• Protein suppresses prostate cancer growth in lab tests

    Updated: 2011-01-31 17:58:00
    UK scientists have shown that a natural protein that occurs inside cells can suppress the growth of prostate cancer cells in the laboratory.

  • Pro Baseball Player Quits 'Dipping' After Coach's Cancer Diagnosis

    Updated: 2011-01-31 15:46:00
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  • NY Times – A Fighting Spirit Won’t Save Your Life……But

    Updated: 2011-01-28 19:38:24
    Last Tuesday’s New York Times had a commentary, A Fighting Spirit Won’t Save Your Life caused me to pause and think. The author, Richard Sloan, who is a professor of behavioral medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center, is attempting to debunk the belief that getting sick is a punishment for being a bad person [...]

  • Kudos to journalists who cover medical science with caveats, without hype

    Updated: 2011-01-28 19:04:16
    , Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org Kudos to journalists who cover medical science with caveats , without hype By Gary Schwitzer on January 28, 2011 1:04 PM No Comments No TrackBacks A couple of examples jumped out at me this week . Ron Winslow's piece in the Wall Street Journal , Novel Effort To Fight Cancer With Cancer . Cells Excerpts : In an audacious twist on the concept of fighting fire with fire , scientists have developed a provocative strategy of fighting cancer with cancer The story was about tumor cells encapsulated within seaweed-derived beads . It's too early to know whether or how well the beads work in people , but in studies involving laboratory mice as well as dogs and cats stricken with

  • Coaches vs. Cancer® Suits and Sneakers Awareness Weekend

    Updated: 2011-01-28 14:59:00
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  • FDA Denies BPH Drug for Prostate Cancer Prevention

    Updated: 2011-01-27 21:58:22
    WASHINGTON -- The FDA failed to approve an indication for the benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) drug dutasteride (Avodart) for use in prostate cancer prevention.

  • Mingle & mammograms parties - more incomplete info promoting screening

    Updated: 2011-01-27 20:37:33
    Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org Mingle mammograms parties more incomplete info promoting screening By Gary Schwitzer on January 27, 2011 2:37 PM No Comments No TrackBacks Some weeks like this one just unfold recurring themes just roll your way whether you're looking for them or not . I was not looking for imbalanced screening test promotions when this week began , but I've certainly had a number cross my desk . I just learned of a St . Paul Pioneer Press story that promoted the fact that Regina Medical Center's Mingle Mammograms' parties offer food , drink and spa treatments to ease the fears and discomfort associated with the procedure , and to encourage women to get screened every year . It's hospital

  • “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”

    Updated: 2011-01-27 18:47:14
    I just started reading one of the most interesting books I have recently enjoyed about the history of cancer. Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,” tells the narrative about the history of the search for ways to treat cancer and how it has been perceived. Dr. Mukherjee [...]

  • Health Care Reform Interview Get Answers to Your Questions on AOL Health

    Updated: 2011-01-27 17:48:13
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  • FDA: Breast Implants Maybe Linked to Lymphoma

    Updated: 2011-01-27 16:49:00
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  • NICE issues new guidance on preventing skin cancer

    Updated: 2011-01-27 16:49:00
    The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published new guidelines to help the NHS, local authorities and other organisations in their work to prevent skin cancer.

  • Prizes for Prostates, round 2: Hawking PSA tests by offering Atlanta Hawks hoops tix

    Updated: 2011-01-27 16:13:57
    , : Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org Prizes for Prostates , round 2 : Hawking PSA tests by offering Atlanta Hawks hoops tix By Gary Schwitzer on January 27, 2011 10:13 AM No Comments No TrackBacks We've seen it before . A couple of years ago , I wrote about Roswell Park's Prostate Club for Men offering prizes for prostates Buffalo Sabres hockey tickets or Buffalo Bills football tickets among other awards for men who showed proof that they talked to their doctor about prostate cancer . Now a bunch of Georgia radiotherapy centers and the Morehouse School of Medicine are among those promoting the Georgia Prostate Cancer Coalition and luring men in for PSA blood tests by offering them Atlanta Hawks basketball .

