Prostate News Archive
08-Jan-2008
EPCA-2 testing more accurate way to identify cancer in the prostate (News-Medical-Net)
New studies of a blood protein recently identified at Johns Hopkins, early prostate cancer antigen-2 (EPCA-2), may change the way men are screened for prostate cancer - a disease that kills tens of thousands of men every year. IMA meet on prostate enlargement (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News)
A clinical meeting was organised on Sunday by the Indian Medical Association on Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia clinical manifestations and management . The meeting was presided over by Dr Diwakar Dalela, the HOD, Urology Department, King George s Medical University (KGMU). Around 20 to 30 doctors from all over the city attended the meting. They later approached Dr Dalela for their queries regarding ... Cesium-131 From IsoRay Medical (TM), Inc. Established as a Front Line Treatment for Early Stage Prostate Cancer ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CHICAGO----Investigators of a recent multi-institutional trial, led by principal investigator Bradley Prestidge, conclude that Cesium-131, a medical isotope used in low dose brachytherapy treatment for prostate cancer, "... has come into widespread use; and the clinical results of this trial are mature enough to be of immediate, important, practical use to practitioners."
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