Prostate News Archive
12-Jun-2007
Prostate Cancer Treatment Can Speed Heart Attacks (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
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. Startling statistics: Prostate cancer affects one in six U.S. men (The Sentinel)
Editor?s note: This is one of several stories relating to men?s health issues that Sentinel health reporter Tyler Heath will report this week, which i... Prostate cancer therapy may worsen heart threat (Los Angeles Times)
Men at high cardiac risk should remedy those problems before tumor treatment starts, researchers say. Standard treatment for prostate cancer ? shutting off the body's production of androgen hormones ? can shorten by 2 1/2 years the lives of men who are at high risk of developing heart disease, Boston researchers reported Friday. 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]
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