Gene promotes prostate cancer when ‘turned on,’ breast cancer when “turned off” Researchers at Cleveland Clinic have discovered that a gene – known as an androgen receptor (AR) – is found in both prostate and breast cancers yet has opposite effects on these diseases. In prostate cancer, the AR gene promote…

Vitamin E may have cardiovascular and brain-boosting benefits, but a new study found that men who took 400 international units of the supplement every day have an increased risk of developing prostate cancer. “The results show that men who took vitamin E alone are actually at a higher risk of developing prostate cancer by a…

A drug that can give advanced prostate cancer sufferers an extra two months to live has been rejected by the NHS’s rationing body, just days after experts said it was “futile” to keep giving chemotherapy to the terminally ill. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) said that the medicine, calle…

Two new risk indicators for prostate cancer will be unveiled at the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress [1] today (Saturday). Led by Dr David Ørsted at the Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, the first study shows that men diagnosed with benign prostate enlargement have an increased risk of developing and dyi…

In a study of complication rates following prostate biopsy among Medicare beneficiaries, Johns Hopkins researchers have found a significant rise in serious complications requiring hospitalization. The researchers found that this common outpatient procedure, used to diagnose prostate cancer, was associated with a 6.9 percent r…