http://www.wddty.com/prostate-cancer_3 en-gb http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 20 A standard treatment for prostate cancer may spread the disease to other parts of the body, a new study has suggested. http://www.wddty.com/prostate-cancer-therapy-may-spread-the-disease.html http://www.wddty.com/prostate-cancer-therapy-may-spread-the-disease.html Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:59:00 GMT Health Can we beat nature? The good news seems to be that we can. Even people with a genetic predisposition for a disease can reduce the risk with a healthy diet, researchers believe. http://www.wddty.com/prostate-cancer-you-can-beat-it-with-a-healthy-diet-even-if-you-have-a-genetic-predisposition.html http://www.wddty.com/prostate-cancer-you-can-beat-it-with-a-healthy-diet-even-if-you-have-a-genetic-predisposition.html Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:49:00 GMT Health The most common cancer in elderly men, prostate cancer depends on male hormones called androgens, particularly testosterone. The usual management of early disease is with surgery and/or radiotherapy. For more advanced or metastasized cases, GnRH (gonadotrophin-releasing hormone) analogues such as buserelin, goserelin and leuprorelin are used to suppress androgen production. http://www.wddty.com/prostate-cancer_2.html http://www.wddty.com/prostate-cancer_2.html Mon, 7 May 2007 12:18:00 GMT Health When doing nothing may be best Men diagnosed with high-grade prostate cancer could live up to 10 years with no intervention, according to new research. Patients diagnosed with these aggressive cancers, especially if they fall within the younger age range, would usually be put through cancer therapy to improve their prognosis. http://www.wddty.com/prostate-cancer-when-doing-nothing-may-be-best.html http://www.wddty.com/prostate-cancer-when-doing-nothing-may-be-best.html Fri, 1 Jul 2005 12:00:00 GMT Health PSA: is this a test that has had its day? The prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test fails to recognise eight out of every 10 cases of prostate cancer. http://www.wddty.com/psa-is-this-a-test-that-has-had-its-day.html http://www.wddty.com/psa-is-this-a-test-that-has-had-its-day.html Thu, 1 Jan 2004 12:00:00 GMT Health Although prostate cancer is ultimately inevitable if you live long enough, there are many ways to delay its onset or reduce its symptoms: http://www.wddty.com/preventing-prostate-problems-naturally.html http://www.wddty.com/preventing-prostate-problems-naturally.html Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:00:00 GMT Health Prostate cancer seems to be ultimately unavoidable. Autopsies of men who have died of other causes show that around 40 per cent of men over the age of 50 have prostate cancer. http://www.wddty.com/the-hard-statistics.html http://www.wddty.com/the-hard-statistics.html Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:00:00 GMT Health Doctors sell prostate cancer patients on surgery as the only way to treat the disease once and for all, but evidence is mounting that, in a high percentage of surgery cases, the cancer soon comes back. http://www.wddty.com/the-terminator-illness.html http://www.wddty.com/the-terminator-illness.html Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:00:00 GMT Health The prostate is a walnut-sized organ that sits invisibly between the rectum and scrotum, close up against the bladder. It surrounds the urethra, http://www.wddty.com/the-problem-with-the-psa-test.html http://www.wddty.com/the-problem-with-the-psa-test.html Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:00:00 GMT Health How does PC-Spes work? A number of laboratories have tackled the problem, testing the herbal formula on prostate cancer cell cultures and mice http://www.wddty.com/the-synergy-of-pc-spes.html http://www.wddty.com/the-synergy-of-pc-spes.html Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:00:00 GMT Health Inaccurate screening tests and scalpel-happy surgeons could be inflating the real number of cases in this so-called epidemic and leaving many people worse off than before. ... http://www.wddty.com/the-killer-cure.html http://www.wddty.com/the-killer-cure.html Sat, 1 Jul 1995 12:00:00 GMT Health Ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are not sensitive nor accurate enough technologies to diagnose early cancer of the prostate. http://www.wddty.com/mri-will-not-diagnose-prostate-cancer.html http://www.wddty.com/mri-will-not-diagnose-prostate-cancer.html Tue, 1 Jan 1991 12:00:00 GMT Health