A study that tracked midlife and older men for more than 20 years has found that vigorous exercise and other healthy lifestyle habits may cut their chances of developing prostate cancer by up to 68 percent.
Read MoreCyberknife and da Vinci surgery are two different treatment methods that may be recommended by a urologist when a man is diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Read MoreThe new work suggests that it's especially important for healthy men to be given information about the early results of available clinical trials that have been shown to reduce PSA failure, according to the study's authors.
Read MoreAccording to a recent study in the journal of BMC Urology, a higher percentage of men participating in high levels of physical activity 5-7 times per week preoperatively had a reduced need for sick leave after radical prostatectomy.
Read MoreA mathematical model that uses four consecutive prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test results from a patient who had prostate cancer surgery can predict the time it might take for the disease to relapse.
Read MoreIf your man is diagnosed with prostate cancer, his 15-year relative survival rate is 95 percent – and it can be even higher if you are standing by him for the battle.
Read MoreChoosing to eat a healthy diet may reduce the occurrence of prostate cancer and possibly help curtail the progression of prostate cancer.
Read MoreA lesser known and less talked about problem that affects up to one in six men during sometime of their life is called prostatitis.
Read MoreADT is frequently combined with radiation therapy for the treatment of men with intermediate- or high-risk prostate cancer. No evidence suggests that this treatment platform benefits patients with low- or favorable-risk disease.
Read MoreAccording to the Prostate Cancer Foundation, African American men are 64% more likely to develop prostate cancer compared with Caucasian men and are nearly 2.4 times more likely to die from the disease.
Read MoreCancer researchers have applied a comprehensive set of analytical tools to lethal cases of metastatic prostate cancer, yielding a detailed map of the complex networks of interactions among genes and proteins that enable prostate cancer cells to proliferate and evade treatment.
Read MoreResearchers examined records of 9,108 obese men who underwent radical prostatectomy (removal of the prostate gland and some surrounding tissue). Among all patients, 60.4 percent underwent robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy and 39.6 percent underwent open prostatectomy.
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