Posts Tagged ‘Prostate’
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Louise Chang, MD
July 26, 2010 — More than 75% of men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer undergo aggressive treatment — either complete removal of the prostate or radiation therapy, according to a new study.
That’s true, the researchers found, even in men with a low level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) of under 4 nanograms per [...]
July 1, 2010 — Screening men for prostate cancer cut mortality rates by about half in a large study, researchers report.
The screening test under investigation is called a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, which measures blood levels of a protein produced by prostate gland cells and is a marker for prostate cancer. PSA is considered a [...]
June 17, 2010 — A new treatment for advanced prostate cancer that hasn’t responded to other treatments has been approved by the FDA.
Called Jevtana (cabazitaxel), the chemotherapy drug is used in combination with the steroid prednisone and has been found to lengthen survival by nearly 2 and 1/2 months in men who have run out [...]
The findings were presented Tuesday at the American Association for Cancer Research’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
In the first report, a team led by Dr. Jing Ma, an associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, found that obesity and smoking may not be risk factors for developing prostate cancer, but they [...]
