Coffee good for your prostate? Who knew? Source: Wall Street Journal; National Institutes of Health (NIH). After years of being viewed as a potential health problem, coffee is fighting back and this time it’s kicking your prostate in the…well…
A clue to prostate cancer prevention
Source: New England Journal of Medicine; BBC Health Dutasteride (Avodart according to GalxoSmithKline) is used to treat an enlarged prostate. It works by blocking the production of a natural substance that enlarges the prostate. This shrinks the prostate, relieves symptoms of BPH (benign prostatic hypertrophy), such as frequent and difficult urination, and decreases the chance [...]
New drugs and tests for Prostate Cancer.
Source: Annual Genitourinary Cancers Symposium; Medline 192,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer annually. 27,000 cases are terminal. Currently under investigation is a new chemotherapy drug -Cabazitaxel which is being administered in conjunction with Mitoxantrone (a commonly used drug f0r prostate cancer). Men receiving this chemo cocktail (no pun intended) had a 30% increase in [...]
Revised Screening Guidelines for Prostate Cancer
Source: American Cancer Society Men should discuss the benefits and risks of prostate cancer screening with their doctors, according to revised prostate cancer screening guidelines from the American Cancer Society (ACS). Yes. That's what they said. Not much of a guideline is it? Okay they say a little more. But really, only a little. The [...]
Gene test to aid Cancer treatment
Source: BBC Health; The Lancet Oncology It is a fact of chemotherapy (chemical treatment for cancer) that some patients simply don't respond to medications. Or that they stop responding over time. With more than 45,400 women diagnosed with breast cancer every year, scientists have been furiously trying to decode our genetic patterns for reasons such [...]
Coffee good for your prostate? Who knew?
Source: Wall Street Journal; National Institutes of Health (NIH) After years of being viewed as a potential health problem, coffee is fighting back and this time it's kicking your prostate in the...well... So this must be why my urologist asked me how much coffee I drink this morning. (Yes I saw a urologist, more on [...]
Adjuvant Radiotherapy as Standard of Care for Prostate Cancer?
Source: Journal of Urology; Medscape Medical News Research published in the Journal of Urology appears to demonstrate that adjuvant radiotherapy (radiation treatment) within 18 weeks of surgery significantly reduced the risk of recurrence and metastasis of prostate cancer. Additional associations were reduced need for hormonal therapy and increased survival. This compared with the typical "watch [...]
Prostate Cancer and PSA Testing
Source: The American Urological Society The American Urological and American Cancer Societies and the American College of Physicians, recommend prostate cancer screening at age 50 for even healthy males. For African-American males and those with a strong family history of prostate cancer, at age 40. PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) is an enzyme that naturally occurs [...]
Philadelphia Veterans and Botched Prostate Cancer Treatment!
In a case of truly adding insult to injury, physicians at the Philadelphia Veterans' Hospital made significant errors in treating veterans with prostate cancer. A common treatment is the implantation of radioactive "seeds" locally in the prostate to attack cancer cells forming tumors. However, in at least 92 of 116 such procedures, the team's aim [...]