Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. While many prostate cancers grow slowly and remain localized, other types are aggressive and spread quickly. That's why Dr. Carlos ...
Multidisciplinary care in prostate cancer involves urologic, radiation, and medical oncologists, optimizing treatment through a collaborative approach. Clinical trials may benefit patients with ...
Prostate cancer overtook breast cancer as the most commonly diagnosed cancer in England earlier this year. NHS data examined by Prostate Cancer UK revealed that 50,751 men were diagnosed with prostate ...
Prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body has limited treatment options, but a biomedical research group affiliated with Main Line Health has begun investigating a new therapy for ...
Radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy) uses high-energy beams or subatomic particles to damage the DNA inside prostate cancer cells. After enough damage, the cells cannot multiply, and they die.
Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment which means the medicines will travel ...
Several experimental prostate cancer drugs have produced striking results in early-stage clinical trials, with at least one ...
When prostate cancer has spread beyond the prostate to nearby lymph nodes and other areas of the body and treatments can no longer slow or stop its growth, you are not alone. Many patients, despite ...
Many clinicians who treat men with prostate cancer may be unfamiliar with the term "treatment-emergent small-cell neuroendocrine prostate cancer" (t-SCNC). That's because it has been considered a rare ...
Patches that lower testosterone by delivering oestradiol, a form of oestrogen, through the skin were just as effective as ...
A novel study has looked at different types of treatment for prostate cancer and their side effects. It suggests that for queer men, different types of treatment may be more appropriate depending on ...