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Vitamin D deficiency predicts aggressive prostate cancer

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 05:05

Among African American men with abnormal prostate-specific antigen levels or abnormal findings on digital rectal examination of the prostate, biopsies are more likely to detect prostate cancer in...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

VIDEO: Overcoming barriers to discussing sexual dysfunction

Posted on: 18/04/2014 - 15:35

CHICAGO – "We’re often not very well educated in medical school or in our residencies about how to talk to patients about sexual functioning and dysfunction," according to Dr. Anita H....

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Prophylactic tadalafil ineffective after prostate cancer radiotherapy

Posted on: 01/04/2014 - 21:00

Daily tadalafil failed to preserve erectile function among men undergoing radiotherapy for prostate cancer, according to investigators. The report was published online April 1 in JAMA. In what they...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Meta-analysis shows statins help erectile function

Posted on: 29/03/2014 - 12:00

Men with erectile dysfunction had a better than threefold improvement in erectile function after receiving statin treatment compared with men randomized to placebo in a meta-analysis of 11 controlled...

Field of Interest: Cardiology

Type: News Item

Prostate cancer screening fell in wake of trial results, task force recommendations

Posted on: 27/03/2014 - 18:00

Routine screening for prostate cancer decreased in Ohio after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended against it, with a more immediate and pronounced decrease in the urban/academic...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

I-125 brachytherapy for prostate cancer linked to small increase in bladder cancer risk

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 14:45

Second primary malignancies affected 10.8% of men who received I-125 brachytherapy as monotherapy for prostate cancer, researchers reported in the April issue of Clinical Oncology. But only bladder...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

No benefit from androgen deprivation therapy in localized prostate cancer

Posted on: 25/03/2014 - 14:00

For most men with localized prostate cancer who defer surgery or radiation, primary androgen deprivation therapy offers no mortality benefit, Dr. Arnold L. Potosky reported. Dr. Potosky of...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Bladder incontinence up 43% in elderly since 1992

Posted on: 10/03/2014 - 15:50

The prevalence of bladder incontinence rose from 21.1% in 1992 to 30.2% in 2010 for Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older – an increase of 43%, according to data from the Medicare Current...

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Prostate cancer death rate highest in Montana

Posted on: 13/02/2014 - 15:20

Montana is expected to have the highest rate of prostate cancer deaths in the United States for 2014, and it will be more than twice as high as that of Texas, which should have the lowest rate, the...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Endocrine Society calls for trials on testosterone’s cardiovascular effects

Posted on: 11/02/2014 - 16:40

The Endocrine Society is calling for large-scale controlled trials of both testosterone therapy’s effects on older men and the association between testosterone therapy and cardiovascular...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology

Type: News Item

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