Article releases findings presented at the Prostate Cancer Foundation's Annual Scientific Retreat that may help physicians and patients develop dietary plans for men who are at risk for prostate cancer. These findings may also help men who have been diagnosed delay immediate treatment by feeling more comfortable with an active surveillance option. Researchers will share [...]
The New York Times recently reported that the Veterans Administration (VA) is no longer releasing cancer statistics to the cancer registries without additional limitations. This means that cancers, especially prostate cancer will be underreported. Each state has been negotiating agreements with the VA and some states have found it impossible to comply with the VA [...]
Statistics show that deaths from cancers are dropping. Death rates from cancer have been dropping by an average of 2.1 percent a year recently in the United States, a near doubling of decreases that began in 1993, researchers are reporting...... Much of the progress comes not from miracle cures, but from more mundane improvements in [...]
Members of the Winston-Salem Urban League and the local branch of the Nation of Islam held a local version of the Prostate Cancer Walk for Life, an annual walk designed to raise awareness of the need for prostate-cancer treatment......The two groups held the walk, the first in the city, to coincide with yesterday’s Louis Farrakhan [...]
Research done through a grant by the Prostate Cancer Foundation was presented at their recent meeting relating to the biology of advanced prostate cancer and reported in Medical Research News. The researchers were able to detect in the tumors the key proteins, or enzymes, needed for a cell to produce its own testosterone from cholesterol [...]