Prostate News Archive
27-Oct-2007
Guatemalan president had prostate cancer (Miami Herald)
Guatemalan President Oscar Berger on Friday revealed one of the best-kept secrets of his election campaign: his prostate cancer. ''I was operated on and I'm still alive,'' Berger told Radio Sonora. Patient recruitment begins in prostate cancer study: Yale Cancer Centre (PharmaBiz)
Yale Cancer Centre announced that their researchers have begun recruiting 60 men for a clinical trial investigating an experimental new drug, oral phenoxodiol, as a potential first line therapy for prostate cancer. The study is funded by Yale Cancer Centre. Localized Prostate Cancer Options --- HealthandAge (HealthandAge)
There's still some uncertainty about the management of localized prostate cancer. Clinical studies to date have mostly dealt with short-term outcomes, but there's very little on long-term results of different forms of treatment.
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