Prostate Cancer

Oncology Present & Future Bangladesh and Narayana Health (NH), one of India’s top healthcare organizations, successfully organized a conference on the “Use of Robotics in Prostate Cancer” in Dhaka on Saturday, July 8. With more than...

Most men receiving surgery for localised and locally advanced prostate cancer can have radiotherapy safely removed from their initial treatment, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in The Lancet. The authors recommend that patients...

Olaparib could become a revolutionary treatment for prostate cancer – the first genetically targeted drug for fighting the disease, say experts. The precision medicine is already used by the NHS for ovarian cancer and has been...

Men who have fertility treatment have a higher risk of prostate cancer in later life, a study has suggested. The research – in the British Medical Journal – looked at 1.2 million pregnancies in Sweden over 20 years....

News Hour: A 20-year study finds that radical prostatectomy is not associated with improved survival in patients with localized prostate cancer. The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, are consistent with shorter-term findings....

News Hour: Men with prostate cancer that hasn’t spread to surrounding tissues are more likely to get radiation therapy if they’re diagnosed by doctors who own radiation machines, a Texas study suggests. Most men with prostate...

News Hour: Although many prostate cancer patients are elderly, new guidelines from the International Society of Geriatric Oncology say that the men’s treatment should be based on their individual health status, not on their age. Elderly...

News Hour: Giving men with suspected prostate cancer an MRI scan could improve diagnosis and save those who do not have aggressive cancers from having an unnecessary biopsy, according to a study published in The Lancet....