Prostate Cancer

Credit: Ur Metser, et al. New research confirms the high impact of PSMA PET/CT in the detection and management of recurrent disease in prostate cancer patients. In initial results from a multicenter trial assessing the impact of…

Agents can be produced easily in high yield and high purityCredit: Kalidindi TM, et al., Pillarsetty Lab, MSKCC, New York, NY. Researchers have developed a new pair of agents that show exceptional effectiveness for precision diagnosis…

Credit: R Hernandez et al., University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI. Targeted radionuclide therapy has been found to create a favorable tumor microenvironment in prostate cancer that improves the effectiveness of immunotherapies. The…

Black patients should also benefit from recently approved PARP inhibitor therapies 'if applied equitably,' study finds Black men in the United States are known to suffer disproportionately from prostate cancer, but few studies have…

World's largest radiation oncology meeting will offer full conference on interactive platform ARLINGTON, Va., July 9, 2020 -- Registration opens today for the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) 62nd Annual Meeting, to be…

Analysis of particles shed by tumors points to new, less invasive way to diagnose malignanciesCredit: Image by Cedars-Sinai. A new study sheds light on proteins in particles called extracellular vesicles, which are released by tumor…

Research reveals role unusual quantities of protein PRC1 plays in genetic errorsCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- An over-abundance of the protein PRC1, which is essential to cell division, is a telltale sign…

Cancer Access Partnership is expected to result in a 59 percent savings on procured cancer medicines Credit: Allied Against Cancer ATLANTA - June 29, 2020 - The American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Clinton Health Access…

Credit: Hayley Schultz/UniSA A novel formulation of the prostate cancer drug abiraterone acetate - currently marketed as Zytiga - will dramatically improve the quality of life for people suffering from prostate cancer, as…

Researchers from Kanazawa University discover that high-dose 131I-metaiodobenzylguanidine treatment could provide a favorable prognosis in children with neuroblastomaCredit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan -…

Credit: Nick (Jin-Yih) Low Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers from the Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences identified a lipid-regulating protein that conveys what the researchers describe…

Credit: Hoopla Summary Nanostics' clinical validation study for ClarityDX Prostate, a liquid biopsy test for the early diagnosis of clinically significant prostate cancer, re-opens recruitment after lifting of COVID-19…

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, led by CU Innovations, has partnered with serial MedTech entrepreneurs Jonathan Gasson and Sharon Lake to form PreView Medical, Inc. PreView's clinically proven technology focuses on the…

Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), together with German and Russian colleagues, have developed a lead compound to fight chemotherapy-resistant prostate cancer. The original design comes out as scientists combine…

Genetic testing for prostate cancer is still not common. New guidelines show why it's important, and which genes to test for. PHILADELPHIA -- Prostate cancer is a leading cause of death from cancer in the US and especially in the…

Hollings Cancer Center researcher finds that it is important to have effective strategies for chronic disease prevention and management for male minority prostate cancer patients as well as male veterans who have experienced various health…

Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications What we eat can affect the outcome of chemotherapy - and likely many other medical treatments - because of ripple effects that begin in our gut, new research suggests. University…

Keck School of Medicine researchers have identified a variant in the genome that may explain why multiple men in the same family develop the disease -- and could serve as a guide for screening For years, researchers have known that men of…

FINDINGS Researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center analyzed gene-expression patterns in the most aggressive prostate cancer grade group -- known as Gleason grade group 5 -- and found that this grade of cancer can…

Different tumor types have distinct effects on mouse immune system; parallel findings in humans suggest applications for cancer immunotherapy Cancer treatment has advanced with the advent of immunotherapies that, in some cancers, can…