Gene test picks out prostate cancers that could respond to ‘search-and-destroy’ medicine
Testing for genetic weaknesses in repairing DNA could pick out men who may benefit from a new type of targeted ...
Tag: Prostate Cancer
Encephalitis identified as rare toxicity of immunotherapy treatment
After a cancer patient receiving an immunotherapy developed encephalitis and died 18 months into treatment, researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center ...
Discovery shows how difficult-to-treat prostate cancer evades immune system
Study reports pre-clinical development of novel treatment and potential for combination use with immunotherapy drugsCredit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers ...
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer may raise risk of Alzheimer’s, Dementia
A Penn study of more than 150,000 men with prostate cancer shows androgen deprivation therapy was associated with a higher ...
Discovery of mechanism behind precision cancer drug opens door for more targeted treatment
Research explains how the drugs work, who else might benefit from their useCredit: Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of ...
Androgen deprivation therapy associated with risk of alzheimer, dementia diagnoses in older men with prostate cancer
Bottom Line: Data for 154,089 older men diagnosed with prostate cancer were used to analyze the association between androgen deprivation ...
Bench to beside study of a targetable enzyme controlling aggressive prostate cancer
PHILADELPHIA -- Prostate cancer represents a major health challenge and there is currently no effective treatment once it has advanced ...
Noninvasive test improves detection of aggressive prostate cancer
50% of treatments could have been avoided using new tool, UCLA-led study finds A team of researchers from UCLA and ...
Shorter courses of proton therapy can be just as effective as full courses prostate cancer
Penn study finds protons are effective, safe when given in higher dosesCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Treating prostate cancer with ...
Researchers reach milestone in use of nanoparticles to kill cancer with heat
Credit: Tetiana Korzun CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University have developed an improved technique for using magnetic nanoclusters ...
Genetically modified virus combats prostate cancer
In a study with mice, a gene therapy developed in Brazil kills cancer cells and avoids adverse side effects when ...
Newly defined cancer driver is fast, furious and loud
Researchers characterize 3 ways in which the gene FOXA1 mutates to trigger prostate cancerCredit: University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center ...
Prostate cancer urine test shows who needs treatment and when
Researchers at the University of East Anglia and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital have developed a urine test to ...
New combination therapy established as safe and effective for prostate cancer
Targeted treatment offers potential options for men with progressive diseaseCredit: Credit: Emmett L, Crumbaker M, Nguyen A, et al. ANAHEIM, ...
Nuclear medicine PSMA-targeted study offers new options for cancer theranostics worldwide
Credit: Wester HJ, Wurzer A et al., Pharmaceutical Radiochemistry, Technical University Munich, Germany Research presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting ...
Interim scan during prostate cancer therapy helps guide treatment
Credit: Andrei Gafita, Matthias Eiber, TUM School of Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany. New prostate cancer research shows ...
Researchers find link between exposure to world trade center dust and prostate cancer
(New York, NY - June 20, 2019) -- World Trade Center (WTC) responders with prostate cancer showed signs that exposure ...
Inflammatory mechanisms may underlie increased risk of prostate cancer among WTC responders
Bottom Line: Inflammatory and immune-regulatory mechanisms were found to be altered in animal models and in archived prostate cancer tumor ...
Study shows more effective method for detecting prostate cancer
Combining biopsy strategies allowed doctors to find up to 33% more cancersCredit: UCLA Health Each year, 1 million men in ...
New finding: Biomarker indicates tumor aggressiveness and poor prognosis in men with prostate cancer
Addition of the protein CCN3 on biomarker panel may further help predict prostate cancer metastasis to bone, according to a ...
