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Considerations related to surgery as first-line treatment of higher-risk prostate cancers
15 hours ago ago from prostate cancer blog
An oncology group at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) focused of the use of surgery as opposed to external beam radiation therapy as first-line therapy in patients believed to have locally advanced forms of prostate cancer. The group went on to talk about the fact that urologists need to become more acceptant of the reality that radical prostatectomy (by any technique) is a very difficult operation to learn to do well and ...
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12 hours ago ago from aragonesque.com
It is a fact. An American male will be diagnosed with prostate cancer every three minutes today. Each person will then need to make a choice regarding the course of action to take. It is both a critical and tough one. Not for the reasons you would expect. But more due to all the good options you have got when it comes to dealing with prostate cancer caught early enough. With the latest treatment on prostate cancer comes a range choices ...
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4 hours ago ago from The Portland 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Portland, OR
A recent study has revealed a racial disparity in prostate cancer treatment of patients in the U.S. The study, conducted in 2007 and reported in the Journal of Urology earlier this year, was led by Dr. Kathryn E. Richert-Boe, of Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Portland, Oregon. It's objectives were to determine whether differences existed in prostate cancer treatment received by white and African American men at a health maintenance ...
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12 hours ago ago from A Healthy Heart
Prostate cancer patients who are treated with androgen deprivation therapy have a higher risk of having diabetes, heart attacks, and other cardiovascular problems than men who have not undergone this hormone therapy. View full post on MyHeartCentral.com Latest Heart Disease News This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 at 5:07 pm and is filed under The Heart . You can follow any responses to this entry ...
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21 hours ago ago from The Cancer Foundation For The World
Patients with advanced prostate cancer are often treated with hormones, but when the tumours start growing again they have more and different blood vessels, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. This discovery paves the way for new treatments for hormone-resistant prostate cancer Read Full Article
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FDA panel votes down new use for OSI cancer drug
13 hours ago ago from U.S. News
FDA panel votes down new use for OSI cancer drug WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health advisers recommended Wednesday against expanding approval of an OSI Pharmaceuticals lung cancer drug to patients who are already responding to chemotherapy. The drugmaker's shares fell almost 7 percent in afternoon trading. A spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration said the agency's panel of cancer experts voted 12-1 against using Tarceva as a ...
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