  • A view from Australia of an imbalanced public discussion on prostate cancer screening

    Updated: 2011-01-27 15:10:46
    Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org A view from Australia of an imbalanced public discussion on prostate cancer screening By Gary Schwitzer on January 27, 2011 9:10 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Australian journalist Melissa Sweet offers an alternative perspective to that given by an Australian politician who publicly encouraged men to be screened for prostate cancer based on his own personal experience . The politician wrote : It is an easy choice really . But Sweet countered : Actually , it's not an easy choice at all , and someone in his position , of influence and with access to high quality information , should know better than to reduce such a complex health decision to a simplistic punchline . She offers

  • Prostate Cancer & Sexuality

    Updated: 2011-01-27 13:37:32
    The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia is conducting an international survey of men’s experiences of sexual activity following treatment for prostate cancer. The aims of this survey include the following: * To learn more about how men adapt their sexual activities to prostate cancer treatments * [...]

  • Healing and Support – The Goal of A Cancer Support Group

    Updated: 2011-01-26 19:59:11
    On the heels of that terrible attack in Arizona there has been a lot of conversation in the media about healing. This has been a time of deep distress across the country with many images in the media of actions and reactions from all sorts of people. It is events like this one that points [...]

  • Osteoporosis screening recommendation: was there a delay and, if so, why?

    Updated: 2011-01-26 18:23:21
    : , , Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org Osteoporosis screening recommendation : was there a delay and , if so , why By Gary Schwitzer on January 26, 2011 12:23 PM No Comments No TrackBacks Last week , the U.S . Preventive Services Task Force USPSTF announced that it now recommends screening for osteoporosis in women ages 65 years and older and in younger women whose fracture risk is equal to or greater than that of a 65-year-old white woman who has no additional risk factors . The recommendation appeared in the January 18 online issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine and is also available on the USPSTF Web site But Dr . Kenny Lin , who resigned from the support team of the USPSTF and resigned from the

  • American Cancer Society's Daffodil Days is Underway

    Updated: 2011-01-26 15:50:00
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  • "Profiling" To Detect Abnormalities: Including Cancer

    Updated: 2011-01-26 13:26:44
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  • Faulty gene involved in cancer spread

    Updated: 2011-01-26 11:50:00
    Scientists at the University of East Anglia have identified a rogue gene that appears to hamper the body's efforts to prevent the spread of cancer.

  • Lung Cancer Goes Beyond Smoking

    Updated: 2011-01-25 19:36:00
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  • A New Strategey – Fight Cancer with Cancer – On The Horizon

    Updated: 2011-01-25 17:05:01
    Thinking out of the box, a new concept to fight cancer, including prostate cancer, has been developed. The strategy is simple, fight cancer with cancer! In a very small phase one trial researchers at the Rogosin Institute have taken encapsulated tumor cells from mice and made a bead from a seaweed-derived sugar called agarose. Then, [...]

  • Striving for Balance in Cancer Screening News

    Updated: 2011-01-25 14:31:06
    Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org Striving for Balance in Cancer Screening News By Gary Schwitzer on January 25, 2011 8:31 AM No Comments No TrackBacks This is my topic tomorrow January 26 when I speak to the annual Research and Policy Forum of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making in Washington , DC . Disclosure : the Foundation supports my HealthNewsReview.org project . You can see the program agenda and sign up for a free webcast of the full-day event . I'm not the only journalist on the program , as you'll see . Lauran Neergaard of the Associated Press and Shannon Brownlee will also speak at the Forum . I will try to show how the public discussion in this country about the benefits of

  • Denmark has 'world's highest cancer rates'

    Updated: 2011-01-25 11:26:00
    Denmark has the highest cancer rates in the world, with about 326 people out of every 100,000 developing cancer each year, an analysis of World Health Organisation (WHO) statistics suggests.

  • Health Care Debate Get Answers to Your Questions on AOL Health

    Updated: 2011-01-24 20:46:23
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  • Your Oncologist and Getting Their Cooperation In Using Out Of The Box Treatments

    Updated: 2011-01-24 20:00:37
    For those who do not know, I moderate an advanced prostate cancer on-line support group. Members are both men with advanced prostate cancer and many of their care givers. There was a recent conversation I want to share about specific “off label” and “out of the box” treatment strategies, specifically about oncologists not knowing about [...]

