Prostate news
This page includes links videos and articles by Harvard Medical School faculty on significant research breakthroughs on prostate disease recently reported in the media, as well as brief summaries of studies published in medical journals. Research summaries are sorted by topic.
Significant breakthroughs
- New drug approved for the treatment of BPH
- Video: Recent studies on PSA testing provide more evidence of little to no benefits
- Video: Prostate cancer screening not recommended in men over age 75
- Task force says no to PSA screening for older men
- Video: Disappointing results for vitamin E and selenium supplements
- SELECT trial comes to a halt
Research summaries
- Prostate cancer risk and prevention
- Blood calcium levels may be linked to prostate cancer death
- Multivitamins and prostate cancer: A new worry?
- New data show drug's benefit in preventing prostate cancer
- Lycopene, tomatoes no shield against cancer
- The jury is still out calcium
- Common genetic variations increase prostate cancer risk
- Gene combination raises prostate cancer risk
- Testosterone seen unrelated to prostate cancer risk
- Breast cancer genes pose threat to prostate health, too
- BPH drug cleared of causing aggressive tumors
- Biomarker predicts the development of hormone refractory disease
- Initial PSA tests can't distinguish lethal prostate cancers
- Midlife PSA tests may predict prostate cancer diagnosis up to 25 years later
- Urine test accurately diagnoses prostate cancer
- Obesity may affect PSA levels, delay cancer diagnosis
- Possible new blood test for prostate cancer
- Radical prostatectomy vs. watchful waiting
- Radiation therapy may up colon cancer risks
- No "home run" for proton radiation--at least not yet
- Prostate cancer "vaccine" faces hurdles
- Anxiety drives some treatment decisions
- Experimental drug shows promise against prostate cancer
- Drug combo may fight prostate cancer
- How to tell when localized cancer is advancing
- Blood test may indicate whether cancer has spread
- More surgeries, better outcomes
- Preserving penis length after radical prostatectomy
- Hormone therapy as a primary cancer treatment for older men
- Hormone therapy for prostate cancer puts heart at risk
- Focal therapy for prostate cancer?
- Investigational vaccine aids patients with metastatic prostate cancer
- Erectile dysfunction drug also may ease BPH symptoms
- FDA news and alerts: New formulation of ED drug approved; warning issued on certain ED supplements
- FDA news and alerts: Another warning issued on "natural" ED supplements
PSA testing and prostate cancer diagnosis
Prostate cancer treatment
BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia)
Erectile dysfunction
Prostatitis
Other prostate conditions
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