Thirty-eight years ago, I was initiated into the oldest and one of the largest Black fraternities in the world: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. It was one of the happiest days of my life. In ...
Decades ago, doctors created a test to determine which breast cancer patients should receive hormone therapy. Now, researchers are using the same tactics to advance prostate cancer treatment. A recent ...
Wolinsky is a Chicago-based medical journalist and publisher of The Active Surveillor, a Substack newsletter that covers lower-risk prostate cancer and active surveillance. In 2002, at age 55, I ...
For prostate cancer patients with low-volume tumors and metastasis, the median overall survival was 37.13 months. Prostate cancer patients with metastatic disease and low-volume primary tumors appear ...
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a treatment for advanced prostate cancer that could eliminate a side effect so debilitating that patients often refuse the life-saving ...
Daniel Kelly does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
FDA approved Gozellix for prostate cancer imaging and expanded 177Lu-PSMA-617's label for mCRPC treatment. 64Cu-SAR-bisPSMA demonstrated efficacy in detecting recurrent prostate cancer in the COBRA ...
Stage 3 prostate cancer is locally advanced, with tumors extending beyond the prostate but not metastasizing distantly. Diagnosis involves the TNM system, Gleason score, PSA tests, and imaging to ...
Staging means finding out how far prostate cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group prostate cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being ...
Focal therapy now helping in the fight against prostate cancer With focal therapy, doctors are now able to destroy cancer cells without damaging the surrounding nerves and tissue. In today’s ...
The FDA has approved the Vanquish Water Vapor Ablation System, which uses steam to destroy prostate tumors. However, the efficacy of the device in eliminating cancer has yet to be established, ...