Prostate Cancer

Inositol Hexaphosphate Suppresses Growth and Induces Apoptosis in Prostate Carcinoma Cells in...

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, and University of Colorado Cancer Center, University of Colorado-Denver, Aurora, Colorado. Constitutive activation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)-Akt pathway...

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BioMed News Bytes: CombinatoRx, Dendreon, Photocure, Pozen

On 11/2/09, Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN) announced that it has completed the submission of its amended Biologics License Application (BLA) for PROVENGE (sipuleucel-T), seeking approval for men with metastatic castrate-resistant...

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November: changing the face of men's health

To the editor, Men across the province are sprouting facial hair in support of men's health, a tradition that started six years ago in Australia when a couple of guys wanted to bring back the moustache as a statement to raise...

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Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins medical talks to go head to head

By DAVID ROGERS Daily News Staff Writer Friday, November 20, 2009 It's like having to pick between front-row seats to shows by Karl Lagerfeld or Giorgio Armani. The events even start at the same time, 6 p.m. Three Cleveland...

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MRI in the Detection of Prostate Cancer: Combined Apparent Diffusion Coefficient, Metabolite...

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to compare apparent diffusion coefficients, metabolic ratios, and vascularity values within histologically defined prostate tumors with those in nontumor tissue to determine which...

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Uncomfortable truths about cancer screening

Women worried about breast cancer have just one concern: What can they do to reduce the risk of dying from the disease? Those are the issues a key medical advisory committee sought to address with the release of new breast...

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HHS Secretary commended for her statement on government medical panel

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is to be commended for publicly stating the government panel opposing mammograms is "an outside independent panel of doctors and scientists who ... do not set federal...

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Prostate Cancer Surgery Performed by Many Surgeons with Little Experience

A new study from researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has found that the majority of surgeons treating prostate cancer in the United States have extremely low annual caseloads, potentially leading to increased...

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NRC weighs sanctions against VA in prostate cancer treatment errors

By Katherine McIntire Peters kpeters@govexec.com November 19, 2009 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Nov. 17 found the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center in violation of multiple regulations regarding the surgical...

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High-Resolution Flow Cytometry: a Suitable Tool for Monitoring Aneuploid Prostate Cancer Cells...

If metastatic prostate cancer gets resistant to antiandrogen therapy, there are few treatment options, because prostate cancer is not very sensitive to cytostatic agents. Temozolomide (TMZ) as an orally applicable...

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