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Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Far fewer people who could benefit from statins ...

Because treatment of the whole prostate can lead to long-term side effects in patients with prostate cancer, interest in minimally invasive, focal treatment options has been growing for certain ...

Cribriform carcinoma and/or intraductal carcinoma on prostate histopathology was associated with higher rates of metastasis. Prostate cancer metastasis risk is increased for men with vs without ...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a treatment for advanced prostate cancer that could eliminate a side effect so debilitating that patients often refuse the life-saving ...

1 Urology-Andrology Department, Ouakam Military Hospital, Dakar, Senegal. 2 Urology-Andrology Department, Aristide Le Dantec Hospital, Dakar, Senegal. This is a retrospective descriptive study that ...

The IAEA is launching a year-long coordinated research project to develop computed tomography-based guidelines on prostate cancer contouring — a critical step in the cancer treatment process that ...

Head and neck (NH) cancers can develop in several distinct locations including the nasal cavity, sinuses, lips, mouth, salivary glands, throat, or larynx. A known side effect of head and neck (HN) ...

Proton beam radiation therapy led to 10% more patients surviving cancer of the throat after 5 years compared to traditional X-ray radiation, a new study shows, with 15% fewer side effects. “With this ...

Johnson & Johnson's Akeega is opening new fronts in prostate cancer treatment with a fresh FDA approval, making it the first precision medicine combo for patients with BRCA2-mutated metastatic ...