Prostate Cancer News Archive: 30-Apr-2006

• Best option for prostate cancer treatment is individual choice (Agriculture Online)
  Allen Lash began with a belief that surgery was his last choice to cure prostate cancer. "When you're diagnosed with prostate cancer, you're dealing with two main issues," he says. "First, your own survival. Second, quality-of-life issues, such as incontinence and sexual function.



• Novel Combined Therapy for Prostate Cancer Proves Significantly More Effective (Newswise)
  A five-year follow-up study finds that a combination of radiation and suicide gene therapy is eliminating the spread of prostate cancer and providing a long term vaccine against the disease.



• Prostate Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise (HealthCentral.com)
  FRIDAY, March 4 (HealthDayNews) -- A new vaccine that dramatically slows the recurrence of prostate cancer by marshaling the patient's own immune system to fight tumor cells looks promising in an early trial, researchers report.



• ASK THE DOCTOR | DR. MANISH DAMANI: 190,000-plus prostate cancer cases detected yearly in U.S. men (The Charlotte Observer)
  Q. My 60-year-old father was diagnosed with prostate cancer recently. How common is this and how is it detected? Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in American men and the second leading cause of cancer death. More than 190,000 new cases are detected yearly in men in the United States, and there are more than 30,000 deaths each year. Age, race and family history are significant



• New treatment used for treating prostate cancer (Bay News 9 Tampa Bay)
  LEESBURG, Fla. (AP) - A new treatment for prostate cancer was used for the first time in Florida this week. An implant, which contains Cesium-131, was used in the procedure performed Wednesday at the InterCommunity Center in Leesburg.

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