Posted on September 4th, 2010 by Health News
Members of the Prostate Cancer Roundtable, consisting of America’s Leading Prostate Cancer Organizations, are asking President Obama to place a blue ribbon on the White House and light the White House blue in the evenings in recognition of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in September. This visible show of support for prostate cancer awareness by the [...]
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Posted on September 1st, 2010 by Health News
nSightec Ltd., the global leader in MR guided focused ultrasound technology and the only company to receive FDA approval for its ExAblate(R) system for treating uterine fibroids, announced that its ExAblate(R) system has been used for the first time for the treatment of prostate cancer patients. Seven patients with localized low-risk prostate cancer were treated [...]
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Posted on September 1st, 2010 by Health News
Elbit Imaging Ltd. (NASDAQ: EMITF) (”Elbit” “Company”) that it’s subsidiary, InSightec Ltd., the global leader in MR guided focused ultrasound technology and the only company to receive FDA approval for its ExAblate(R) system for treating uterine fibroids, announced that its ExAblate(R) system has been used for the first time for the treatment of prostate cancer [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Health News
Starting in September, President Obama’s Affordable Care Act will go into effect. The act mandates free preventative services such as cholesterol or breast cancer screenings and tetanus shots. But the question is, will doctors and patients take advantage of these new preventative services? “Unfortunately, thanks to our American healthcare system, we have been programmed to [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2010 by Health News
A new study from Sweden suggests that the of risk of prostate cancer in men with a known family history of the disease could be inflated because such men are more likely to seek a diagnosis, further intensifying the controversial debate on whether PSA testing does more harm than good…
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Posted on August 25th, 2010 by Health News
A new analysis has found that short-term and long-term costs of prostate cancer care vary considerably based on which treatment strategy a man initially receives. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study finds that treatments that may be less expensive in the short-term may have higher long-term [...]
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Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by Health News
(MedPage Today) — The five-year cost of treating localized prostate cancer varied by as much as 200%, depending on the choice of initial therapy, analysis of an NIH database showed.
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Posted on August 22nd, 2010 by Health News
The brothers of men with prostate cancer are at an increased risk of prostate cancer diagnosis because of increased diagnostic activity and not necessarily because they carry a genetic mutation that increases risk of the disease, according to a study published online August 19 in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute…
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Posted on August 20th, 2010 by Health News
The prostate cancer community joins together in congratulating Us TOO International Prostate Cancer Education & Support Network in their 20th anniversary of continued prostate cancer support, education and advocacy…
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Posted on August 19th, 2010 by Health News
More than 55 million American men are at risk for developing prostate cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. This year more than 27,000 men are expected to die of the disease, which is the second-leading cause of cancer death in men. “Fortunately, caught early enough prostate cancer is highly treatable,” said urologist [...]
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