Prostate News Archive
25-May-2008
Texas Rangers broadcaster Tom Grieve to have prostate surgery (Dallas Morning News)
CLEVELAND ? Rangers broadcaster Tom Grieve, who has been with the club in some capacity for almost every moment since it moved to Arlington in 1972, will have surgery to remove a cancerous prostate and miss at least two weeks of broadcasts. Texas Rangers broadcaster Tom Grieve to have prostate surgery (Dallas Morning News)
Texas Rangers broadcaster Tom Grieve will undergo prostate surgery on June 9. Grieve, 60, who has served for 14 years as a Rangers TV analyst after a long career as a player and member of the team's front office, plans to be out of the broadcast booth for two to three weeks following the surgery. Drug blocks prostate cancer in mice (UPI)
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 23 (UPI) -- An experimental drug has blocked the progression of prostate cancer in mice with an aggressive form of the disease, Ohio State University researchers said. Monitoring blood flow helps improve prostate biopsies, researchers report (PhysOrg)
Using a special ultrasound technique to spot areas of blood flow in the prostate gland may substantially reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies, according to a new study by urologists and radiologists at the Jefferson Prostate Diagnostic Center and the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia. The researchers found that biopsies targeted to areas of increased blood flow in the ... GTX says prostate cancer drug trial will continue (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Biopharmaceutical company GTx Inc. said Friday an independent group recommended that a late-stage trial of a prostate cancer drug continue after reviewing an interim analysis of the drug's effectiveness.
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