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Revolutionary new drug could help sex lives of thousands of prostate cancer suffers

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A revolutionary new light activated drug will spare thousands of men with prostate cancer from the misery of ruined sex lives. The treatment involves injecting a light sensitive drug into the blood stream. When infra red light is shone on the prostate, it destroys the blood vessels feeding the tumour, killing it. Read the article.

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Study Suggests Chemotherapy After Radical Prostatectomy May Benefit Men Who Are At High Risk for Relapse

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Not all men with prostate cancer benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy after radical prostatectomy; however, African American men and men with a higher tumor stage may, according to a new U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) study. Read the article.

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Salvage Brachytherapy for Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer following Primary Brachytherapy

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A study evaluated experience with salvage brachytherapy after discovery of biochemical recurrence after a prior brachytherapy procedure. Twenty-one patients treated by brachytherapy within University of Kentucky or from outside centers developed biochemical failure and had no evidence of metastases. Conclusions. Salvage brachytherapy after primary brachytherapy is possible; however, the side-effect profile after the second brachytherapy procedure was higher than after the first brachytherapy procedure. Read the article.

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SBRT for prostate cancer treatment offers higher cure rate than many traditional approaches

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A five-year study shows that Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) to treat prostate cancer offers a higher cure rate than more traditional approaches. The study – the first trial to publish five-year results from SBRT treatment for prostate cancer – found a 98.6 percent cure rate with SBRT, a noninvasive form of radiation treatment that involves high-dose radiation beams entering the body through various angles and intersecting at the desired target. It is a state-of-the-art technology that allows for a concentrated dose to reach the tumor while limiting the radiation dose to surrounding healthy tissue. Read the article.

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Feasibility for active surveillance in biopsy Gleason 3 + 4 prostate cancer: an Australian radical prostatectomy cohort.

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To examine the feasibility of active surveillance for low volume Gleason sum (GS) 3 + 4 disease compared to GS 3 + 3 disease. Retrospective review of 929 patients, with biopsy proven GS 3 + 3 and 3 + 4 PCa, undergoing upfront radical prostatectomy (RP) was performed. Read the article.

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Statistics Canada Study: Prostate cancer trends in Canada, 1995 to 2012

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In 2012, there were 21,105 new cases of prostate cancer diagnosed, representing 23.4% of all new cancer cases among men. Overall, prostate cancer accounted for 9.5% (3,708) of all cancer deaths among men in 2012. The age-standardized incidence rate of prostate cancer has declined by an average of 3.8% per year since 2006. The annual rate of deaths due to prostate cancer has also fallen. From 1995 to 2012, the age-standardized prostate cancer mortality rate decreased by an average of 2.9% per year, a 40.9% decline over this period. Men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2012 tended to

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Side Effects of Radiation Therapy May Be Eased by a Diet Rich in Tomatoes, Study Reports

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Researchers in the U.K. and Germany report that lycopene, a carotenoid pigment present in tomatoes, can protect human lymphoid cells against the harmful effects of gamma radiation during radiation therapy, a common treatment for cancer, and could be used as a dietary intervention. Read the article.

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Nutrition, aging and cancer: lessons from dietary intervention studies

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Mediterranean diet has been reported to significantly reduce mortality rates for various chronic illnesses, including cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. Although many observational studies have supported this evidence, dietary intervention studies using a Mediterranean dietary pattern or its selected food components are still limited and affected by a rather large variability in characteristics of study subjects, type and length of intervention, selected end-points and statistical analysis. Read the article.

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