But we can readily determine which prostate cancers need treatment and which do not.
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From 1986 to 2006, 5035 patients with prostate cancer were identified, including 642 patients with lethal prostate cancers, defined as fatal or metastatic .
Hence the birth of companies such as Centocor, which makes drugs for heart disease and may soon have new ones for colo-rectal and prostate cancers.
In the case of prostate cancers, the rise in registrations is likely to be mainly due to improved detection rates and awareness of the disease among men.
The main treatment is injections of a chemical to cut levels of testosterone - the driving force of many prostate cancers - but it causes side effects.
In the UK, at least half of all prostate cancers are diagnosed in men aged 75 and over, but for faulty BRCA2 carriers the disease tends to occur earlier.
In addition to a research collaboration with UNC (to discover how specific particle properties determine distribution through the body), the company is also developing nano-enabled treatments for lung, breast and prostate cancers.
Meanwhile, health minister Andy Burnham has announced the start of a one-year pilot programme using the appeal of football to raise awareness of lung, bowel and prostate cancers in men aged 55 and over.
They found that, with a mean follow-up of 6.5 years, allocation to aspirin reduced risk of cancer with distant metastasis by 36%, risk of adencarcioma (common solid cancers including colon, lung, and prostate cancers) by 46%, and of other solid cancers (eg bladder, kidney) by 18%.
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In an analysis of cases of all but the sex-specific cancers like prostate and ovarian cancers, for example, men with the disease were more likely than women to die in each of the past 10 years, researchers found.
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"These are very compelling data, " said Dr. Durado Brooks, director of prostate and colorectal cancers at the American Cancer Society, who was not involved in the research.
In 2001 researchers at Columbia University and ucla showed in mouse experiments that MTOR drugs compensated for the loss of a protein mutated in prostate and brain cancers.
By contrast, prostate and breast cancers are often quite slow-growing, so slow in fact that many experts assert that many of these cancers are best left to their own devices.
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In addition, Nelson notes, Myriad has products on the market, including several diagnostic tests for genes that confer susceptibility to breast, prostate and colon cancers, and it sells these tests through a collaboration with Burlington, N.
Obesity and the state of being overweight substantially raises their risk of morbidity from hypertension, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea and respiratory problems, and endometrial, breast, prostate, and colon cancers.
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That makes it a promising drug target for Myriad, already well known for discovering genes linked to prostate, ovarian and breast cancers.
The statistics released on Wednesday covered a total of eight cancers, although prostate cancer was the only one in which a significant change had been noticed.
David Cunningham and Gail ter Haar have used this technique to treat liver cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, while other groups in America, China and Japan, are using high-intensity sound to kill cancers in the prostate gland, uterus and brain.
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Lung, colorectal, breast and prostate cancer make up nearly half of all cancers diagnosed in the United States.
More than a dozen cancers -- from breast and prostate cancer to pancreatic and colon cancer -- have been linked to America's epidemic of high caloric intake and lack of physical activity.
While the link to prostate cancer may sound surprising, there are other cancers caused by STDs.
Regular meat eaters (especially red meat) have a higher probability of getting cancers, such as colon cancer and prostate cancer.
In general, the U.S. has survival rates of 90% or higher for five cancers: skin melanoma, breast, prostate, thyroid and testicular.
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Cyclopamine, it turns out, blocks the function of a gene called Sonic hedgehog that is essential for embryonic development but also plays a lead role in causing deadly cancers of the pancreas, skin, prostate and esophagus.
Cancer experts increasingly question the need to treat certain slow-growing cancers that are not causing symptoms prostate cancer in particular.
Because EGF is present in more than half of all cancers, Iressa trials are under way for prostate and breast cancer.
"In prostate cancer we desperately need to tell the difference between cancers that kill and cancers we need to watch, " he said.
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The Plymouth Hospitals Trust's medical director, Dr Alex Mayor, said some cancers, such as lung cancers and some urology cases, such as prostate cancer, required a complex series of diagnostic procedures and this could cause delays.
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