The leading source for credible citizen reporting

Report Your News
Take the tour...

Faulty Gene Doubles Risk of Prostate Cancer

Source: Pak Tribune
Islamabad : Pakistan | about 1 month ago  
Views: 3
are nearly twice as likely to develop prostate cancer as other men, a new study finds. Researchers assessed 2,000 Polish men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer between 1999 and 2005, and compared them to 5,500 healthy people. The missing sections (exons 9 and 10) were noted in 15 (0.8 percent) of...
  • Print
  • Share:
  • Share
  • Digg
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Stumbleupon

Related Allvoices Contributions

News Stories
 
  • News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | about 1 month ago
    But that form of screening will transition to something else, he predicted. He cited the progress that's already been made in treating breast cancer, arising from work done by the city's medical community. "Norman Wolmark and Tom Julian are world-...
  • News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | about 1 month ago
    Nelson, co-director of the Prostate and Urologic Cancer Center at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, said that conviction is upheld by a European study, published March 26 in the New England Journal of Medicine. An Oct. 21 Journal of the...
  • News Source: Pak Tribune | about 1 month ago
    are nearly twice as likely to develop prostate cancer as other men, a new study finds. Researchers assessed 2,000 Polish men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer between 1999 and 2005, and compared them to 5,500 healthy people. The missing...
  • News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | about 1 month ago
    An article in the Oct. 21 Journal of the American Medical Association challenged the validity of previous studies that claim screening significantly reduces the number of deaths in those two cancers. In turn, a New York Times story reported that day...
Blogs
 >
  • Blog Source: cancer.suite101.com
    Benefits of cancer screening for breast and prostate cancer may have been overstated because there has not been a significant reduction in deaths from the two diseases.
  • Blog Source: medicine-opera.com
    It analyzes screening for breast and prostate cancer. Critics of both screening tests (including me) have pointed out the problems inherent in screening for any disease, but most specifically these two. We mostly have been ignored. ...
  • Blog Source: www.ourbodiesourblog.org
    A commentary in the current issue of the journal JAMA addresses breast and prostate cancer screening and the complexities and limitations of current screening.
  • Blog Source: www.healthiertalk.com
    At the same time, the analysis, "Rethinking Screening for Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer" also found that both screening tests are not making much of a dent in the number of cancers that actually are of a deadly variety. ...
  • Blog Source: blog.targethealth.com
    The New York Times, October 2009, by Gina Kolata – The American Cancer Society, which has long been a staunch defender of most cancer screening, is now saying that the benefits of detecting many cancers, especially breast and prostate, ...
  • Blog Source: rntalk.nursezone.com
    What will I say when asked about continuing with screenings for prostate cancer and breast cancer? I'll encourage women to continue to get those mammograms, and for men, the digital exams and PSA (with the caveat that the numbers can be ...
Images
 >
 
Videos
 >
 
Report Your News Got a similar story?
Add it to the network!

Or add related content to this report

Cell phones Cell phones use report code: @4548722

Most Popular Reports

Related Allvoices Reports

Contributions

Help and Accounts


Use of this site is governed by our Terms of Use Agreement and Privacy Policy.

© Allvoices, Inc 2008-2009. All rights reserved.