A new paper by a group of Chinese researchers has suggested that levels of a biochemical called interleukin-35 (IL-35) in blood plasma may offer evidence of the presence of prostate cancer and do so significantly better than PSA levels (particularly for men with PSA levels of between 4 and 10 ng/ml). … READ MORE …
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The Intergroupe Coopérateur Francophone de Recherche en Onco-urologie (ICFuro) has just published a review of the available evidence on the clinical validity and utility of six prognostic biomarkers available for the assessment of prostate cancer-related risk. … READ MORE …
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A newly published article in JAMA Oncology is asking whether there is a completely different way to look at how to classify prostate cancer tissue types and correlate such classification to responses to treatment using certainly classes of drugs. … READ MORE …
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According to an article yesterday on Cancer Therapy Advisor, testing for circulating tumor cell (CTC)-based androgen receptor splice variant-7 (AR-V7) has now been validated as a prognostic test for men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) receiving hormone therapy. … READ MORE …
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Last week we mentioned that one specific form of micro-ribonucleic acid (miRNA) may be usable in the development of a drug or drugs to stop the process of metastasis in men with high-risk forms of prostate cancer. Another recent study goes one step further than that. … READ MORE …
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It has been suspected for years that there was some form of connection between “male pattern baldness” and being at risk for prostate cancer, and past studies have tended to validate this, but arguably not as well as the one described below. … READ MORE …
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