Science news articles about 'prostate cancer deaths'
Androgen deprivation therapy for localized prostate cancer not associated with improved survival
... Lu-Yao, M.P.H., Ph.D., of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ-Robert Wood ... –specific mortality) there were 1,560 prostate cancer deaths and 11,045 deaths from all causes. The researchers found ...Prostatectomy improves outcome of some men with prostate cancer over watchful waiting
... Cancer Institute. The benefit from the surgery, with respect to prostate cancer death rates, remained constant beyond ... men in the surgery group died due to prostate cancer compared with 17.9 percent ...Too much calcium in blood may increase risk of fatal prostate cancer
... G. Schwartz, Ph.D., associate professor of cancer biology and of epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest, a ... focused on the 85 cases of prostate cancer and 25 prostate cancer deaths among the 2,814 ...Supplementation with vitamin E or selenium does not reduce risk of prostate cancer
... of public health implications. The number of prostate cancer deaths in the United States has declined in recent years ... University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, and Eric A. Klein, M.D ...Study methods influence estimates of lead time and overdiagnosis in prostate cancer
... cancer among U.S. men aged 50 to 84 years in 1985 to 2000. They also tested three ... treatment, are weighed against the number of prostate cancer deaths that might be prevented. Additionally the long ...US trial shows no early mortality benefit from annual prostate cancer screening
... years after the start of screening, there were 92 prostate cancer deaths in the screening group and 82 in the routine ... 8-10). The reduced number of men with prostate cancer with a Gleason score of 8-10 ...LSUHSC contributes to revealing targets to reduce racial disparity in prostate cancer deaths
... The study is published in the early view issue of Cancer online July 27, 2009. Study nurses ... to advanced disease and higher rates of death from prostate cancer for African Americans," notes Elizabeth T ...Survey: Men may not be adequately involved in decisions about prostate cancer screening
... statistical modeling to estimate the benefits and risks of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in men ... mortality benefit is small, even when prostate cancer deaths are cumulated to 85 years of age ...Prostate screening studies reviewd in European Urology July issue
... the price to pay for 20% reduction in prostate cancer deaths is high; overdiagnosis and overtreatment are great problems ... on randomised screening studies on prostate cancer (Schröder et al, NEJM 2009). ...New figures on cancer in Europe show a steady decline in mortality but big variations
... report. A recent, dramatic epidemic of oral cancer emerged in central/eastern European countries ... EU as a whole there were modest declines in prostate cancer deaths of about four percent from 1990-1994 ...
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