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Recent Prostate Cancer News

• Mid-stream urine collection system: an interview with Giovanna Forte, Managing Director, Forte MedicalThe mid-stream (MSU) is urine from the bladder, which carries the information clinicians need to accurately identify and diagnose a UTI, or in the case of antenatal patients, make sure all is well.
• Obesity directly tied to several cancers"Obesity is a major risk factor for developing cancer, roughly the equivalent of tobacco use, and both are potentially reversible. Further, obese cancer patients do worse in surgery, with radiation or...
• Research suggests that IMRT may not be more effective in patients who had prostatectomyIntensity-modulated radiation therapy has become the most commonly used type of radiation in prostate cancer, but research from the University of North Carolina suggests that the therapy may not be mo...
• Findings suggest that a prosaposin-based drug could block metastasis spreadBy studying the roles two proteins, thrombospondin-1 and prosaposin, play in discouraging cancer metastasis, a trans-Atlantic research team has identified a five-amino acid fragment of prosaposin that...
• UCLA study: Older men with multiple underlying health problems should avoid prostate cancer treatmentOlder prostate cancer patients with other underlying health conditions should think twice before committing to surgery or radiation therapy for their cancer, according to a multicenter study led by re...