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The oldest known case of prostate cancer was discovered in the skeleton of a Scythian king who lived in Russia some 2,700 years ago. In a recent investigation, researchers discovered the second-oldest known case of the cancer, in a 2,250-year-old mummy from Egypt.
According to a paper published in the latest issue ... |
28 October 2011
06:03 GMT |
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Investigators based at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) say that prostate cancer patients ate low-fat diets between four and six weeks before having their prostate removed exhibited lower cancer cell growth rates than their peers.
The study was meant to c... |
26 October 2011
04:38 GMT |
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The Mike Gooley Trailfinders Charity and the Prostate Cancer Charity have just awarded a £100,000 ($159,000, €115,000) grant to researchers at the University of Bristol, for the development of a method to destroy prostate cancer tumors by starving them of blood.
The main beneficiary of the research grant... |
21 October 2011
17:01 GMT |
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The results of a large-scale clinical trial conducted in the United States appear to indicate that consuming high-doses of dietary supplements containing vitamin E is associated with an increased risk of developing prostate cancer for men.
These conclusions were published just a couple of days after another study... |
12 October 2011
18:01 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) says that the interplay between two genetic factors underlying the development and evolution of prostate cancer have finally been studied and understood. The findings may help identify those who will develop lethal prostate cancer.In the United Stat... |
16 August 2011
03:44 GMT |
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For the first time ever, a team of experts at the Purdue University has devised a new method for detecting and treating prostate cancer from early research to clinical trials. If successful, the use of the drug will extend all over the world. Usually, researchers at Purdue work with a pharmaceutical company. They lic... |
9 June 2011
04:57 GMT |
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It could very well be that people who suffer from Parkinson's disease (PD) are also at an increased risk of developing prostate cancer and melanoma, say researchers from the University of Utah.In a new study, they found out that a connection definitely exists between the two. PD apparently boosts cancer risk, an... |
8 April 2011
10:23 GMT |
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Investigators from the University of Michigan say they managed to discover the reason why people who suffer from breast or prostate cancers are very likely to experience a relapse in their condition. Most often, that relapse affects the bones. This connection has puzzled scientists for quite some time, and a lot of f... |
24 March 2011
09:00 GMT |
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A researcher is devastated after a thief stole her laptop containing years-worth of prostate cancer cure data that was never backed up and can't be replicated.The missing 13-inch white Macbook belongs to Sook Shin, who together with her husband Ralf Jankecht, are leading cancer researchers at Oklahoma University... |
15 January 2011
04:59 GMT |
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The typical American-style diet is full of high fat and cholesterol levels and, according to a new research conducted by scientists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, it plays a very important role in the growth and spread of breast cancer.The researchers used a mouse model to analyze the role of fat and chole... |
7 January 2011
05:14 GMT |
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This is a good news for men worldwide – Finnish researchers have discovered a compound that prevents the growth of prostate cancer cells, the second most common cause of cancer death in men, after lung cancer.A team of researchers from VTT Technical Research Center of Finland and the University of Turku have pr... |
20 December 2010
05:48 GMT |
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A new research carried out by the University of California, Riverside, could lead to new drug therapies to fight cancer, since it's found several components in pomegranate juice, that inhibit the movement of cancer cells and keep them away from moving on to the bone.The research was performed in the lab of Manue... |
13 December 2010
05:08 GMT |
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A team of researchers in the United States announces a groundbreaking discovery in prostate cancer research. The investigators argue that a protein regularly involved in the self-renewal of normal prostate stem cells also plays a role in promoting the morphing of normal cells into cancer cells. The finding is very wo... |
4 December 2010
07:03 GMT |
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A team of researchers from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces that it has just awarded a $3.3 million grant to a collaboration of researchers for improving prostate cancer imaging. The team includes researchers from the Rutgers University, the Riverside Research Institute, the Beth Israel Deaconess ... |
11 October 2010
10:30 GMT |
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Everybody would think that the earlier the detection of the prostate cancer is, the higher the patient's chances are, but a new study suggests that it all actually depends on the prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels within the blood.A team of researchers led by Pim van Leeuwen, MD, of the Erasmus University Me... |
13 September 2010
05:21 GMT |
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Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine (CGM) and the University of Tokyo, carried out a genome-wide study on Japanese prostate cancer patients. The study has revealed 5 new genetic variations associated with prostate cancer, and also gave resemblances and differences in the disease between Europeans and... |
2 August 2010
08:39 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announced recently that it managed to discover the cell of origin for prostate cancer. The discovery has tremendously important implications, given that it may open the way to creating new and advanced drugs for fighting off this terribl... |
30 July 2010
04:16 GMT |
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A new research carried out by scientists from Johns Hopkins and the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health suggested that men that develop prostate cancer that spreads throughout the body and reaches the bones, have denser bones as they age, unlike men free of the illness. This f... |
29 July 2010
10:46 GMT |
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People should eat more fruits and vegetables, doctors often advise, and they also highly recommend broccoli. Besides large amounts of vitamins C, A and K and dietary fiber it has anti-cancer properties. Scientists recently found the link between eating broccoli and reducing prostate cancer risk, and published th... |
13 July 2010
05:35 GMT |
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In two new, large and randomized clinical trials, experts Otis W. Brawley, MD, from the American Cancer Society, Donna Ankerst, PhD, and Ian M. Thompson, MD, from the University of Texas Health Science Center, in San Antonio, have discovered that the efficiency of prostate cancer (PC) tests is limited at best, and no... |
29 June 2009
06:09 GMT |
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Prostate cancer is a form of the disease affecting the prostate gland in men, and its effects can be very severe, leading even to death. Because the condition is very widespread, like the breast and cervical varieties are in women, researchers have been trying to identify a way of stopping it, or at least slowing dow... |
22 June 2009
18:01 GMT |
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A new scientific research by experts at the Durham University has yielded a new tool for identifying prostate cancer, which could make the entire process of discovering the disease and starting treatments more efficient, thus improving the odds of the patient. Working together with colleagues from the University of M... |
18 May 2009
22:01 GMT |
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Elected officials, occupying high-responsibility positions, should get an independent health assessment yearly, as well as full check-ups before their candidacy is accepted to various positions. Doctor Lord David Owen, a member of the UK House of Lords, said that this would make people more aware of how their leaders... |
13 November 2008
08:25 GMT |
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