Novel Therapeutic Strategy For Erectile Dysfunction
3/18/2013
Transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells cultivated on the surface of nanofibrous meshes could be a novel therapeutic strategy against post-prostatectomy erectile dysfunction (ED), conclude the authors of a study which is to be presented at the 28th Annual EAU Congress later this week...
Multi-peptide vaccination therapy combined with the low-dose steroid drug dexamethasone shows promise in treating chemotherapy-naive castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) patients...
In Men With Localized PCa, Surgery Is Superior To Radiotherapy: Swedish Study
3/18/2013
Surgery offers better survival benefit for men with localised prostate cancer, according to a large observational study, conducted by a group of researchers in Sweden and the Netherlands. The study won the second prize for best abstract in oncology at the 28th Annual EAU Congress which opened in Milan 15 March...
Childhood Cancer And Survivor Fertility
3/18/2013
As success rates in treating childhood cancers have improved, greater emphasis is being placed on quality of life issues following successful treatment. Many cancer treatments can lead to infertility, but there are few methods to preserve the fertility of children who have not entered puberty...
How Vitamin E Can Help Prevent Cancer
3/18/2013
Researchers have identified an elusive anti-cancer property of vitamin E that has long been presumed to exist, but difficult to find. Many animal studies have suggested that vitamin E could prevent cancer, but human clinical trials following up on those findings have not shown the same benefits...
For Children With Hurler's Syndrome, Cord Blood Effective Alternative To Matched Donor Stem Cells
3/18/2013
Transplants of blood-forming stem cells from umbilical cord blood may be an effective alternative to transplants of matched donor bone marrow stem cells to treat children with a rare, debilitating disease known as Hurler's syndrome (HS), according to results of a study published online in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH)...
Kinase Inhibitors Could Keep Cancer Patients Alive For Much Longer
3/18/2013
Kinase inhibitors, a class of cutting-edge cancer medications, could keep patients alive for far longer than is currently possible after scientists from the University of Sussex and The Institute of Cancer Research, England, discovered how they attack tumors...
Staggeringly Low Uptake Of HPV Vaccine Points To Failures In Patient Education, Vaccine Programs
3/18/2013
Completion rates for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine series across both genders continue to remain alarmingly low nearly seven years after its introduction, suggesting that better patient education and increased public vaccine financing programs are needed, according to new research from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)...
Promising New Cancer Diagnostic Technique
3/18/2013
Cancer cells break down sugars and produce the metabolic acid lactate at a much higher rate than normal cells. This phenomenon provides a telltale sign that cancer is present, via diagnostics such as PET scans, and possibly offers an avenue for novel cancer therapies...
Link Between Smoking And Worse Urothelial Cancer Prognosis, Especially For Women
3/18/2013
Smoking significantly increases individuals' risk of developing serious forms of urothelial carcinoma and a higher likelihood of dying from the disease, particularly for women. That is the conclusion of a recent study published in BJU International...