Prostate News Archive
17-Jul-2006
Threshold Stops Prostate Drug Program (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Shares of Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc. plunged in premarket activity Monday after the biotech company said it would stop development of an enlarged prostate treatment following the failure of two clinical trials. Best option for prostate cancer treatment is individual choice (Agriculture Online)
Allen Lash began with a belief that surgery was his last choice to cure prostate cancer. "When you're diagnosed with prostate cancer, you're dealing with two main issues," he says. "First, your own survival. Second, quality-of-life issues, such as incontinence and sexual function. The Prostate Cancer Center at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (WIVB Buffalo)
Roswell Park Cancer Institute offers a full range of treatment options for patients with prostate cancer. Robotics provide advance in prostate surgery (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)
HUNTINGTON -- More than 230,000 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. But now there is more hope for prostate cancer that requires surgery. Health Business (UPI)
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 17 (UPI) -- Threshold Pharmaceuticals said Monday trials of its potential treatment for enlarged prostate did not meet primary endpoints. Only a Matter of Time: Prostate Cancer Has Potential to Afflict Every Man (RedNova)
By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho, Jul. 17--TWIN FALLS --Chris Selner isn't the kind of guy you'd imagine having cancer. Forty-three years old, healthy, active, never sick a day in his life. Threshold prostate drug fails (San Francisco Business Times)
Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc. said its drug to treat enlarged prostate known as BPH failed in both a mid-stage and late-clinical trial. Threshold Stops Prostate Drug Program (KiplingerForecasts.com)
(AP) REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Shares of Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc. plunged in premarket activity Monday after the biotech company said it would stop development of an enlarged prostate treatment following the failure of two clinical trials. Tiger Loses His Dad (KXAN 36 Austin)
Cypress, Calif. -- Earl Woods has died at the age of 74. He passed away Wednesday morning at his home in California. The father of golfer Tiger Woods was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1998 and was treated with radiation. But the cancer returned in 2004 and spread throughout his body. A New Diagnostic Tool For Prostate Cancer And How A "bigger" Chromosome 8 Can Predict Poorer Outcomes In Prostate (Medical News Today)
According to the World Health Organization there are about 250,000 new cases of prostate cancer every year but, when caught in time, the disease has a cure rate of over 90%. The problem is that the current methods of disease testing are still associated with too many misdiagnoses. [click link for full article]
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