Prostate Cancer

Growth factors VEGF-C and VEGF-D are contributors to the spread of cancer Together with its partners, a research group led by Docent Michael Jeltsch at the University of Helsinki, Finland, has discovered new mechanisms which activate the…

Findings relate to men with low-risk prostate cancerCredit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Overall active surveillance rates are up, though the increase is significantly smaller for black patients Black men may be deterred by both…

In largest study of its kind, Penn researchers compare overall adverse events of proton and photon therapiesCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Cancer patients getting proton therapy instead of traditional photon radiation are at a…

Researchers at UNIGE have carried out the first nationwide study on semen quality of young Swiss men -- and their verdict? Only 38% of men have semen parameter values above the norms set by World Health Organization for fertile men Over…

A simple, inexpensive device that forces cells through tiny channels shows promise as a detector for metastatic cancerCredit: Fazle Hussain, Texas Tech University WASHINGTON, D.C., May 21, 2019 -- Prostate cancer is the…

(Boston)--Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered that blocking a specific protein, may be a promising strategy to prevent the spread of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Under the…

UC Riverside researchers develop new drugs that target therapeutically relevant protein surfacesCredit: Pellecchia lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A University of California, Riverside, research team has come up with a new…

Medical University of South Carolina researchers identified socially isolated prostate cancer patients with 90 percent accuracy by parsing physicians' notes using natural language processing, a type of artificial intelligenceCredit: Sarah…

New Haven, Conn. -- According to researchers at Yale Cancer Center, a cancer drug thought to be of limited use possesses a superpower of sorts: It is able to stop certain cancer cells from repairing their DNA in order to survive. The…

Credit: Trotman lab/CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- An estimated 450,000 Americans are diagnosed each year with a cancer that's driven by MYC, an oncogene that hijacks growth and metabolism in cancer cells. MYC has a storied…