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Prostate cancer news reports: Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Sitemaster wrote 4 days ago: In today’s news reports we cover items on: Prediction of risk for prostate cancer under-gradi … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, Treatment, biopsy, capecitabine, CRPC, docetaxel, Gleason score

Prostate cancer news reports: Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Sitemaster wrote 5 days ago: In todayas news reports we deal with items about: Celecoxib therapy prior to radical prostatectomy … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment, cedlecoxib, Celebrax, Decompression, Dissection

All pumped up about PARPs

Sitemaster wrote 1 week ago: A report in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (which is never shy about … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, MSI-201, olaparib, PAP inhibitor

Prostate cancer news reports: Wednesday, June 24, 20093 comments

Sitemaster wrote 1 week ago: Today’s news reports include discussion of items on: Prostate cancer risk awareness Improving … more →

Tags: Prevention, Diagnosis, Management, Treatment, Risk, brachytherapy, Cryotherapy, Therapy, Risk

OGX-011 to enter Phase III trials for CRPC

Sitemaster wrote 1 week ago: OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals has just announced today that the company is “ready to proceed with … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment

Chatter about down-staging with ipilimumab prior to surgery

Sitemaster wrote 2 weeks ago: According to a report on WebMD, presumably based on media information provided by the Mayo Clinic, t … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, androgen deprivation therapy, down-staging, ipilimumab, Surgery

Prostate cancer news reports: Thursday, June 18, 20091 comment

Sitemaster wrote 2 weeks ago: Articles addressed in this report deal with: The reactions of men to a diagnosis of prostate cancer … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment, CRPC, MRI, PSA, radical prostatectomy, Reaction

Combidex, MRI, and identification of nodal metastases

Sitemaster wrote 2 weeks ago: One of the major issues in the management of prostate cancer is the identification of early physical … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, imaging, Metastasis, ferumoxtran-10, Combidex, Lymph Node

Prostate cancer news reports: Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Sitemaster wrote 2 weeks ago: This morning’s news reports address: Patterns of use of PSA and DRE testing in the USA The va … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, Treatment, ADT, androgen deprivation, Dre, LHRH agonist, mechanism of action

Prostate cancer news reports: Saturday, June 13, 2009

Sitemaster wrote 3 weeks ago: Today’s news reports include information on: Outcomes comparing two types of radiation therap … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, Radiotherapy, hypofractionated, Standard, conformal beam, raduical prostatectomy, Young, old

Autophagy, p62, and prostate cancer

Sitemaster wrote 3 weeks ago: According to a report today on NJ.com, there are suggestions that defective  “autophagy” … more →

Tags: Management, Prevention

Prostate cancer news reports: Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Sitemaster wrote 3 weeks ago: Today’s news reports deal with items on: The mechanism of action of D,L-sulforaphane Isolatio … more →

Tags: Management, Prevention, Treatment, ARC, bitter melon, focal therapy, hypofractionated, intensity-modulated, Radiotherapy

Using PSA progression to predict survival in clinical trials

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: Because it takes so long for men with even advanced prostate cancer to progress through to death fro … more →

Tags: enpoint, Overall, PSA progression, Surrogate, survival

A Phase III clinical trial of Sprycel + Taxotere in CRPC

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: Bristol-Myers Squibb has announced the launch of the READY Phase III trial designed to compared dasa … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment

How many types of prostate cancer are there?

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: At a meeting of some leading members of the prostate cancer advocacy community yesterday morning, du … more →

Tags: Management, Prevention, Risk

ASCO commentary and update no. 4

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: There were about 50 prostate cancer-specific posters presented in the general poster session on Sund … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, CRPC, Asco, Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

ASCO commentary and update no. 3

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: There were probably over 100 posters related to prostate cancer presented at the ASCO meeting today … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Risk, PCA3, abiraterone acetate

ASCO commentary and update no. 1

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: On Saturday there were two major prostate cancer sessions and additional poster sessions that includ … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, MDV3100, OGX-011, Vaccines, PROSTVAC-VF

Does an elevated melatonin level in morning urine really reduce risk for prostate cancer?2 comments

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: Every so often you come across something so far  “out of left field” that just possibly … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Prevention, Risk, melatonin


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