More articles about: Prostate Cancer
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Short-Term Health Impacts of Prostate Cancer Detection Methods
A new U-M study assesses the short-term degrees of discomfort associated with prostate MRIs and biopsies, offering insights for future prostate cancer patient care.
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New Subtype of Prostate Cancer
A new subtype occurs in 7 percent of patients
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Researchers Pinpoint New Subtype of Prostate Cancer
Tumors with alterations in the CDK12 gene were more responsive to immunotherapy, suggesting a precision medicine approach.
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Genome’s Dark Matter Sheds Light on Prostate Cancer Challenge
Researchers identify a lncRNA that provides insight into a key driver of prostate cancer — and a potential target for future therapy.
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New Prostate Cancer Risk Model Could Better Guide Treatment
A new model developed by Michigan Medicine researchers could change treatment guidelines for nearly two-thirds of men with localized prostate cancer.
Arvin George, M.D.
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New Prostate Cancer Treatment Offers Precision (and Fewer Side Effects)
Recently adjusted prostate cancer treatment guidelines based on new prostate research could affect two-thirds of men
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Reducing Overtreatment in Cancer Patients: When Is Active Surveillance Appropriate?
Learn when active surveillance of low risk thyroid, prostate and breast cancer, may be appropriate and whether this approach could reduce overtreatment.
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Make Prostate Cancer Awareness a Priority This Father’s Day, Survivor Urges
After his own treatment for prostate cancer, one father and husband encourages all men to learn more about the disease.
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Active Surveillance of Prostate Cancer May Still Be an Option for Men with a Family History
A new review finds that a family history of prostate cancer should not automatically exclude low-risk patients from an active surveillance approach.
Prostate Cancer Biopsy
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How Technology Is Making Prostate Cancer Biopsies More Precise
Learn more about how Michigan Medicine specialists are combining new techniques to improve prostate cancer diagnosis.
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Finding a Way to Hit an ‘Undruggable’ Prostate Cancer Target
A novel strategy to target a genetic anomaly that occurs in half of all prostate cancers may provide a path for developing new therapies against it.
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Prostate Cancer and Hereditary Risk: A Doctor Explains the Connection
Some genetic mutations linked to breast cancer also can affect men, but in a different way. A Michigan Medicine urologist explains the connection.
A doctor talking to a patient about prostate cancer
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Prostate Cancer Treatment Rates Drop, Reflecting Change in Screening Recommendations
Prostate cancer screenings have dropped, but prostate cancer treatment remains high. Learn more about the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of prostate cancer.
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Prostate cancer survivor Rodney Dan Marolf
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Portraits of Progress: a Prostate Cancer Patient Documents His Treatment
Rodney documented his prostate cancer treatment by taking a picture after every chemotherapy treatment. Learn more about Rodney's prostate cancer survival story.