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Prostate News Archive

25-Mar-2011

  • Short Course of Hormone Therapy Boosts Prostate Cancer Survival: Study

    THURSDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- Just six months of hormone therapy, along with radiation, cuts the risk of dying from locally advanced prostate cancer in half when compared to radiation alone, researchers report.


  • Prostate cancer fight has new local homebase

    Men suffering from prostate cancer in Nova Scotia now have a place to turn to.prostate Cancer Canada opened a new office in Halifax yesterday, hoping men will come for support."Men have a very hard time talking about prostate cancer," Helen Vassos, executive vice-president of PCC, said at yesterday's opening, which was the first for Atlantic Canada."It's important that survivors know we have ...


  • Prostate Cancer Spreads To Bones By Overtaking The Home Of Blood Stem Cells

    Like bad neighbors who decide to go wreck another community, prostate and breast cancer usually recur in the bone, according to a new University of Michigan study. Now, U-M researchers believe they know why. Prostate cancer cells specifically target and eventually overrun the bone marrow niche, a specialized area for hematopoietic stem cells, which make red and white blood cells, said Russell ...


  • Prostate cancer breakthrough shows 50% cut in fatalities

    While the method of treatment - androgen deprivation therapy (also known as NADT) - is not new, changes in the way it can be harnessed are significant.


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