Prostate News Archive
30-Sep-2006
Prostate Cancer Appears Cured in 89 Percent of Men Treated with IMRT (Senior Journal)
September 27, 2006 - The vast majority of prostate cancer victims ? 89 percent - treated with high-dose, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) are alive and show no evidence of the cancer eight years after the treatment. Long-Term Outcomes For Prostate Cancer Show IMRT Curative: 89 Percent Disease-free 8 Years Later (Medical News Today)
Results from the largest study of men with prostate cancer treated with high-dose, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) show that the majority of patients remain alive with no evidence of disease after an average follow-up period of eight years. The 561 prostate cancer patients treated with IMRT at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center were classified into prognostic risk groups. [click Prostate cancer screening event was a success (The Kentucky Standard)
The University of Louisville Kentucky Cancer Program (KCP) is grateful to Nelson County-City of Bardstown for helping to make the recent free prostate cancer screening, Drive Across Kentucky, a huge success. Good Outcome for Prostate Radiation (RedNova)
U.S. prostate-cancer patients treated with high-dose, intensity modulated radiation therapy, or IMRT, results in most patients alive eight year later. Free Prostate Cancer Screening (Garden City News)
Mercy Medical Center is sponsoring free prostate cancer screenings. The screenings will take place on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in St. Anne's Center. Hospital to host prostate cancer seminar (Asbury Park Press)
A seminar on prostate cancer will be held Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Ocean Medical Center on Jack Martin Boulevard. The free seminar, "Life After prostate Symposium,'' will include presentations from doctors and prostate cancer survivors. The session ends with a question-and-answer session. The seminar will be held at the hospital's east wing conference center. To register, call (800) 560-9990
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