Prostate News Archive
19-Feb-2008
St. Clair County Health Department offers prostate cancer tests (Collinsville Herald)
The St. Clair County Health Department, a member of the prostate Cancer Alliance, will provide two prostrate cancer education tests and a free prostate-specific antigen blood test to men over 40, along with a brief education session on prostrate cancer. The PSA test is used to screen and detect prostate cancer in its earliest stages. Prostate Cancer Treatment Can Be Risky (WebMD)
For some men with prostate cancer, the risks of hormone treatment may outweigh the benefits, new research suggests. 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 ... Cougar reports encouraging results of Phase I prostate cancer trial (Pharmaceutical Business Review)
Cougar Biotechnology has reported positive data from the Phase I dose ranging trial of companys prostate cancer drug candidate CB7630 or abiraterone acetate.
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