Prostate Surgery Center

A Reuters news story (originated by the journal Urology) explains how obesity makes it harder for the PSA test to do what it’s supposed to do … detect prostate cancer. The prostate-specific antigen test (or PSA for short) is the common method used to detect prostate cancer in men.
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a protein produced […]

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Prostate Cancer Treatment Centre Receives Funding for Clinical Trials
Clinical Trial Aimed to Supplement Current Research Findings on the Treatment of Localized Prostate Cancer
TORONTO, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ — A Canadian study on High Intensity
Focused Ultrasound therapy with the Sonablate(R) 500 - a Health Canada
approved treatment for localized prostate cancer - is underway at Can-Am
HIFU. Through funding […]

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SARASOTA, Fla., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ — JM, a 71 year old business
executive from Tennessee, had a negative biopsy using gray scale ultrasound
despite a PSA of 7.1. The following year, the PSA rose to 11.5 prompting a
second biopsy that was negative despite adding Color Flow Doppler
Ultrasound.
At this point, the patient and all doctors in attendance were
frustrated […]

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Safeway Inc. and the Prostate Cancer Foundation to Fund Landmark Prostate Cancer Research Collaboration
S.T.A.R Program Brings Together Researchers from North America’s
Leading Prostate Cancer Centers
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Safeway Inc. and the Prostate
Cancer Foundation today announced they will collectively donate $6 million
to fund the S.T.A.R. Program (for Special Team Amplification of Research),
an innovative research initiative […]

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