Prostate News Archive
10-Jun-2007
Risk Of Prostate Cancer understimated By African-American Men (Medical News Today)
Many African-American men radically underestimate the likelihood that having a needle biopsy for suspected prostate cancer will result in a cancer diagnosis, according to a study from the University of Chicago Medical Center.The researchers, who presented their results at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago, say this is alarming. [click link for full article] Prostate Cancer Treatment Can Speed Heart Attacks (HealthCentral.com)
Copyright © 2007 ScoutNews LLC. All rights reserved. FRIDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) -- The male hormone-suppressing treatment used against aggressive prostate cancer may help bring on earlier heart attacks in older men, new research suggests. Robotic surgery on prostate cancer arrives in R.I. (The Providence Journal)
As Dr. Joseph F. Renzulli Jr. works at the robotic surgery console in the background, Dr. Harry Iannotti, center, another surgeon assisting in the operation at Miriam Hospital on June 1, monitors the procedure. Robotic surgery on prostate cancer arrives in R.I. (The Providence Journal)
PROVIDENCE ? In the operating room at Miriam Hospital, five people surround the patient, draped and unconscious on the table. But the surgeon who?s performing the operation ? Dr. Joseph F. Renzulli II ? isn?t among the five.
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