Prostate News Archive
06-Nov-2011
Prostate surgery risks lower at academic hospitals
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A man's risk of complications from prostate cancer surgery may be slightly lower if it's done at a hospital connected to a medical school, a new study suggests. New Drug Improves Prostate Cancer Survival
An experimental prostate cancer drug from Medivation Inc helped patients live longer in a late-stage study Prostate Cancer Discovered in Ancient Egyptian Mummy
Researchers with the Imagens Médicas Integradas (IMI) in Lisbon, Portugal believe that they have discovered the oldest ever case of prostate cancer in Egypt, thanks to scans performed on a 2,250-year-old mummy at the city's National Archaeology Museum. The discovery, which has been detailed in the International Journal of Paleopathology and was also the topic of a Thursday article by Simon ... Adding Radiotherapy Boosts Prostate Cancer Survival
Adding radiotherapy to hormone drugs for prostate cancer patients significantly improves survival compared with hormone treatment alone, and the combination could save many lives if it were made standard practice
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