Prostate News Archive
03-Oct-2008
New catheter-less technique may ease the pain and discomfort of prostate cancer recovery (EurekAlert!)
( New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College ) To ease the pain of recovery following prostate cancer surgery, physician-scientists have developed an innovative and patient-friendly approach that eliminates the use of a penile urinary catheter. The new patentable technique, used in conjunction with robotic prostatectomy -- the surgical removal of ... Raised risk of prostate cancer in Black men (News-Medical-Net)
Black men living in England are three times more likely to get prostate cancer than White men and tend to be diagnosed five years younger, researchers have found. Missoula hospital gets robot for prostate surgery Posted on Oct. 1 (Missoulian)
Last October, Missoula?s Jim Van Fossen traveled to Ohio for prostate surgery. The procedure could easily have been done in Missoula, but the James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University offered something Missoula didn?t n the da Vinci robot. Diabetes And Mortality In Men With Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer: RTOG 92-02 (Medical News Today)
UroToday.com - In the September 10, 2008 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Dr. Matthew Smith and his colleagues reported on the association of diabetes mellitus (DM) and death in men treated for prostate cancer (CaP) with radiotherapy and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). The authors cited a meta-analysis whereby an inverse relationship between diabetes and CaP diagnosis was noted. GCHS Students Raise Awareness Of Prostate Cancer (Garden City News)
September is prostate Cancer Awareness Month and, on September 19th, students at Garden City High School, only a few of whom are pictured here, participated in the "Wear Blue for the Men You Love" Integrated Medical Foundation prostate Cancer Awareness Project to help raise awareness about the disease.
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