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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 survival. [...] Source: Annals of Surgical Oncology; Medline It may be still in the early lab stages -how early? Well they are still testing the technique upon mice with tumors, however, researchers have found that freezing breast cancer tumors (cryoablation) helps to stop the spread of breast cancer. Not only did the rapid freezing, through application of a cold [...] 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 American Cancer [...] Source: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition What do these three things have in common? Well, men who are non-smokers and who eat more soy MAY have a lower risk of getting lung cancer than other men. Okay, the non-smoking part may be an obvious one, but the soy? Soybeans contain natural compounds called isoflavanones. Isoflavanones mimic estrogen, [...] Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Rates of new diagnoses and rates of death from all cancers combined declined significantly in the most recent time period for men and women overall and for most racial and ethnic populations in the United States. The drops are driven largely by declines in rates of new cases and [...] Sources: Journal of the National Cancer Institute; BBC Health A brief preface: testing of drugs to see if they are effective in treating cancers is first done by researchers in laboratories on “cell-lines” grown in the laboratory. However while scientists can duplicate cells they still need original cells from human patients to start with. Following a review [...] 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 that in [...] 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 and [...] Source: BBC Health; British Medical Journal A recent Swedish study (Yes, where the candy fish come from) comparing PSA (Prostate Specific Antigent) Test results of 540 men before they were eventually diagnosed with prostate cancer and 1,000 healthy men failed to determine the point where a PSA Test was a diagnostic predictor of prostate cancer. What [...] You MAY have a medical malpractice case if: _ You or a loved one were significantly injured from a surgical error or complication of surgery _ You or a loved one were significantly injured from improper medical care or treatment _ You or a loved one were diagnosed with breast, ovarian, prostate or other cancer after a year [...] |
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