Prostate News Archive
03-Feb-2009
Visually Directed Transrectal High Intensity Focused Ultrasound For The Treatment Of Prostate Cancer: A Preliminary ... (Medical News Today)
UroToday.com - High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) represents a minimally invasive approach to treating prostate cancer (CaP). It is presently not FDA approved in the US, but experience with the approach exists in Europe. In the January 2009 edition of the Journal of Urology, Dr. S. Matthew Devine | Bail interviewer, 86 (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
S. Matthew Devine, 86, a bail interviewer for Delaware County from 1977 to last year, died of prostate cancer Wednesday at Kennedy Memorial Hospitals-University Medical Center/Stratford. Since April, he and his wife, Bernice, had lived in West Deptford. The Impact Of Obesity On The Diagnosis Of Prostate Cancer Using A Modern Extended Biopsy Scheme (Medical News Today)
UroToday.com - Studies associating obesity and prostate cancer (CaP) are varied. In the February 2009 edition of the Journal of Urology, Dr. Raj Pruthi and colleagues reported on the impact of obesity in the detection of CaP. The study is a single institution series of 500 men with an increased or increasing PSA or abnormal DRE who underwent transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy of the prostate. Hal Mumme reveals he has prostate cancer (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Former University of Kentucky football coach Hal Mumme confirmed to the Herald-Leader Monday that recent tests revealed he has prostate cancer. ?Hopefully they caught it in time,? Mumme said. ?The prognosis is good.? Mumme said he started feeling ill during fall camp of his final season at New Mexico State, where he was fired as head coach in December. Doctors initially ran tests and ... New Method of Robotic Prostatectomy Shows Multiple Benefits (Newswise)
A new robotic surgical technique developed for the removal of all or part of the prostate gland is showing what investigators call a "dramatic improvement" in a male's sexual potency rate. The results were recently presented at the 26th World Congress Endourology meeting in Shanghai, China.
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