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Heart health risk of prostate cancer treatment being ignored
Heart disease and stroke are emerging complications of treating prostate cancer with drugs to suppress testosterone production, yet standard management of the disease is ignoring this risk, warn specialists in a viewpoint published online in Heart.
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Urine-sniffing dogs: Early detection of prostate cancer
Arnhem, The Netherlands, 7 February 2011 — In the February 2011 issue of European Urology, Jean-Nicolas Cornu and colleagues reported the evaluation of the efficacy of prostate cancer (PCa) detection by trained dogs on human urine samples.
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Urgent need for prostate cancer screening amongst Dutch men
Arnhem, 15 September 2010 — A recent TNS NIPO survey, on behalf of the Dutch Association of Urology (NVU) and the European Association of Urology (EAU), showed that almost four out of 10 Dutch men of 50 years and older suffer, or have suffered, fr…
Green Tea Not Effective for Advanced Prostate Cancer
Although the benefits of green tea are widely touted, a study conducted by Mayo Clinic Cancer Center and North Central Cancer Treatment Group shows green tea is not an effective treatment for advanced prostate cancer. “Previous laboratory studies suggested that green tea might be an effective anticancer treatment,” says Aminah Jatoi, M.D., a Mayo Clinic medical oncologist and lead researcher on the study. “However, in our study of 42 patients with advanced androgen-independent prostate cancer, only one patient showed a short-term drop in his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels.