Posted on December 1, 2017 by Sitemaster
According to a study just published in Cancer Research, a completely new technique referred to as “single cell genomics” may be able to improve the accuracy of diagnosis of prostate cancer based on biopsy tissue. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: cell, dagnosis, genomics, Gleason, grade, prognosis, score, single | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 9, 2016 by Sitemaster
Historic data have long suggested that men with prostate cancer who are in a stable, married (or a long-term “partnered”) relationship have better long-term survival than single males. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer | Tagged: co-habitation, marriage, single, status, survival | 7 Comments »
Posted on October 3, 2014 by Sitemaster
An article just published on line in Clinical Cancer Research supposedly reports the discovery of a single nucleotide polymorphism or SNP that may be useful in predicting which patients with Gleason 7 disease are most likely to have a more aggressive form of cancer. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Risk | Tagged: aggressiveness, biomarker, Gleason, grade, KLK3, nucleotide, polymorphism, single, SNP | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 9, 2013 by Sitemaster
Data published in 2005 and later have clearly shown that — for most patients — single-fraction radiation therapy (e.g., a single dose of 8 Gy) is better than multi-fraction radiation therapy (e.g., 30 Gy given over 10 treatments) for the treatment of bone pain consequent to metastatic cancer that has spread into the bones (in prostate cancer and other forms of cancer). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: bone, fraction, metastatsis, multiple, pain, palliation, radiation, single | 3 Comments »