June 12 (UPI) --Doctors have traditionally relied on ultrasounds to examine men for prostate cancer, but the method can't pinpoint specific tumors, a new study says. When researchers combined this ...

Using an engineered common cold virus, UCLA researchers delivered a genetic payload to prostate cancer cells that allowed them, using positron emission tomography, to locate the diseased cells as they ...

Surgical removal of the prostate and surrounding lymph nodes — called radical prostatectomy — is an effective way to treat localized prostate cancer and stop the cancer's spread to other organs. If a ...

Prostate-specific membrane antigen, or PSMA, -targeted PET imaging for prostate cancer has been a breakthrough diagnosis tool in locating prostate cancer tumors for more precise treatment. The new ...

So far, “the only established risk factors for prostate cancer are advancing age, African ancestry, and a family history of ...

National guidelines on prostate cancer screening with the PSA test are set by the US Preventive Services Task Force. Marc B. Garnick, the Gorman Brothers Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical ...

BURLINGTON, Mass. & OXFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Earth Diagnostics, a molecular imaging diagnostics company, today announced the topline results from an investigational clinical trial ...

Black men are half as likely to die of prostate cancer today as they were a few decades ago. That’s good news. Still, there are racial disparities when it comes to early detection, treatment, and ...

The test seems likely to improve the diagnosis and treatment of a disease that kills 33,000 American men each year. By Gina Kolata After doctors found cancer in Dr. Mark Samberg’s prostate last spring ...

Using an engineered common cold virus, UCLA researchers delivered a genetic payload to prostate cancer cells that allowed them, using Positron Emission Tomography (PET), to locate the diseased cells ...