Prostate News Archive
16-Jan-2009
Prostate Cancer Conference at Mayo Clinic (KAAL Austin)
(KAAL) -- It's a type of cancer that some call the "couple disease". The Mayo Clinic in Rochester held a conference on prostate cancer, allowing men to gather information they and their loved ones may need in order to deal with the disease and life after. A Better Blood Test For Prostate Cancer (Medical News Today)
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. Current standards of screening and testing for prostate cancer focus on the blood protein prostate-specific antigen (PSA) along with a digital rectal examination. [click ... 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 ... Women 'more distressed by prostate cancer' (Perth Now)
WOMEN are more distressed by prostate cancer than their male partners who are diagnosed with the disease, a study has found. For Men, a Saving Surgery: Twenty-Five Years Ago, Patrick C. Walsh Devised a Prostate-Cancer Operation That Allowed ... (RedNova)
By Marie McCullough, The Philadelphia Inquirer Apr. 30--In 1982, the surgical cure for prostate cancer was considered worse than the disease. Removing the prostate meant life-threatening bleeding, guaranteed impotence, and a 1 in 4 chance of incontinence.
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