Prostate News Archive
19-Jun-2007
Prostate Stem Cell Antigen As A Marker For Bladder Cancer (Medical News Today)
UroToday.com - The work of Benjamin T Shurtleff, MD, and scientists from UCLA regards prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA), a homologue of the Ly-6/Thy-1 family of cell surface antigens. Its expression in normal tissues is largely prostate-specific, but PSCA is overexpressed in a majority of human transitional cell carcinoma (TCC). [click link for full article] Prostate therapy's delay sets off a fight (Boston Globe)
WASHINGTON ? When federal regulators delayed approving a promising new prostate cancer therapy, patients and the drug?s advocates reacted with more than disappointment. Prostate specific antigen: A review of PSA use in screening for prostate cancer (EurekAlert!)
Screening for prostate cancer using prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing continues to be problematic. Even though it is unproven whether population-wide screening with PSA can reduce death, illness or disability from prostate cancer, testing has become common in North America. "Drive Against Prostate Cancer" Mobile Screening Vehicle to be Showcased at Annual CRI Awards (Newswise)
The nationally touring "Drive Against Prostate Cancer" mobile medical screening vehicle will be on display for public tour during the Cancer Research Institute's 21st annual awards dinner, Tuesday, June 26, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., outside New York City's Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Plaza. Ask Dr. H | A simpler procedure for enlarged prostate (Philly.com)
Question: I saw a urologist because of an enlarged prostate that's making me urinate every two hours at night. He is advising me to have a new prostate procedure called "PVP." I'd never heard of it. Is it better than a "TURP"?
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