Monthly Archives: September 2009

Prostate Cancer: Who Needs Chemical Castration?

Prostate Cancer: Who Needs Chemical Castration? Men with locally advanced prostate cancer treated with radiation need 3 years — not 6 months — of difficult hormone therapy, a clinical trial shows.

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Group Takes Aim at Prostate Cancer Claims

Group Takes Aim at Prostate Cancer Claims A consumers group complained to regulators and threatened a lawsuit Thursday over what it calls a drug company’s misleading claims that two of its multivitamins reduce the risk of prostate cancer.

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New Therapy May Fight Prostate Cancer

New Therapy May Fight Prostate Cancer Mayo Clinic researchers say an experimental treatment may have cured two patients whose prostate cancers were so advanced they had been considered inoperable.

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