Many of us know someone who's faced side effects of cancer treatment, like hair loss or debilitating nausea. Their ...
For many men with prostate cancer, weeks of daily treatments are no longer the norm. Jonathan Tward, MD, a radiation oncologist at Huntsman Cancer Institute, explains how image guidance, real-time ...
For men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer, radiation treatment has long meant a difficult trade-off: either endure ...
Five-treatment stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) provided excellent long-term cancer control with fewer urinary and ...
Learn about common side effects of radioligand therapy for metastatic prostate cancer and effective strategies to manage them for better outcomes.
Thousands of men with prostate cancer could avoid the debilitating urinary and sexual side effects of surgery, thanks to a ...
PROSTOX test predicts urinary side effects in prostate cancer patients using microRNAs to assess genetic risk factors. The test identifies high-risk patients, who are 10 to 12 times more likely to ...
Radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy) uses high-energy beams or subatomic particles to damage the DNA inside prostate cancer cells. After enough damage, the cells cannot multiply, and they die.
A national study of more than 20,000 men with prostate cancer compared long-term outcomes after radiation therapy or surgical removal of the prostate, with follow-up of up to 20 years. Men who ...
Men get told about the big two, which are incontinence and erectile dysfunction, usually in one sentence during a consultation where they were still processing the word cancer. The rest of the list ...
UCLA investigators present the latest radiotherapy research at the American Society for Radiation Oncology annual meeting Sept. 26-30 in Boston.
Men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer face a range of treatment options, from robotic surgery and focal therapy to ...