Dendreon may face years of work to get the prostate cancer treatment to the market.
We began promoting and using the prostate-specific antigen test before it had been adequately evaluated.
Doctors implant 100 or so tiny radioactive pellets into the prostate during a short operation.
Even these larger tumors typically aren't deadly as long as they are contained within the prostate.
However, the prostate problem was uncovered during a quarterly cancer checkup, according to sources.
The prostate gland is found near the bladder in men, being responsible for producing a component of semen.
In 1993 Milken founded the Prostate Cancer Foundation, which funded high-risk projects that federal agencies might have eschewed.
Prostatitis is swelling and inflammation of the prostate gland, a walnut-sized gland located directly below the bladder in men.
The prostate drug CyPat and the oral contraceptive Seasonale are in final-stage trials.
Charities like the Prostate Cancer Foundation, which counts Movember as one of its biggest funders, commends the group's contributions.
Surgeons are learning how to remove the prostate without causing the problematic nerve damage which was inevitable in the past.
The Prostate Cancer UK said more research efforts should be channelled into finding a better screening test for the disease.
Diadexus' main focus is finding better diagnostic tests for deadly tumors of the prostate, colon, lung, breast, bladder and ovary.
In this delicate procedure the prostate is removed while every effort is made to keep one or both nerves intact.
The Prostate Cancer Charity welcomed the research and said it hoped the team would win funding for a larger study.
The prostate is a small, walnut-sized gland situated near the bladder in men which produces one of the components of semen.
To test their technology, Rabiner and Hare used it to experimentally treat prostate enlargement, where the prostate grows and compresses the urethra.
In early-stage prostate cancer, the gold standard of treatment for the past 25 years has been the surgical removal of the prostate.
In a 20-minute procedure, the operation involves pinning open the prostate with four clips to move obstructive tissue out of the way.
In the late 1980s computer-aided techniques used data from CT scans to mold the radiation beams to the shape of the prostate.
In 1993 Milken founded the Prostate Cancer Foundation, which funded high-risk projects that federal agencies might have eschewed (see sidebar, p. 104).
Surgery to remove the prostate gland offers the best chance of eliminating the disease but carries a risk of impotence and incontinence.
First, PSA levels generally increase with age and can be inflated because of more benign problems in the prostate, leading to false-positive results.
Approvals in the U.S. and Europe had allowed for the launch of new drugs like the prostate drug Zytiga and the pain drug Nucynta.
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And radiotherapy technology advances mean that far higher doses can be targeted more precisely on the prostate, killing more cancer cells with fewer treatments.
However, for those whose cancer is more aggressive, either already spreading or liable to spread beyond the prostate, or surgery is usually the first option.
Another option that has taken hold in recent years, radioactive seeds, aims to minimize side effects by placing the radiation source directly inside the prostate.
Complicating matters further: The urethra passes through the center of the prostate and must be reconnected back to the bladder once the prostate is removed.
Delivering acoustic energy through the urethra cut tissue, relieving the prostate.
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