Sentences with phrase «diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer»

In 2002, at age 48, I was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer.

Similarly men with these gene variants were three times more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer (Gleason 8 or more).

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Depressed men with localized prostate cancer were more likely to be diagnosed with more aggressive prostate cancer, received less effective treatments and survived for shorter times than prostate cancer patients who were not depressed, a UCLA study has found.

But although the drug, called finasteride, caused a 25 % reduction in prostate cancer, it also boosted the risk of aggressive prostate cancer among those diagnosed with the disease.

Men with these mutations are more likely than non-carriers to contract aggressive, lethal prostate cancer, to be diagnosed at a more advanced stage and to ultimately die of the disease, researchers say.

I think we all agree that we over treat prostate cancer in this country compared to what you see in Europe with similar outcomes and so but I think this is where the human or the Cancer Genome Project or at least better biomarkers for looking at mutations that we already know occur in these diseases I think hopefully within the next few years every single patient who is diagnosed with prostate cancer those biopsies will be characterized and then the patients followed, hopefully watchful waiting and we'll ultimately get a correlation between what mutational events predict a rather dormant disease as opposed to a very aggressive dicancer in this country compared to what you see in Europe with similar outcomes and so but I think this is where the human or the Cancer Genome Project or at least better biomarkers for looking at mutations that we already know occur in these diseases I think hopefully within the next few years every single patient who is diagnosed with prostate cancer those biopsies will be characterized and then the patients followed, hopefully watchful waiting and we'll ultimately get a correlation between what mutational events predict a rather dormant disease as opposed to a very aggressive diCancer Genome Project or at least better biomarkers for looking at mutations that we already know occur in these diseases I think hopefully within the next few years every single patient who is diagnosed with prostate cancer those biopsies will be characterized and then the patients followed, hopefully watchful waiting and we'll ultimately get a correlation between what mutational events predict a rather dormant disease as opposed to a very aggressive dicancer those biopsies will be characterized and then the patients followed, hopefully watchful waiting and we'll ultimately get a correlation between what mutational events predict a rather dormant disease as opposed to a very aggressive disease.

But then a friend was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of prostate cancer and I got involved in helping rehab his pelvic floor through what I knew from teaching women.

I was diagnosed — through a number of tests beyond PSA levels — with an aggressive prostate cancer, which has been successfully treated by surgery.