health - "cancer"

The Prostate cancer Charity comments on reports that The Duke of Edinburgh has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. John Neate, Chief Executive of The Prostate cancer Charity, said: 'It is obviously a potentially difficult time when any diagnosis of prostate cancer is made.

Campaigners for the breast cancer drug Herceptin say they will not give up, no matter what Pharmac decides.

As World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7) draws to a close, the American Institute for cancer Research (AICR) urges new mothers to consider one more benefit to breastfeeding their babies: added cancer protection for mother and child. 'AICR is the first cancer organization to issue an official recommendation advocating breastfeeding in order to decrease risk of developing cancer,' said AICR Nutritionist Sarah Wally, MS RD.

A drug-like molecule called Wnt can be substituted for the cancer gene c-Myc, one of four genes added to adult cells to reprogram them to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, according to Whitehead researchers. Researchers hope that such embryonic stem-cell-like cells, known as induced pluripotent (IPS) cells, eventually may treat diseases such as Parkinson's disease and diabetes.

UroToday.com - Prostate cancer is the leading malignancy in American men and causes more than 60,000 deaths annually. Treatment of prostate cancer with either surgery, radiation therapy, cryotherapy or medical treatment is associated with significant life altering morbidity. Both incontinence and erectile dysfunction (ED) are too often sequelae of these treatment alternatives. ED can be a significant complication and can alter the life of both the prostate cancer patient and his partner.

UroToday.com - Both cryoablation and brachytherapy are well studied alternatives to radical prostatectomy. The techniques are similar in the application of the needles to deliver the treatment, planning software and algorithms to achieve the best coverage, are delivered as outpatient treatment, and efficacy. The techniques differ in that cryoablation can be utilized for radiation failures and can be repeated.

While the incidence of breast cancer in young women in the U.S. is relatively rare, there are more than 250,000 women under the age of forty that are living with the disease and 11,000 will be diagnosed in the next year. Television-star Christina Applegate's tumor was detected through magnetic resonance imaging, which was ordered by her doctor, according to her publicist.

The American Association for cancer Research is currently accepting nominations for two of the world's most prestigious awards granted to cancer researchers from a professional society of their peers. The Kirk A. Landon - AACR Prize for Basic cancer Research and the Dorothy P.

UroToday.com - Patients with the stages pT1a or pT1b prostate cancer (CaP) by definition are found to have CaP on simple open prostatectomy or TURP performed for BPH. These patients must decide if they then need definitive therapy. In the online issue of European Urology, Dr.

UroToday.com - In the August 2008 issue of cancer, Dr. Felix Chun and associates present data to discriminate between men with indolent and important prostate cancer (CaP) to help stratify those electing active surveillance (AS). The authors point out that even the criteria suggested by Dr. Epstein and the nomogram by Dr. Kattan will only have about 80% accuracy at radical prostatectomy (RP) for estimating insignificant prostate cancer (ICaP).