Prostate News Archive
26-Oct-2011
Gen-Probe prostate cancer test could dampen controversy
San Diego?s Gen-Probe thinks its experimental prostate cancer screening test will help to quell the controversy swirling around the widely used PSA blood test since a government panel said it shouldn't be used on healthy men. Fish oil supplements 'can slow prostate cancer growth'
Scientists in the U.S. made the discovery after testing prostate tissue samples taken from men with the disease. Utah doctors: Get that prostate cancer screening
Utah doctors: Get that prostate cancer screening By kirsten stewart The Salt Lake Tribune Published Oct 24, 2011 07:24AM MDT Were it not for a touch of the flu last year, Richard Scoville might never have known he was overdue for a blood test that, along with a biopsy, revealed he had prostate cancer ? the fast-growing kind. He might have been spared the hormone injections, which he says felt ... Prostate testing's dark side: Men who were harmed
Terry Dyroff's PSA blood test led to a prostate biopsy that didn't find cancer but gave him a life-threatening infection.
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