  • Cochrane Review questioning statins = another shared decision-making moment

    Updated: 2011-01-24 15:52:38
    Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org Cochrane Review questioning statins another shared decision-making moment By Gary Schwitzer on January 24, 2011 9:52 AM No Comments No TrackBacks A Cochrane Review published last week raises questions about the strength of the evidence for statin drugs to prevent heart problems in people at low risk . The summary states : Previous reviews of the effects of statins have highlighted their benefits in people with coronary artery disease . The case for primary prevention , however , is less . clear This current systematic review highlights the shortcomings in the published trials and we recommend that caution should be taken in prescribing statins for primary prevention among

  • Worldwide Cancer Rate Statistics

    Updated: 2011-01-24 15:42:00
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  • Abiraterone Acetate Now Available in the North East, United States

    Updated: 2011-01-23 19:35:30
    From Jan Manarite: To all, Many of you who have advanced prostate cancer may have been watching a drug in development called Abiraterone Acetate. It is not yet FDA approved, but trials look very good, and side effects appear to be very few. Most common side effects are fluid retention (30.5%), and low potassium (17.1%). [...]

  • Peer review via Twitter gives researchers headaches

    Updated: 2011-01-21 16:46:09
    Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org Peer review via Twitter gives researchers headaches By Gary Schwitzer on January 21, 2011 10:46 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Interesting column on the Nature.com Nature News site comments on how blogs and tweets are ripping papers apart within days of publication , leaving researchers unsure how to react . Excerpts : For many researchers , the pace and tone of this online review can be intimidating and can sometimes feel like an attack . How are authors supposed to respond to critiques coming from all directions Should they even respond at all Or should they confine their replies to the conventional , more deliberative realm of conferences and journals To bring some order to

  • Roger Ebert Dons New Facial Prosthesis

    Updated: 2011-01-21 15:08:00
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  • Changing ADT in the Treatment of Prostate Cancer – Are We Using It Correctly?

    Updated: 2011-01-21 13:13:48
    Patient advocates have long raised the question about the wisdom in using hormone therapy for extended periods of time. The introduction of intermittent scheduling of hormone therapy (ADT) has become more acceptable thanks to the questions raised by the community and the support of some oncologists who have been willing to think out of the [...]

  • Affects of ADT on A Spousal Caregiver of A Man with Advanced Prostate Cancer

    Updated: 2011-01-20 16:28:20
    We all know it, advanced prostate cancer not only affects the survivor, but it also affects his family. When diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer, the most common treatment is androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) which causes many side effects. These side effects include (but are not limited to) fatigue, nausea, hot flashes, pain, constipation and sexual [...]

  • Experimental melanoma drug shows promise in phase-III trial

    Updated: 2011-01-20 16:06:00
    Early results from a phase-III clinical trial of a new drug for advanced melanoma skin cancer indicate that it may help to improve survival.

  • Study identifies common gene fault in kidney cancer

    Updated: 2011-01-20 16:00:00
    A new study, part-funded by Cancer Research UK, has identified a gene that is faulty in one-third of patients with the most common form of kidney cancer - clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC).

  • Study: Small Breast Cancer Metastases May Not Affect Longevity

    Updated: 2011-01-20 15:49:00
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  • New cancer research centre launched in Glasgow

    Updated: 2011-01-20 00:01:00
    Cancer Research UK today (Thursday) launches a new Centre which will accelerate the pace of research in Glasgow and see the city become a world leader in the development of new treatments tailored for individual cancer patients.

  • See how Pfizer advertises Viagra abroad

    Updated: 2011-01-19 16:27:29
    Jim Edwards blogs, "You Won't Believe How They Advertise Viagra Abroad." He writes: "Pfizer (PFE) has always pushed the envelope in its advertising of Viagra in the U.S. -- it once launched an online video game in which users had to drive a "Viva Cruiser" to Las Vegas, picking up as many blue pills as possible on the way. But that pales next to the way the drug is promoted abroad. Caution: Some images aren't necessarily safe for work." Don't miss the photo slideshow.

  • Cancer Patient, Packers Fans Upset by Aaron Rodgers Criticism

    Updated: 2011-01-19 15:33:00
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  • Smoking could 'damage body within minutes'

    Updated: 2011-01-19 14:28:00
    Cigarette smoke causes levels of cancer-causing chemicals to build up in the bloodstream within minutes of inhaling, US scientists have found.

  • Smoking 'to blame for majority of gender gap in deaths'

    Updated: 2011-01-19 10:52:00
    Smoking accounts for up to 60 per cent of the gender gap in death rates across Europe, according to a new study by scientists at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow.

  • New campaign focuses on benefits of bowel screening

    Updated: 2011-01-19 00:24:00
    A new campaign aims to save lives by encouraging people to take part in the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.

