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Prostate Cancer Linked To Virus: Update

Prostate Cancer Linked To Virus: Update

Disease And Conditons

08 Sep 2009
Recent studies have revealed that prostrate cancer may be linked to a virus. It has been suspected that the virus, known as xenotropic murine leukemia ...

Virus Found in Prostate Cancer Link

Virus Found in Prostate Cancer Link

Disease And Conditons

08 Sep 2009
There are some very frightening numbers out there about men’s health. According to National Academy of Sciences, one hundred ninety thousand men have received a ...

James Sensenbrenner Battling Prostate Cancer

James Sensenbrenner Battling Prostate Cancer

Disease And Conditons

01 Sep 2009
Sensenbrenner Says He Has Early-Stage Prostate Cancer Tuesday, September 01, 2009 – Another lawmaker diagnosed with prostate cancer within a month of the Senate Banking Chairman ...

 
One A Day Vitimins Don’t Prevent Prostate Cancer

One A Day Vitimins Don’t Prevent Prostate Cancer

Disease And Conditons

19 Jun 2009
The watchdog group CSPI wants the FTC to stop Bayer Healthcare LLC ads for two of thier popular multivitamin products because scientific evidence does not ...

Cholesterol Drugs May Cut Risk of Prostate Cancer

Cholesterol Drugs May Cut Risk of Prostate Cancer

Disease And Conditons

27 Apr 2009
Jacksonville - New studies are giving hope to those at risk of prostate cancer. United States researchers recently announced that cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may offer ...

Risk of Prostate Cancer Linked to Cholesterol Medication

Risk of Prostate Cancer Linked to Cholesterol Medication

Disease And Conditons

26 Apr 2009
New York - A major scientific study found that the risk of prostate cancer may be reduced in those taking medications to lower their cholesterol. ...

 
Prostate cancer vaccine appears promising

Prostate cancer vaccine appears promising

Disease And Conditons

15 Apr 2009
Jacksonville - A therapeutic vaccine developed by Dendreon Corp. of Seattle appears to improve survival rates in men with otherwise untreatable metastatic prostate cancer. The news ...

Prostate cancer vaccine has another successful clinical trial

Prostate cancer vaccine has another successful clinical trial

Disease And Conditons

14 Apr 2009
Jacksonville - With improved cancer treatments in recent years and the introduction of some promising drugs such as Gardasil, which is a vaccine against some ...

New Drug Holds Promise in Treatment of Aggressive Prostate Cancer

New Drug Holds Promise in Treatment of Aggressive Prostate Cancer

Disease And Conditons

09 Apr 2009
Jacksonville - Researchers reported Tuesday that a new experimental drug in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer showed promising results in the 1st and 2nd ...

 
NEW PROSTATE CANCER DRUG MAY HOLD PROMISE

NEW PROSTATE CANCER DRUG MAY HOLD PROMISE

Disease And Conditons

08 Apr 2009
Jacksonville - There may be cause for celebration among men with aggressive prostate cancer for whom traditional anti-androgen drug therapy has become ineffective. A new study, ...

Risks Incurred Through Early PSA Screening

Risks Incurred Through Early PSA Screening

Disease And Conditons

24 Mar 2009
Jacksonville - After screening for an elevated Prostate Specific Antigen, a recently released study which followed almost 77,000 American men for seven years, and almost ...

baldness med to reduce risk of prostate cancer

baldness med to reduce risk of prostate cancer

Health And Wellness

27 Feb 2009
Seattle - Side affects of prescription drugs are all over the place, they usually seem bad, but how about these drugs that somehow cure or ...

 
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