Thousands of men with prostate cancer risk life-changing side effects during treatment because they are not offered a therapy given to David Cameron. The former prime minister revealed last week he ...
As part of its Speaking Out video series, CURE talked to Dr. Brian Keith McNeil, on behalf of ZERO Prostate Cancer, about managing side effects following prostate cancer treatment. While treatment ...
The most common surgery for prostate cancer is a radical prostatectomy. This surgery involves taking out the entire prostate gland, some lymph nodes and other nearby tissue, like the seminal vesicles ...
For many men with prostate cancer, weeks of daily treatments are no longer the norm. Jonathan Tward, MD, a radiation oncologist at Huntsman Cancer Institute, explains how image guidance, real-time ...
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 ...
Prostatectomy and radiation therapy show no survival difference for low-risk prostate cancer, but higher-risk cases require careful treatment consideration. The ProtecT trial supports active ...
However, during standard surgery it can be difficult to determine whether retaining these outer layers risks leaving some cancerous cells behind. In many cases, especially where the tumour is most ...
A long-term study of men diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer in the late 1980s and 1990s concludes that those who were treated with surgery were much less likely to die of the disease -- or of ...
This medication is a beneficial addition to your prostate cancer treatment plan — but it doesn’t come without risks. Here’s how to stay ahead of potential side effects. If you’ve been diagnosed with ...
Chemotherapy is one of the most commonly used treatments for cancer, but it can cause side effects. Alternatives include surgery, targeted therapy, and laser therapy. More than 100 types of cancer ...