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Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr., a true pioneer in the television industry, passed away Sunday morning lengthy battle with prostate cancer. He was 82. Friends say he impacted almost every corner of TV programming for decades. If he wasn’t in front of a crowd, he was behind the camera or behind the scenes, credited with shaping [...]
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FRIDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) — A component of green tea, combined with low doses of the cox-2 inhibitor painkiller Celebrex, may be able to slow prostate cancer growth, according to a U.S. study. Previous research found that, individually, both the green tea polyphenol epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), a known antioxidant, and cox-2 inhibitors helped fight prostate [...]
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Attorney General and Tsawwassen resident Wally Oppal has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, but he says the treatment shouldn’t keep him away from his work for long. Oppal said he is scheduled to have surgery March 20, and after the initial shock of the diagnosis he is confident about his recovery. “I play basketball, I [...]
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Fifteen years follow up after studying 223 patients with localized prostate cancer showed that radioactive seed implants are a highly effective treatment in combination with conventional external beam radiation.Seed implants, also called brachytherapy, are small radioactive pellets about the size of a grain of rice. The pellets are implanted into the prostate; they deliver radiation [...]
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Dr Abdul Qadeer has satisfactorily recovered from prostate cancer surgery as the minor complication has been overcome with medical treatment. The Pakistani scientist who confessed to leaking nuclear weapons technology to North Korea, Iran and Libya is in “excellent health” following cancer surgery, the military said Saturday. Abdul Qadeer Khan is considered the father of [...]
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have come up with another reason for men to watch their diets: Low cholesterol might protect them from the most aggressive form of prostate cancer. This isn’t the first time medical researchers have linked fats to cancer and its consequences. Recent studies have linked obesity to higher death rates from [...]
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In a message on his website, former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh has announced that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Lesh revealed that he will undergo surgery in early December to have the cancer removed. “Since we’ve caught it very early, and it’s small and slow-growing, I fully expect to have a rapid [...]
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Results from the largest study of men with prostate cancer treated with high-dose, intensity modulated radiation (IMRT) show that 89 percent of men were disease free eight years later. Patients were treated at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and classified into prognostic risk groups. After an average of eight years, 89 percent of the men in [...]
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Bicalutamide (Casodex) is an antiandrogen or hormonal therapy. Daily treatment with bicalutamide is shown to cut the risk of progression of prostate cancer by 44 percent. It can also reduce the overall risk of death by 35 percent. The study was done on 1370 patients who were randomized to receive either radiation and a placebo [...]
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Hormone refractory prostate cancer is when the prostate cancer cells continue to grow after an initial period of success with hormonal therapy. Most prostate cancers are hormone dependent and require male sex hormones to grow, usually over time the prostate cancer cells develop the ability to grow in the absence of the male hormones. In [...]
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Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan was operated at the Aga Khan Hospital in Karachi on Saturday. Dr Khan was diagnosed with prostate cancer last month. He was moved from his virtual confinement in Islamabad to Karachi Thursday evening. Surgeons successfully removed the cancerous prostrate of disgraced nuclear scientist and father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, Dr Abdul [...]
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