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ei-Nav/Artemis Helps Pinpoint Prostate Cancer, Provides a Map for Follow-up Care
POSTED: May 6, 2008GRASS VALLEY, Calif. -- A new imaging device, ei-Nav/Artemis(TM), now officially cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), offers urologists breakthrough technology that will significantly help in the fight against prostate cancer. Artemis, designed by Eigen, a Northern California-based company known for developing innovative, af...
Sunflower Seed Halts Prostate Cancer
POSTED: May 2, 2008A tiny protein found in sunflower seeds is showing potential as a new therapy to stop aggressive prostate cancer tumours spreading to the bone. Australian scientists have developed a novel way of preventing enzymes from breaking down the connective tissue around tumours that allow cancer cells to migrate to other parts of the body. The preliminary...
When To Wait And When To Treat? New Program Will Search For Biomarkers In Men With Prostate Cancer To Help Find An Answer
POSTED: May 2, 2008SEATTLE -- Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have a lead role in a new public/private partnership to create the first systematic surveillance program of men with prostate cancer to look for biological clues to help determine when to wait and when to treat the disease. The project was announced by the Canary Foundation and the...
New Study Raises Questions About Prostate Cancer Therapies Targeting Insulin-like Growth Factor Receptor
POSTED: May 2, 2008SEATTLE -- Therapies under development to treat prostate cancer by inhibiting the ability of insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) to activate its target receptor could have unexpected results, especially if a major tumor suppressor gene -- p53 -- is already compromised, according to new research by investigators at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research ...
Exercise May Lead To Faster Prostate Tumor Growth
POSTED: April 25, 2008Prostate tumors grew more quickly in mice who exercised than in those who did not, leading to speculation that exercise may increase blood flow to tumors, according to a new study by researchers in the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center (DCCC) and the Duke Prostate Center. "Our study showed that exercise led to significantly greater tumor growth than a...
Celebrex-Lipitor Combo May Halt Prostate Cancer
POSTED: April 25, 2008Researchers at Rutgers' Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy have shown that administering a combination of the widely used drugs Celebrex (celecoxib, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug) and Lipitor (atorvastatin, a cholesterol lowering drug) stops the transition of early prostate cancer to its more aggressive and potentially fatal stage. Prostate canc...
Data Shows Bavituximab Equivalent Plus Docetaxel Reduces Tumor Growth By Up To 95% And Halts Metastasis In A Model Of Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer
POSTED: April 25, 2008Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing targeted monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of cancer and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, announced that preclinical data presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) shows that a mouse equivalent of Peregrine's a...
Blocking The Effect Of Inflammation-causing Cells Lowered Prostate Cancer Cells Invasion
POSTED: April 25, 2008Recent studies have suggested an association between chronic inflammation and cancers of the prostate, colon, stomach and liver. Now scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine report success in blocking an early step in metastasis of prostate cancer cells by interrupting the communication between the cancer cells and other cells t...
Blocking The Effect Of Inflammation-causing Cells Lowered Prostate Cancer Cells Invasion
POSTED: April 18, 2008Recent studies have suggested an association between chronic inflammation and cancers of the prostate, colon, stomach and liver. Now scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine report success in blocking an early step in metastasis of prostate cancer cells by interrupting the communication between the cancer cells and other cells t...
Chemicals In Plastic Worry U.S. Agency
POSTED: April 18, 2008WASHINGTON -- A draft report from a U.S. government agency said exposure to bisphenol A in plastic may pose serious health risks. The National Institutes of Health's National Toxicology Program urged further study of possible links between the chemical and breast cancer, prostate cancer, early puberty in girls and hyperactivity, The Washingto...
