Thousands of men with prostate cancer risk life-changing side effects during treatment because they are not offered a therapy given to David Cameron. The former prime minister revealed last week he ...
Men with advanced prostate cancer undergoing local therapies such as radiation therapy or radical prostatectomy experience significantly more gastrointestinal and sexual issues, along with problems ...
As part of its Speaking Out video series, CURE talked to Dr. Brian Keith McNeil, on behalf of ZERO Prostate Cancer, about managing side effects following prostate cancer treatment. While treatment ...
The most common surgery for prostate cancer is a radical prostatectomy. This surgery involves taking out the entire prostate gland, some lymph nodes and other nearby tissue, like the seminal vesicles ...
A groundbreaking trial for a prostate cancer treatment with fewer side-effects has launched in the UK, researchers have said. Backed by the Government-funded National Institute for Health and Care ...
For many men with prostate cancer, weeks of daily treatments are no longer the norm. Jonathan Tward, MD, a radiation oncologist at Huntsman Cancer Institute, explains how image guidance, real-time ...
As a result, researchers have explored less invasive options that aim to treat the cancer while preserving quality of life. One such approach is TULSA, which uses real-time MRI guidance to deliver ...
This medication is a beneficial addition to your prostate cancer treatment plan — but it doesn’t come without risks. Here’s how to stay ahead of potential side effects. If you’ve been diagnosed with ...
However, men with higher PSA levels did show modest improvements in survival, suggesting that hormone therapy might be worthwhile for them. PSA (prostate-specific antigen) is produced by the prostate ...
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a treatment for advanced prostate cancer that could eliminate a side effect so debilitating that patients often refuse the life-saving ...
A long-term study of men diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer in the late 1980s and 1990s concludes that those who were treated with surgery were much less likely to die of the disease -- or of ...