Hispanics who move to the USA increase their risk of several types of cancer within the first generation. Increased risk of prostate, colorectal and endometrial cancer affect people who move to the USA from Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico and other Latin American nations, according to a study published August 1, 2009 in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers [...]

Proton beam therapy for prostate cancer, a treatment that attracts more than an average numbers of engineers, scientists and pilots, is coming under intense scrutiny from reporters who expect it to be questioned by the Obama adminstration’s health-care reform team.

Drop Everything and fight cancers below the waist! is the slogan of Underwear Affair, a fundraising and awareness event initiated in Canada and now reaching Los Angeles and beyond.
People hit the streets of Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Toronto and Los Angeles dressed in everything from briefs and boy-shorts to t-shirts and tracksuits to help fund life-saving [...]

Want your city to run a great Prostate Cancer Awareness event?
Watch this 6 min. video of Baltimore’s Great Prostate Cancer Challenge, Sept 14, 2008. We have details of this year’s event.

Dendreon’s prostate cancer vaccine significantly prolonged the overall survival among 500 men with advanced, metastic  prostate cancer  compared to a placebo, the company said Tuesday.
Results were “robust” and “unambiguous,” a spokesman said during today’s (Tues April 14) company broadcast conference call with biotech investment analysts.
“The successful outcome from the Phase 3 IMPACT study provides validation [...]

Merv Griffin (July 6, 1925- August 12, 2007), a pioneer in the TV entertainment industry, has died at age 82 of prostate cancer. Merv Griffin, a singer and talk show host, created the TV games Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. Diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1996, he was treated initially with brachytherapy therapy [...]

ZK-Epothilone (ZK-Epo) is a novel chemotherapy drug currently in clinical trials to see if it has an effect against advanced prostate, ovarian and breast cancer. ZK-Epo may work differently than Taxotere and other taxane drugs. It is being tested against all three cancers at centers across the USA and also in Argentina (for ovarian cancer) [...]

ZK-Epothilone (ZK-Epo) is a novel chemotherapy drug currently in clinical trials to see if it has an effect against advanced prostate, ovarian and breast cancer. ZK-Epo may work differently than Taxotere and other taxane drugs. It is being tested against all three cancers at centers across the USA and also in Argentina (for ovarian cancer) [...]

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