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27-Mar-2011
Short Course of Hormone Therapy Boosts Prostate Cancer Survival: Study
Title: Short Course of Hormone Therapy Boosts prostate Cancer Survival: Study Category: Health News Created: 3/24/2011 8:05:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 3/25/2011 Hospital offering new prostate cancer treatment
Alamance Regional Medical Center is offering a new treatment for prostate cancer that is expected to prolong a patient's life.The immunotherapy treatment, which involves using the patient's white blood cells and incubating them with a prostate-specific antigen before injecting them... 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 - Rural Australian Men Less Likely To Survive
Survival rates for prostate cancer are poorer for rural men than urban men, according to a study in the Medical Journal of Australia. The study by Associate Professor Peter Baade, from Cancer Council Queensland, and colleagues, showed an overall increase in rates of prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening and radical prostatectomy, reductions in mortality and improvements in survival ...
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