Prostate Cancer : News

A simple blood test screening for a panel of biomarkers can accurately predict whether a patient who has had prostate cancer surgery will have a recurrence or spread of the disease.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The test commonly used to screen men for prostate cancer may be more likely to miss tumors in obese men, a new study suggests.

In a study of 535 men in a free prostate cancer screening program, researchers found that obese men were more likely to have relatively low levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA), even when their prostate findings were abnormal.

PSA levels in the blood typically rise when a man has prostate cancer, so PSA testing is often used to screen for the disease. Men with a high PSA level can then have further testing to get a definitive diagnosis.

Two and a half weeks after undergoing prostate cancer surgery, Texas Rangers TV analyst Tom Grieve is eager to return to the broadcast booth tonight as the Rangers host the Philadelphia Phillies.

Researchers at the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers at The City College of New York have conducted time-resolved fluorescence measurement and optical imaging studies that demonstrate the efficacy ...

The mayor of Woodbury is battling prostate cancer. Bill Hargis has been the St. Paul suburb's mayor since 1993.

A new prostate cancer treatment with fewer side effects may one day help reduce hospital waiting lists and give patients a better quality of life.

Osteoporosis is a disease that weakens bones, causing them to break easily. Usually it affects older women, but now it's become a growing problem for men.

The Sandusky County Relay for Life has surpassed its fundraising goal for this year.

Austria's Medical University Graz said Wednesday the University Hospital would start using a new genetic urine test in July to diagnose for people who might encounter prostate cancer.

The city of Portland announced Friday City Manager Joe Gray is going on medical leave after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.

If you change your lifestyle, you change your genes. You can't get different genes, but how you act can change how your genes act, report Dean Ornish, MD, and colleagues at the University of California, San ...

Protox Therapeutics Inc. , a leader in the development of receptor targeted fusion proteins, announced today that following a positive opinion from the European Medicines Evaluation Agency's Committee for ...