Decades ago, doctors created a test to determine which breast cancer patients should receive hormone therapy. Now, ...

Hormonal changes in a man's aging body can cause the prostate to grow—resulting in urinary problems since the gland is wrapped around the urethra, as seen in this image taken from Asklepios Atlas of ...

Doctors began testing PSA levels in the 1980s to monitor diagnosed cancers. By the early 1990s, researchers promoted it for ...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a treatment for advanced prostate cancer that could eliminate a side effect so debilitating that patients often refuse the life-saving ...

Advanced imaging, particularly PSMA PET scans, enhances detection of microscopic disease, allowing for more precise treatment ...

National guidelines on prostate cancer screening with the PSA test are set by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). This independent panel of experts in preventive and primary care ...

An estimated 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, often after 65. And as terrifying as that number is, a diagnosis isn’t always quite what it seems. Today, the vast ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...

Thousands of men with incurable prostate cancer will be offered a lifeline after an about-turn on NHS treatment.

Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment which means the medicines will travel ...

Targeted therapies are medicines to treat cancer. They work differently than standard chemotherapy. Instead of killing all fast-growing cells or keeping them from dividing, targeted therapies work ...

I handed the sheet of paper to my wife. It was filled with words, necessary and important words. I couldn’t see them, though. “Brief Summary of Options for Treating Prostate Cancer,” it read across ...