Prostate Cancer - Dec 18, 2017 Edition

December 18, 2017     Prostate Cancer     The latest prostate cancer news from News Medical

Shorter course of radiation may be preferred treatment for men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer   Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among males in the United States. Approximately, 180,000 men are diagnosed each year, and approximately 95 percent of these men have localized disease that is potentially curable.       PET scans can predict prostate cancer patients’ response to salvage radiation treatment   For prostate cancer patients who have rising levels of PSA (a cancer indicator) even after radical prostatectomy, early treatment makes a difference.

UVA researchers developing tool to help prostate cancer patients weigh treatment options   Researchers at the University of Virginia Cancer Center are developing a tool to help patients with prostate cancer better understand the potential risks and rewards of their treatment options.         Prostate cancer researchers find significant disparities between two liquid biopsy providers   Two Johns Hopkins prostate cancer researchers found significant disparities when they submitted identical patient samples to two different commercial liquid biopsy providers.         Researchers adopt new approach to treating advanced prostate cancer   Scientists have proposed a new approach to preventing the proliferation of prostate tumor cells that are no longer responding to treatment. Prostate cancer can usually be cured via surgical removal of the tumor and/or the use of radiotherapy, but in one-fifth of cases, patients also require treatment with drugs to continue removing tumor cells.

Researchers discover new way to attack drug-resistant prostate cancer cells   In most cases, prostate cancer is cured by surgical removal of the tumor and/or by radiotherapy. However, 20% of patients will need treatment to remove tumor cells but this treatment ceases to be effective after two or three years and the cancer develops further.       Novel ‘black box’ recorder captures surgeons' robotic surgery skills   You may know that your surgeon is using the latest minimally invasive technology for your surgery, but how do you know if they've mastered it? To help answer that question, researchers at Keck Medicine of USC looked to a custom recording tool similar in concept to a flight recorder on an airplane.       Hidden genes hold blueprints for designing new anti-cancer drugs   New research suggests these hidden genes hold the blueprints for designing new, even more effective cancer-targeting compounds.

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