Sentences with phrase «detecting early prostate cancer»

Published in Urology in April 2007 by Johns Hopkins University researcher Robert Getzenberg and his team, the paper reported that a novel protein in blood could be used as a sensitive test for detecting early prostate cancer.

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An implant of genetically engineered skin cells has been designed to grow darker in colour when it detects early breast, prostate and colon cancers

A new screening tool for prostate cancer, the prostate - specific antigen test, enabled doctors to detect it earlier in more men, and patients were flocking to hospitals for low doses of conventional photon radiation.

If detected at early stages the prognosis is quite favorable; however, aggressive forms of metastatic prostate cancer spread primarily to the skeleton.

Edward Messing, the senior author of the study, says that PSA is capable of detecting the disease earlier, which could, in theory lead to fewer deaths from prostate cancer.

«New three - in - one blood test opens door to precision medicine for prostate cancer: Test picks out men for treatment, detects early signs of resistance and monitors cancer's evolution over time.»

A recently developed drug was significantly better at detecting recurring prostate cancer in early stages, in research published in the August 2015 issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Due to prostate specific antigen testing (PSA), most of these cancers are detected early, long before they cause symptoms.

Prostate cancer and metastatic melanoma are both difficult cancers to detect early, and once detected late they are nearly always impossible to cure, causing mortality within three years despite surgery and conventional therapies.

Anyone would want to have their prostate cancer detected early.