostate cancer is going to come back after surgical removal. In order to make this discovery, researchers examined prostate cancer tissue samples that had been removed during surgical procedures on cancer patients. The researchers found that men whose tumors showed a silencing of the gene CDH13 had a ...
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