Prostate News Archive
05-May-2008
Driving Against Prostate Cancer (FOX 28 South Bend)
Driver's of the Cannonball were not only driving to race, they were driving to support different charities, and one team was driving against prostate cancer. Is Prostate Specific Antigen Velocity Selective For Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer In Screening? (Medical News Today)
UroToday.com - With the knowledge that screening for prostate cancer will lead to over detection and subsequent over treatment, the call for tests discriminating between non aggressive and aggressive prostate cancer is growing. If pre-biopsy data could make this distinction, a lot of unnecessary biopsies would be spared. Initial Extended Transrectal Prostate Biopsy-Are More Prostate Cancers Detected With 18 Cores Than With 12 Cores? (Medical News Today)
UroToday.com - Increasing the number of prostate biopsy cores from 10 to 18 is reported to increase the prostate cancer (CaP) detection rate from 30% to 41%. In the April 2008 issue of the Journal of Urology, Dr. When To Wait And When To Treat? New Program Will Search For Biomarkers In Men With Prostate Cancer To Help Find An ... (Medical News Today)
Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have a lead role in a new public/private partnership to create the first systematic surveillance program of men with prostate cancer to look for biological clues to help determine when to wait and when to treat the disease. The project was announced by the Canary Foundation and the National Cancer Institute.
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