Prostate cancer diagnosis raises suicide risk
February 5, 2010 on 12:00 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsA diagnosis of prostate cancer can be unnerving enough to up a mans odds for either suicide or fatal heart attack, new research indicates.
Thats probably true for other cancer diagnoses, Mucci added, and her group now plans to do a similar study of breast and colon cancer patients. The group started with prostate cancer, she said, to assess whether the widespread use of screening using the prostate-specific antigen test has made a difference.
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Cancer Patients at Greater Risk of Suicide, Heart Attack
February 3, 2010 on 8:00 pm | In Uncategorized | No CommentsGetting a cancer diagnosis is a stressful and shocking experience. But is it stressful enough to increase a patient’s risk of suicide and heart attack?
Overall, the authors point out, the absolute risk of suicide was small; among the more than 340,000 cases studied, 148 men died of suicide. But the relative risk was still quite large, says study co-author Lorelei Mucci, an epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
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Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Raises Suicide Risk
February 3, 2010 on 7:00 pm | In Uncategorized | No CommentsA diagnosis of prostate cancer can be unnerving enough to up a mans odds for either suicide or fatal heart attack, new research indicates.
Thats probably true for other cancer diagnoses, Mucci added, and her group now plans to do a similar study of breast and colon cancer patients. The group started with prostate cancer, she said, to assess whether the widespread use of screening using the prostate-specific antigen test has made a difference.
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Hormone drugs for prostate cancer may hurt heart
February 2, 2010 on 8:00 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsProstate cancer treatments that cut off the supply of male hormone raise cholesterol, worsen blood sugar and make men fatter and thus likely raise the risk of heart attack, too, doctors said on Monday.
The American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, American Urological Association and American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology joined forces to write the advisory.
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Scanner helps doctors pinpoint prostate cancer
January 28, 2010 on 9:00 pm | In Uncategorized | No CommentsU.S. researchers have found a way to pinpoint where in the prostate a tumor may be hiding by using a imaging technique that measures the chemical composition of tissues.
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston used magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which analyzes the biochemistry rather than the structure of tissues
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Genetic factors key to prostate cancer death risk
January 28, 2010 on 6:00 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsA combination of three genetic abnormalities has a dramatic impact on how long prostate cancer patients are likely to live, researchers said on Wednesday, and gene tests could help doctors decide on the best treatments.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and the second highest cause of male cancer-related deaths across the world, killing around 254,000 men a year.
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Prostate Cancer Care Varies By Hospital Type
January 26, 2010 on 7:00 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsThe type of treatment received by prostate cancer patients is influenced by the kind of health care facility where they receive care, a new U.S. study has found.
In the study, Dr. J. Kellogg Parsons, of the Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego and the VA Medical Center San Diego, along with colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, analyzed the care given to 559 prostate cancer patients enrolled in a state-funded program for low-income patients.
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Gene linked to aggressive prostate cancer
January 17, 2010 on 1:00 pm | In Uncategorized | No CommentsIn a first, scientists have identified a genetic variant linked to aggressive prostate cancer that could improve diagnosis and treatments for the disease, researchers said Monday.
“Although the genetic marker currently has limited clinical utility, we believe it has the potential to one day be used in combination with other clinical variables and genetic markers to predict which men have aggressive prostate cancer at a stage when the disease is still curable.
Experimental Drug May Help in Brain, Prostate Cancers
January 14, 2010 on 12:00 pm | In Uncategorized | No CommentsAn experimental drug called imetelstat shows promise in treating glioblastoma brain cancer and prostate cancer, according to the results of preclinical studies in which the drug was tested on human prostate cancer cells and in rodents with glioblastoma.
The glioblastoma study is published in the January issue of
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Antibody finds, wipes out prostate cancer: study
January 12, 2010 on 6:00 pm | In Uncategorized | No CommentsUS researchers have found an antibody that hunts down prostate cancer cells in mice and can destroy the killer disease even in an advanced stage, a study showed Monday.
When injected in mice, F77 bonded with tissue where prostate cancer was the primary cancer in almost all cases (97 percent) and in tissue cores where the cancer had metastasized around 85 percent of the time.
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