September 1, 2009 — More than 1 million additional men have been diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer since the introduction of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in the 1980s. And ...
News that former President Joseph Biden has advanced prostate cancer has revived long-standing questions about the benefits versus the harms of a blood test that screens for the most commonly ...
Overtreatment of older prostate cancer patients with a limited life expectancy has increased over the past two decades among men receiving care in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health system, researchers ...
Advances in technology have made active surveillance in men with prostate cancer possible and prevented treatment for men who don’t need it, said Matthew Nielsen, MD, FACS, chair, Department of ...
Many Black men are not given the novel hormone therapies that have become a game changer in the treatment of people with advanced prostate cancer. Recent advances in treatment, notably the new hormone ...
Getty Images The American Cancer Society recommends that Black men discuss screening with their health care providers at age 45; the Prostate Cancer Foundation recommends prostate-specific antigen ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: Regarding your recent column about prostate cancer, could you please clarify a statement that has created some concern and confusion for me? The statement is: “Screening begins to have ...
New research has shown that immunotherapy can be effective in treating prostate cancer in men who are selected based on the genetic characteristics of their tumors. In a recent study, it was found ...
Researchers have developed a new urine-based test that addresses a major problem in prostate cancer: how to separate the slow-growing form of the disease unlikely to cause harm from more aggressive ...
Outcomes in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With Down Syndrome and ALL: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group This review will focus on the changing landscape of treatment outcomes with ...