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Dr Dawn Harper discusses the symptoms of prostate cancer We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Prostate cancer is a common condition […]
A recent study reveals that some prostate cancer survivors have a persistent fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) even many years after diagnosis and treatment. Level of education, years since prostate removal, signs of cancer recurrence, and current therapies were predictors of FCR. The findings are published by Wiley early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal […]
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Pioneering drug that hits prostate cancer’s weak spot gives hope to men with the incurable disease Olaparib works by interfering with key process that allows tumour cells to repair Drug already given to women with a specific type of breast and ovarian cancer Roughly 50,000 men in the UK each year are diagnosed with prostate […]
Prostate cancer patients could be spared radiotherapy after surgery as new research suggests there is no benefit and it could be carried out later if the disease comes back Roughly 15,000 men could avoid radiotherapy while undergoing prostate cancer treatment Research in The Lancet found there was no benefit of the treatment ‘Radiotherapy need only […]
Vanderbilt researchers have identified haplotypes, ancestral fragments of DNA, that are associated with hereditary prostate cancer (HPC) in a first-of-its-kind genomic study made possible by the study of prostate cancer patients with family histories of the disease. The researchers analyzed the Nashville Familial Prostate Cancer Study (NFPCS), in an investigation comparing men with prostate cancer, […]
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK , yet we still don’t know all of its causes. The largest ever study to use genetics as a measurement for physical activity to look at its effect on prostate cancer, reveals that being more active reduces the risk of prostate cancer. Over […]
A transcription factor that aids neuron function also appears to enable a cell conversion in the prostate gland that can make an already recurrent cancer even more deadly, scientists say. BRN4 is mostly expressed in the central nervous system and inner ear, but now scientists have the first evidence it’s amplified and overexpressed in patients […]
Hope for thousands of prostate cancer sufferers as trial finds a ‘precision’ drug can help incurable patients live almost four months longer Lynparza extended survival of men with advanced prostate cancer by 7.4 months That is more than double the NHS hormonal treatments (3.5 months) Lynparza works by targeting faulty DNA which helps cancer cells […]