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May 30, 2013

Prostate Cancer Study Finds Key to Fighting 10% of Tumors

Better treatments for certain aggressive prostate cancers may stem from the targeting of a specific protein on the surface of some prostate cancer cells, according to a new study. In the study, drugs that targeted the protein, which is called SPINK1, shrank prostate cancer tumors in mice by 74 percent....

May 30, 2013

Obesity Increases Risk of Advanced Prostate Cancer

Obesity seems to have a complex relationship with prostate cancer — it increases men's risk of developing an aggressive form of the disease, but may lower the risk of developing a less-threatening form, a new review suggests. The mechanisms behind these different effects on men's risk, however, are unclear, study...

May 30, 2013

Rare Gene Mutation Increases Prostate Cancer Risk, Research Finds

Researchers have identified a rare genetic mutation that appears to significantly increase men's risk of prostate cancer. Men who have the mutation are 10 to 20 times more likely to develop prostate cancer than those without the mutation, the researchers said. In particular, the mutation increases the risk of hereditary...

May 30, 2013

Obese Men Face Higher Risk of Advanced Prostate Cancer

Obese men with prostate cancer face a higher risk of their cancer worsening than men of normal weight, according to a new study. Obese men (who have a body mass index, or BMI, of 30 or higher) are three times more likely to have their cancer progress to a more...

May 30, 2013

Pan-Frying Red Meat Is Asking for Trouble, Prostate Cancer Study Finds

When it comes to eating meat, a guy's choice of what he eats and how it is cooked may affect his risk of having advanced prostate cancer, a new study says. Men in the study who ate more than 1.5 servings of pan-fried red meat per week were 30 percent...

May 30, 2013

Screening Test Reduces Prostate Cancer Deaths, Study Finds

Prostate cancer screening does save lives, although screening may have to be done for many years in order to provide a benefit, according to a new study. In the study, men who were screened for prostate cancer using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test were about 30 percent less likely to...

May 30, 2013

PSA Test at Age 60 Predicts Risk of Death from Prostate Cancer

A single blood test at age 60 accurately predicts the risk of a man dying from prostate cancer in the next 25 years, a new study suggests. The blood test, already widely used for prostate cancer screening, detects levels of a protein called prostate-specific antigen, or PSA. Some health-care providers...

May 31, 2013

Prostate Cancer: Can New Tests Reduce Unnecessary Treatment?

Two new genetic tests may help better predict which prostate cancers are aggressive and need immediate treatment, and which do not need treatment right away, researchers say. One test, called Prolaris and manufactured by Myriad Genetics, looks for specific genes that control a cancer cell's abilities to divide and multiply....

Jun 10, 2013

Vegetable Fat May Help Prostate Cancer Patients Live Longer

For men with prostate cancer, consuming vegetable fats — like those found in olive oils, nuts and avocados — instead of animal fats or carbohydrates may bring a longer life, according to new research. In the study, prostate cancer patients who substituted 10 percent of their daily calories from carbohydrates...

Jul 17, 2013

Advanced Prostate Cancer Patients May Live Longer with New Drug

Men with advanced prostate cancer may live longer after receiving a new type of targeted radiation treatment, a new study suggests. In the study, men given the treatment — a radioactive drug that specifically targets tumors in bone — lived 14.9 months on average after their diagnosis, while those who...

Aug 14, 2013

Baldness Drug May Protect Men from Prostate Cancer

A drug used to treat an enlarged prostate and male-pattern baldness also seems to help prevent prostate cancer, a new long-term study suggests. Researchers found that middle-age and older men who took finasteride (sold as Propecia and Proscar) daily for seven years reduced their risk of prostate cancer by about...

Dec 9, 2013

Inflammation Linked to Lower Prostate Cancer Risk

Inflammation in a man’s prostate may indicate he has a lower risk of developing prostate cancer in the future, according to a new study. Researchers looked at signs of inflammation in prostate tissue samples from 6,200 men who were having biopsies to check for cancer. The men were between ages...

Jan 19, 2014

Melatonin Linked to Prostate Cancer Risk

Men with higher levels of the sleep hormone melatonin may be less likely to develop prostate cancer, a new study suggests. The research also revealed that men who had higher levels of melatonin in their urine had a 75 percent decreased risk of advanced prostate cancer, compared with men with...

Jan 30, 2014

For Prostate Cancer, Radiation Complications May Outweigh Risks (Op-Ed)

Dr. David Samadi is the chairman of urology and chief of robotic surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and is a board-certified urologist and oncologist specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of urologic diseases, kidney cancer, bladder cancer and prostate cancer. Samadi also specializes in many advanced,...

Feb 20, 2014

Advanced Prostate Cancer Linked to Mutations in 8 Genes

Men who carry mutations in eight specific genes may have an increased risk of developing an aggressive type of prostate cancer that runs in families, a new study from the United Kingdom suggests. Researchers analyzed blood samples from 191 men with prostate cancer who also had at least two relatives...