16 January 2012
Treatment with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) does not significantly increase the risk of cardiovascular mortality according to evaluation of mortality data in a large registry of men treated for prostate cancer. ADT is commonly used to treat prostate cancer. Some studies have shown that it may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, but other studies have [...]
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09 January 2012
Researchers have found that over half of men undergoing radical prostatectomy have unrealistic expectations about some of the outcomes.
Daniela Wittmann, MSW, and colleagues at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan found that despite a pre-operative education program, 61 percent of men expected the same or better sexual function a year [...]
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02 January 2012
According to a new report, analysis of 20 to 24 biopsy cores is superior to analysis of 12 to 14 cores for detecting prostate cancer in men who’ve had a normal prostate biopsy in the past. J. Stephen Jones, M.D., from Cleveland Clinic, Ohio said, “We have shown that transrectal saturation biopsy is as easy and [...]
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26 December 2011
A small Australian clinical study showed that sexual function improved significantly and quickly in obese men with type 2 diabetes after weight loss with reduced-calorie diets. For 31 men who lost five percent to ten percent of their body weight in eight weeks, erectile function, sexual desire, and urinary symptoms all improved significantly. According to [...]
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19 December 2011
Researchers have developed a vaccine that destroys even advanced prostate tumors without any side effects. The vaccine has only been shown to work in mice, but the researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota and at the University of Leeds in England hope that the treatment can someday work in humans. The [...]
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12 December 2011
According to data from a prospective cohort study by Richard Valicenti, MD, of the University of California Davis and colleagues, sexual function declines in the first two years after external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) for prostate cancer but stabilizes thereafter. Pretreatment sexual function was the strongest predictor of sexual function at any time after EBRT. [...]
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05 December 2011
About a year ago, a major retrospective study showed that men prescribed erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs, such as sildenafil (Viagra) had markedly higher rates of sexually transmitted diseases. This relationship, however, could have more to do with behavior than with ED drug use. Anupam Jena, MD, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and colleagues analyzed [...]
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28 November 2011
A recent study at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Harvard School of Public Health found that an association between brisk walking and lowered risk of prostate cancer progression in a study of 1,455 men in the U.S. diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. The research team found that men who [...]
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21 November 2011
Previously, radical prostatectomy series have shown an inverse relationship between prostate size and high grade cancer. It was suggested that smaller sized prostates arise in a low androgen environment, which enables development of more aggressive cancer. A recent study by a team of authors from Stanford University School of Medicine in the Journal [...]
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14 November 2011
A new study finds that after hospitals in Wisconsin received robotic surgery technology, the number of prostate removals there doubled within three months. In contrast, the number of prostate surgeries remained the same at hospitals that did not purchase this new two-million dollar technology. This finding was published in the peer-reviewed journal Cancer. It [...]
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