AUGUST 4: URO TODAY: A new UK study may have implications on understanding pathways of prostate cancer progression and on identifying potential targets for screening – pending further investigation of associations between PSA testing, Gleason score, and cancer stage. READ MORE>
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Better understanding of who should get prostate cancer screening may emerge from UK studies
Posted in Cancer aggression, Gleason grade, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, PSA tests, Screening debate, tagged cancer research, cancer stage, Gleason score, new UK study, pathways of prostate cancer progression, potential targets for screening, prostablog, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, PSA, PSA test, PSA testing, Screening debate, URO TODAY on August 4, 2009| Leave a Comment »
PROSTATE BREAKTHRU? Researchers claim they have tool to predict cancer risk at diagnosis
Posted in Cancer aggression, Diagnosis, PROSTATE CANCER, Prostate claims, PROSTATE RESEARCH, Screening debate, tagged biology-driven tool, cancer research, patient-specific, predict outcome, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate treatment debate, Screening debate on July 4, 2009| Leave a Comment »
JULY 4: URO TODAY: US researchers claim to have developed a patient-specific, biology-driven tool to predict outcome at the time of prostate cancer diagnosis. READ MORE>
PROSTATE RESEARCH: Cell ‘self-digestion’ may play role in cancer aggression
Posted in Cancer aggression, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, tagged aggressiveness, cancer research, defective “autophagy”, enzymes, Mike Scott, New Prostate Cancer Info-link, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer treatments on June 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
JUNE 13: NEW PROSTATE CANCER INFO-LINK: According to a report today on NJ.com, there are suggestions that defective “autophagy” — the process through which a cell “self-digests” because of the action of enzymes originating within the same cell — may be crucial to the amount and aggressiveness of at least some cancers. Prostate cancer may be one of those types of cancer. READ MORE>
PROSTATE TREATMENT: Hormone therapy may make tumours more aggressive
Posted in Cancer aggression, Hormone therapy, PROSTATE CANCER, Prostate claims, PROSTATE RESEARCH, Testosterone treatment, Treatment debate, tagged advanced prostate cancer, cancer research, HEALTH CARE BLOG, Hormone therapy, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer treatments, prostate treatment, prostate treatment debate, tumour aggression on June 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
JUNE 12: HEALTH CARE BLOG: Researchers have found that although hormone therapy helps prevent growth of the prostate cancer, the treatment also changes its properties, thereby making the tumour more aggressive. READ MORE>
PROSTATE RESEARCH: Cancer aggression clues found in stroma change
Posted in Cancer aggression, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, Treatment news, tagged Baylor College of Medicine, cancer research, Clinical Cancer Research., disease aggression, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate gland supportive framework, stroma on June 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »
JUNE 10: BAYLOR COLLEGE: The extent of change to stroma – the supportive framework of the prostate gland – caused by prostate cancer may be an indication of disease aggression, say researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears in the current issue of the journal Clinical Cancer Research. READ MORE>
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