HIFU: A newer option for men with localized prostate cancer Richard Ridington If you're considering treatments for localized prostate cancer, there’s one option you may not know of: High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU). I am not a medical professional, but one patient who can say why he found HIFU an appealing choice, then suggest some [...]
Treating prostate cancer with antidepressants Imagine treating Prostate Cancer with an anti-depressant medication. A new USC School of Pharmacy study suggests that the monoamine oxidase-A enzyme (MAO-A) pathway could be used for treating prostate cancer. The drugs under consideration are the new, third generation of reversible, selective MAO-A inhibitors such as moclobemide, toloxatone and brofaromine, [...]
What's the chance that somebody who was exposed to radiation now has a subsequent cancer later on in their life? The chance of that is a statistical one, meaning there's no large study out there where people are followed for hundreds of months. Researchers have looked at young women who had breast cancer in the [...]
Radiation is high energy x-rays. When you are depositing energy into a target with the latest technology, you're able to kill off a tumor and you're able to preferentially address a given region and to spare the adjacent tissues around that region. There are different types of radiation, but therapeutic radiation is high dose [...]
Men with Prostate Cancer May Not Know All Of Their Treatment Options and Risks by Brian Miles, MD Urology Houston Methodist Urology Associates Professor of Urology, Institute for Academic Medicine Houston Methodist - Weill Cornell Medical College According to a September 2017 study by BJU International, men who have been diagnosed with localized prostate [...]