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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seven-time grand slam winner John McEnroe, whose father was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006, is providing his voice and image to a new campaign that promotes recently updated prostate-cancer screening guidelines. One in six men in the United States will be diagnosed with prostate cancer(1) during their lifetime, and prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death among American men.(2) The updated American Urological...
 Researchers from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center have discovered a new gene fusion that is highly expressed in a subset of prostate cancers. The results may lead to more accurate prostate cancer testing and new targets for potential treatments. Experts believe that gene fusions "” a hybrid gene formed from two previously separated genes "” may be at the root of what causes cancer cells to grow more quickly than normal cells.The new findings, published in the...
Veterans exposed to Agent Orange are at increased risk of aggressive recurrence of prostate cancer, researchers report.A study of 1,495 veterans who underwent radical prostatectomy to remove their cancerous prostates showed that the 206 exposed to Agent Orange had nearly a 50 percent increased risk of their cancer recurring despite the fact that their cancer seemed relatively nonaggressive at the time of surgery. And, their cancer came back with a vengeance: the time it took the prostate...
Weill Cornell Medical College study identifies novel type of gene fusion that may be common cancer mechanismA newly discovered gene fusion is highly expressed in a subset of prostate cancers, according to a study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College. The findings, reported in the April 1 issue of Cancer Research, may lead to more accurate tests for prostate cancer. The gene fusion biomarker is also a different type of fusion than researchers have found in cancer previously and may...
SAN DIEGO, March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardium Therapeutics (NYSE Alternext US: CXM) and its operating unit InnerCool Therapies, Inc., today reported that positive clinical findings demonstrating faster recovery of urinary continence using localized manual cooling techniques during robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy surgery will be published in the April 2009 issue of Urology and is now available online at http://www.goldjournal.net/article/S0090-4295(08)01953-5/abstract. The...
A top breast cancer expert is warning that women who choose minimally invasive breast surgeries for better cosmetic outcomes could be putting their lives at risk.In an editorial on the British Medical Journal's Web site, Monica Morrow, the chief of breast service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, wrote effectiveness and safety, as well as aesthetic outcomes, need to be considered when planning surgery for breast cancer.She said over the past 30 years, surgery has become...
Gene Therapy Studied for PreeclampsiaNew Clues to a Mysterious Pregnancy ConditionTo better understand preeclampsia, a sudden rise in maternal blood pressure and onset of kidney disease during pregnancy, researchers from Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College are studying mice that have the same affliction. Preeclampsia is the leading cause of both maternal and fetal death "” killing more than 500,000 women worldwide each year and causing 15 percent of all premature births...
New Tools Would Transform Diagnostics, Treatment; Save Lives, Health Dollars BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A group of more than 40 leaders of academia, industry, philanthropy and advocacy called today for the Obama Administration, Congress, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense to increase federal funding for research into imaging technologies for less invasive and more accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer. Meeting this week in Bethesda, Md,...
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardium Therapeutics and its operating unit InnerCool Therapies, Inc., today announced that it has developed a pelvic cooling catheter system called UroCool(TM), which is designed to induce localized cooling during surgery for prostate cancer (radical prostatectomy). The new technology is being applied in collaboration with renowned prostate surgeon, Thomas E. Ahlering, M.D., Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Urology at the...
By SEAN PATRICK NORRIS Staff Writer Baltimore Washington Medical Center is investing $1.7 million in the latest version of a robotic surgeon designed to bring new clarity and dexterity to delicate operations. By the end of October, BWMC will begin using the da Vinci Machine complete with high definition, three-dimensional imaging for non- invasive laproscopic surgery. "The advantage is you can move the instruments like you are using your hands. You can bend it like you bend your wrist....