  • 'Patchwork' of gene faults could help predict cervical cancer drug success

    Updated: 2011-01-19 00:01:00
    Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered that cervical cancer patients who have a mixture of different genetic faults in their tumour at the start of treatment may be more likely to relapse, according to a study published in the British Journal of Cancer today (Wednesday).

  • New England Science Writers blogging panel

    Updated: 2011-01-18 20:21:00
    Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog Gary Schwitzer Publisher , HealthNewsReview.org feedback healthnewsreview.org New England Science Writers blogging panel By Gary Schwitzer on January 18, 2011 2:21 PM No Comments No TrackBacks I'll be in Boston tomorrow as part of a panel discussion on blogging about health and science an event hosted by New England Science Writers , a professional organization of about 240 reporters , writers , freelancers , producers , bloggers , authors and . communicators I'll join this stellar group of bloggers on the : panel Daniel Carlat http : carlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com Ivan Oransky http : embargowatch.wordpress.com http : retractionwatch.wordpress.com Rachel Zimmerman http : commonhealth.wbur.org Moderated by Alison Bass http : alison-bass.blogspot.com

  • Cancer Research UK's Tim Hunt appointed to European research body

    Updated: 2011-01-18 17:26:00
    Sir Tim Hunt has been appointed to the Scientific Council, the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC).

  • Is Salvage Cryotherapy for Biopsy Proven Recurrent Prostate Cancer An Effective Treatment – Analyzing Disease Free Survival

    Updated: 2011-01-18 16:17:08
    Following failed radiation therapy (RT) the best treatment of recurrent prostate cancer remains controversial due to the lack of long-term data. Researchers reviewed the survival and establish prognostic indicators for men who received salvage cryotherapy for biopsy-proven recurrent prostate cancer. The researchers performed a retrospective analysis on men undergoing salvage cryotherapy at an academic urology [...]

  • Kohl's Cares, Dana Buchman Raise Funds for Cancer Research

    Updated: 2011-01-18 15:56:00
    , About Us Sponsored : by CTCA Cancer News Estrogen May Play Role in Rising Rates of Head , Neck Cancer Finding comes from study on the hormone's effect on cancerous and pre-cancerous cells Read full story Cancer News Categories Breast Cancer News Colorectal Cancer News Gynecologic Cancer News Hematological Cancer News Lung Cancer News Prostate Cancer News Pancreatic Cancer News Other Cancer News Message Board Cancers Bladder Cancer Bone Cancer Brain Cancer Breast Cancer Colon Cancer Esophageal Cancer Gynecological Cancers Kidney Cancer Leukemia Liver Cancer Lung Cancer Melanoma Pancreatic Cancer Prostate Cancer Stomach Cancer Testicular Cancer After Treatment Emotional Support Nutritional Concerns Side Effects Cancer Diagnosis Diagnostic Imaging Lab Tests Other Tests Cancer Nutrition Diet

  • Why PSA levels reflect prostate cancer progression

    Updated: 2011-01-17 11:42:24
    Scientists at the Duke Cancer Institute who have been studying prostate cancer cells for decades now think they know why PSA (prostate-specific antigen) levels reflect cancer progression. "This is the first demonstration of a mechanism that explains why PSA is a bad thing for a tumor to produce," said senior author Sal Pizzo, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Duke Department of Pathology. "I am willing to bet there is also a connection in malignant cell growth with this particular biological signaling mechanism happening in other types of cells"........

  • Tools for prostate cancer screening

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    Eventhough screening for prostate cancer with the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test in men ages 50-70 can detect the cancer before it becomes symptomatic, knowing whether screening is beneficial for these men is uncertain. Recent trials have shown small or no reductions in prostate cancer mortality among those screened. The small potential for benefit must be balanced against the more common and immediate downsides of increasing the chance of prostate cancer diagnosis and therapy-related complications........

  • What's your baseline PSA?

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    Men who have a baseline PSA value of 10 or higher the first time they are tested are up to 11 times more likely to die from prostate cancer than are men with lower initial values, as per Duke University Medical Center researchers. Researchers say the finding, appearing early online in the journal Cancer, supports routine, early prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening among healthy men with normal life expectancy a practice several studies have recently questioned........

  • Key pathway in end-stage prostate cancer blocked

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    Prostate cancer advances when tumors become resistant to hormone treatment, which is the standard therapy for patients, and begin producing their own androgens. Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have observed that blocking one of the enzymatic steps that allow the tumor to produce androgens could be the key in halting a tumor's growth........

