LIFESTYLE NEWS - There is more to long-term health than keeping fit and eating right. Two oncologists are urging the public to become more aware of lesser known ways to reduce the risk of common ...

Significant advances in radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other cancer treatments, used either individually or in combination, ...

At 63 years old, Lester Balaszek, a retired Chicago police officer, was following the recommended guidelines. He had a PSA screening that scored a little high. A subsequent biopsy drawing 12 samples ...

This week, cancer researchers in New York are one step closer to answering a question that has plagued medical and environmental advocates for decades: What is the role of plastic exposure in the ...

Imperial College London investigators compared focal therapy with prostate removal surgery for men with prostate cancer that returned after radiotherapy. Matched analyses estimated 10-year ...

Thirty-eight years ago, I was initiated into the oldest and one of the largest Black fraternities in the world: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. It was one of the happiest days of my life. In ...

SBRT schedules for prostate cancer are emerging as a standard treatment approach. However, although high efficacy is achieved in clinical trials, additional efforts at accurate treatment delivery are ...

Wolinsky is a Chicago-based medical journalist and publisher of The Active Surveillor, a Substack newsletter that covers lower-risk prostate cancer and active surveillance. In 2002, at age 55, I ...

Stage 3 prostate cancer is locally advanced, with tumors extending beyond the prostate but not metastasizing distantly. Diagnosis involves the TNM system, Gleason score, PSA tests, and imaging to ...

Staging means finding out how far prostate cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group prostate cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being ...