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UPDATE: Eddie Montgomery fighting prostate cancer

UPDATE: Eddie Montgomery fighting prostate cancer

Hollywood Health

20 Nov 2010
Country music band Montgomery Gentry front-man Eddie Montgomery has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The country music star, one half of the Montgomery Gentry duo, ...

Eddie Montgomery fighting prostate cancer

Eddie Montgomery fighting prostate cancer

Hollywood Health

19 Nov 2010
Country music singer Eddie Montgomery of Montgomery Gentry has announced he is battling prostate cancer. Montgomery, 47, who lives near Perryville in Boyle County will undergo ...

Medicare may cover exspensive prostate cancer vaccine: Provenge

Medicare may cover exspensive prostate cancer vaccine: Provenge

Disease And Conditons, Insurance

18 Nov 2010
In April Provenge, a therapeutic vaccine, was approved for treatment for prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. It is the ...

 
Mixed Review for Prostate Cancer Vaccine: Dendreon

Mixed Review for Prostate Cancer Vaccine: Dendreon

Disease And Conditons

12 Nov 2010
Blue Cross Blue Shield has recently conducted a review of the new prostate immunization to see if the therapy should still be considered a treatment ...

Remember remember the month of Movember: Creating awareness for prostate cancer

Remember remember the month of Movember: Creating awareness for prostate cancer

Disease And Conditons

05 Nov 2010
Movember was started by a group of friends in Australia in 2003, as a way to create awareness for men's health issues, focusing on prostate ...

Common prostate cancer drugs increased risk of diabetes and heart attacks

Common prostate cancer drugs increased risk of diabetes and heart attacks

Disease And Conditons

21 Oct 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Wednesday new warnings on the labels of commonly used hormonal prostate cancer drugs because of evidence ...

 
UPDATE: New drug slows prostate cancer and extends lives

UPDATE: New drug slows prostate cancer and extends lives

Disease And Conditons, Science

12 Oct 2010
Johnson & Johnson’s experimental prostate-cancer drug, abiraterone, not only slows the growth of prostate cancer, but also significantly increase the life expectancy of patients. The study ...

New drug slows prostate cancer and extends lives

New drug slows prostate cancer and extends lives

Disease And Conditons, Science

11 Oct 2010
Results of an advanced clinical trial suggest that a new prostate cancer drug call abiraterone was able to slow the spread of prostate cancer and ...

Viagra raises hope for prostate cancer patients

Viagra raises hope for prostate cancer patients

Disease And Conditons, Science

28 Sep 2010
New research shows that by combining the anti-impotence drug Viagra with Doxorubicin, a standard chemotherapy drug, the combination not only reduced the size of tumours ...

 
Prostate cancer screening debate rages on

Prostate cancer screening debate rages on

Disease And Conditons

14 Sep 2010
A new study indicates that regular blood testing to measure levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) is more effective at detecting prostate cancer in men ...

Swedish Study Suggest Link Between Prostate Cancer and Family History Could Be Exaggerated

Swedish Study Suggest Link Between Prostate Cancer and Family History Could Be Exaggerated

Disease And Conditons

25 Aug 2010
The controversial debate on PSA testing possibly causing more harm than good continues as results of a new Swedish study suggests that the risk of ...

Prostate Cancer May Not Run in Families: The Real Cost of Therapy

Prostate Cancer May Not Run in Families: The Real Cost of Therapy

Disease And Conditons

25 Aug 2010
A new study from Sweden has questioned the link between prostate cancer diagnosis and family bonds. The theory in question was whether or not having ...

 
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