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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and prostate cancer are two of the most common conditions that affect the prostate, a gland that’s part of the male reproductive system. Positioned below the bladder ...

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 ...

The trial was investigating a new, potentially groundbreaking type of treatment for prostate cancer, a therapy that specifically targets a protein on the cancer cells. The treatment, part of a new ...

The prostate is a small gland located below the bladder. It produces seminal fluid, which is a component of semen. It also plays a role in hormone production and helps regulate urine flow. Conditions ...

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 ...