  • How prostate cancer packs a punch

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    Some types of prostate tumors are more aggressive and more likely to metastasize than others. Nearly one-third of these aggressive tumors contain a small nest of particularly dangerous cells known as neuroendocrine-type cells. More rarely, some aggressive prostate tumors are made up entirely of neuroendocrine-type cells. The presence of neuroendocrine-type cancer cells is linked to a poor prognosis, but spotting these rare cells can be like finding a needle in a haystack. Now, as per a research findings reported in the July 13 issue of Cancer Cell, a team of researchers led by Ze'ev Ronai, Ph.D. at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) has identified a series of proteins that might make it easier for doctors to better diagnose the more metastatic forms of prostate cancer........

  • Prostate cancer patients who are disease free after 5 years

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    Patients with prostate cancer who receive brachytherapy and remain free of disease for five years or greater are unlikely to have a recurrence at 10 years, as per a research studyin the July 1 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)........

  • Heavy alcohol consumption and risk of prostate cancer

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    Consumption of 50 g or more of alcohol per day or four or more drinks per day for at least five days per week was linked to an elevated risk for prostate cancer. Furthermore, drinking 50 g or more of alcohol per day rendered therapy with finasteride ineffective. Scientists analyzed data from 2,129 participants with cancer and 8,791 participants without disease from the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial. They examined the relationships between risk for low- and high-grade prostate cancer and total alcohol consumption, types of alcoholic beverages and consumption pattern. Scientists also analyzed the effect of alcohol consumption on the effectiveness of finasteride based on the arms that patients were randomly assigned to in the original trial........

  • Polyphenols in red wine and green

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    In what could lead to a major advance in the therapy of prostate cancer, researchers now know exactly why polyphenols in red wine and green tea inhibit cancer growth. This new discovery, published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org), explains how antioxidants in red wine and green tea produce a combined effect to disrupt an important cell signaling pathway necessary for prostate cancer growth. This finding is important because it may lead to the development of drugs that could stop or slow cancer progression, or improve current therapys........

  • Surgery in men with low-risk prostate cancer

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    Johns Hopkins experts have found that men enrolled in an active surveillance program for prostate cancer that eventually needed surgery to remove their prostates fared just as well as men who opted to remove the gland immediately, except if a follow-up biopsy during surveillance showed high-grade cancer........

  • Study could improve treatments for prostate cancer

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have determined how two proteins mandatory for the initiation and development of prostate cancer interact at the molecular level, which could lead to improved therapys for the disease. One of the proteins, androgen receptor, is already an important drug target for prostate cancer. The other, steroid receptor coactivator-3 (SRC3), was originally identified for its role in the development of breast cancer. SCR3 has also been characterized as a key factor in the development of prostate cancer, but, until now, the exact relationship between androgen receptor and SCR3 has been unclear........

  • Lower detection of prostate cancer with PSA screening in US

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    Fewer prostate cancers were detected by prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in the U.S. than in a European randomized trial because of lower screening sensitivity, as per a new brief communication published online February 8 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute To compare the PSA screening performance in a clinical trial with that in a population setting, Elisabeth M. Wever, MSc, Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands, and his colleagues applied a microsimulation model developed for prostate cancer and screening to the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC)Rotterdam. The model was adapted by replacing the trial's demography parameters with U.S.-specific ones and the screening protocol with the frequency of PSA tests in the population. The natural progression of prostate cancer and the sensitivity (percentage of men correctly identified as having prostate cancer of those who have preclinical prostate cancer) of a PSA test followed by a biopsy were assumed to be the same in the US as in the trial........

  • How some prostate cancer cells become more aggressive?

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    Prostate cancer cells are more likely to spread to other parts of the body if a specific gene quits functioning normally, as per new data from scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Certain prostate cancer cells can be held in check by the DAB2IP gene. The gene's product, the DABIP protein, acts as scaffolding that prevents a number of other proteins involved in the progression of prostate cancer cells from over-activation. When those cells lose the DAB2IP protein, however, they break free and are able to metastasize, or spread, drastically increasing the risk of cancer progression in other organs as the cells travel through the bloodstream or lymph system........

