Prostate News Archive
06-Jul-2011
Prostate gland can impede urination - Tue, 05 Jul 2011 PST
DEAR DR. GOTT: My husband has been having a problem for at least a year with having to get up several times at night. Then he had a burning sensation when he went to the bathroom. He started taking a product called Super Beta prostate. He went to a urologist, who gave him antibiotics and said he was retaining a day?s urine in his bladder. Is there anything he can do, take or eat to help with the ... Life after prostate surgery worse than men expect: poll
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Nearly half of men who undergo surgery for prostate cancer find that life after the surgery is worse than they expect, with less sexual function and greater incontinence problems than they anticipated, according to a poll. Medicare Will Pay for Prostate Cancer Drug
THURSDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- The cost of Provenge, an expensive and newly approved therapeutic prostate cancer vaccine, will be covered by Medicare for men with metastatic prostate cancer, the agency announced late Thursday. Smoking linked to more aggressive prostate cancer
Men with prostate cancer who are cigarette smokers at the time of their diagnosis are much more likely to die of the disease or experience a recurrence than nonsmokers, including former smokers who kicked the habit at least 10 years before diagnosis. Medicare Will Pay for Pricey Prostate Cancer Drug
THURSDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- The cost of Provenge, an expensive and newly approved therapeutic prostate cancer vaccine, will be covered by Medicare for men with metastatic prostate cancer, the agency announced late Thursday.
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