Prostate cancer is the most common visceral malignancy and the second leading cause of cancer death among U.S. males, with over 29,000 deaths in 2004 attributable to this disease. Age is the strongest ...

Stage 3 prostate cancer is locally advanced, with tumors extending beyond the prostate but not metastasizing distantly. Diagnosis involves the TNM system, Gleason score, PSA tests, and imaging to ...

If you are diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer, you usually have three treatment choices: monitoring (called active surveillance), surgery, or radiation therapy. Whole-gland ablation is an ...

The prostate gland has a remarkable ability to regrow itself after hormone-deprivation therapy. A new study from researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering explains why. The standard treatment for men ...

A new urology lab with advanced diagnostic testing is up and running at UPMC St. Margaret Hospital to deal with a slow but steady increase in the number of prostate cancer cases diagnosed each year.

No matter your age and health, if your physician finds your PSA is elevated, they may want to have it rechecked a few weeks ...

The standard treatment for men with advanced prostate cancer is androgen-deprivation therapy. Androgens are hormones that fuel prostate cell growth; removing them with either drugs or surgery causes ...

For more than 80 years, men have been told that testosterone fuels prostate cancer. But a more nuanced picture has emerged ...

Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-associated death in men after lung cancer. Prostate cancer is highly common in which 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with the disease in their ...

This fluorescent microscopy image shows massive cell division occurring in the mouse prostate gland. Dividing cells are red, luminal cells are green, and basal cells are white. Summary The prostate ...

The standard treatment for men with advanced prostate cancer is androgen-deprivation therapy. Androgens are hormones that fuel prostate cell growth; removing them with either drugs or surgery causes ...