Is it worth the extra expense to undergo proton therapy for localized prostate cancer? Many patients and advocates tout the beam’s precision and minimal side effects. But there have been no clinical trials showing that proton therapy produces better results than the myriad less-expensive treatment options available to men. A scientific panel with the weight of the federal government behind it …
Archive for June, 2009
Predicting The Return Of Prostate Cancer: New Study Betters The Odds Of Success
Cancer experts say a study tracking 774 prostate cancer patients for a median of eight years has shown that a three-way combination of measurements has the best chance yet of predicting disease metastasis.
Doctors hail prostate cancer breakthrough as patient successfully treated by £2m pioneering surgical robot
Jeremy Lineham, 48, from Chichester, West Sussex, is the first patient in Europe to be operated on for prostate cancer using the £2million ‘da Vinci Si’ gadget.
Court orders B.C. tribunal to reconsider prostate exam discrimination case
VANCOUVER, B.C. – The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has been ordered to reconsider a complaint over the province’s refusal to fund prostate cancer screening tests for men.
Prostate cancer breakthrough hailed
Doctors are hailing a breakthrough in the fight against prostate cancer after a British patient was successfully treated for the illness by a pioneering surgical robot.
Subsidised prostate screening
AS PART of the Prostate Awareness Month, prostate screening will be cheaper by up to half this month at 200 clinics islandwide.
Prostate cancer: current evidence weighs against population screening
The recent release of two large randomized trials suggests that if there is a benefit of screening, it is, at best, small, says a new report in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
Early News About Potential Prostate Cancer Breakthrough
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic have reported dramatic preliminary results from two patients in a prostate cancer trial. Both patients were diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer that was initially considered inoperable.
Rowing: Crew reported missing in Rowing For Prostate charity race
Radio Sport’s Rowing For Prostate charity team has gone missing in the Indian Ocean with a crew of Kiwi-based men
VA Hospital Prostate Doc Defends His Work
At a field hearing of the US Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, the doctor at the center of the storm over dozens of botched prostate cancer treatments at Philadelphia’s VA Hospital says he followed standard procedures.