  • Size and shape of the blood vessels predict prostate cancer behavior

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    A diagnosis of prostate cancer raises the question for patients and their physicians as to how the tumor will behave. Will it grow quickly and aggressively and require continuous therapy, or slowly, allowing treatment and its risks to be safely delayed? The answer may lie in the size and shape of the blood vessels that are visible within the cancer, as per research led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute in collaboration with the Harvard School of Public Health........

  • Prostate biopsy is not always necessary

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that some elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in men appears to be caused by a hormone normally occurring in the body, and are not necessarily a predictor of the need for a prostate biopsy........

  • Call to reconsider screening for breast cancer and prostate cancer

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    Twenty years of screening for breast and prostate cancer - the most diagnosed cancer for women and men - have not brought the anticipated decline in deaths from these diseases, argue experts from the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in an opinion piece reported in the "Journal of the American Medical Association"........

  • MicroRNA suppresses prostate cancer stem cells

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    A small slice of RNA inhibits prostate cancer metastasis by suppressing a surface protein usually found on prostate cancer stem cells. A research team led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported today in an advance online publication at Nature Medicine "Our findings are the first to profile a microRNA expression pattern in prostate cancer stem cells and also establish a strong rationale for developing the microRNA miR-34a as a new therapy option for prostate cancer," said senior author Dean Tang, Ph.D., professor in MD Anderson's Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis........

  • Prostate cancer is treated differently

    Updated: 2011-01-17 02:37:04
    Scientists at Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego and his colleagues have observed that prostate cancer therapys varied significantly between county hospitals and private providers. Patients treated in county hospitals are more likely to undergo surgery while patients treated in private facilities tend to receive radiation or hormone treatment. These findings were published online by the journal Cancer on January 25........

  • Cancer Research UK and Cancer Research Technology establish team of stem cell experts to beat cancer

    Updated: 2011-01-14 11:31:00
    Cancer Research UK and its commercial arm Cancer Research Technology (CRT), have established a team of scientists with expertise in cancer stem cell research to identify new targets to detect, monitor and treat cancer.

  • Cancer Research UK and AstraZeneca collaborate to trial combinations of new cancer drugs

    Updated: 2011-01-13 00:01:00
    Cancer Research UK's drug development office (DDO) has signed a Strategic Combinations Alliance with AstraZeneca to take combinations of experimental cancer drugs into early phase clinical trials.

  • HPV testing to be included in NHS cervical screening programme

    Updated: 2011-01-12 10:49:00
    The inclusion of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing in the current NHS Cervical Screening Programme from April 2011 has been confirmed in the programme's annual review, which was published on Friday (January 7th).

  • New cancer strategy focuses on earlier diagnosis and improved access to treatment

    Updated: 2011-01-12 10:16:00
    The coalition government has published its new cancer strategy, which aims to save 5,000 lives a year by facilitating earlier diagnosis and improving access to life-saving therapies.

  • Behavioral Tx Cuts Urinary Leakage After Prostate Removal

    Updated: 2011-01-12 04:02:19
    For patients with persistent urinary incontinence after prostatectomy, the mean number of weekly episodes dropped by more than half with behavioral therapy and exercises in a randomized trial, researchers said.

  • Walking May Lower Mortality Risk in Prostate Cancer

    Updated: 2011-01-09 23:05:54
    Prostate cancer survivors can literally walk themselves to a lower risk of dying of the disease -- with some men achieving an almost 50% lower mortality risk, data from a large cohort study showed.

  • Diet Plans News and Diet Reviews That's Fit

    Updated: 2011-01-06 21:00:37
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  • Faulty gene behind skin cancer also triggers spread

    Updated: 2011-01-06 00:01:00
    CANCER RESEARCH UK-funded scientists have discovered that skin cancer can spread to the lungs when a gene in an important cell communication pathway is blocked. The research is published in Cancer Cell.

  • Detecting esophageal cancer with light

    Updated: 2011-01-05 20:58:19
    A tiny light source and sensors at the end of an endoscope may provide a more accurate way to identify pre-malignant cells in the lining of the esophagus. Developed by biomedical engineers at Duke University and successfully tested on patients during a clinical trial at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the device holds the promise of being a less invasive method for testing patients suspected of having Barrett's esophagus, a change in the lining of the esophagus due to acid reflux. Acid reflux occurs when stomach acid splashes, or refluxes, up into the esophagus........

  • Parallels Between Cancers, Infection Suppression

    Updated: 2011-01-04 16:52:56
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