by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Graphical abstract. Credit: Nano Today (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.nantod.2022.101746 Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators have developed a new nanotechnology-based test that can detect and profile prostate cancers—even in microscopic amounts. Their work, published in the journal Nano Today, suggests that this “liquid biopsy” test could spare many patients unnecessary treatment-related side effects, directing them instead to effective therapies...
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Neuronal molecule makes prostate cancer more aggressive
by Thomas Jefferson University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among American men. Now, researchers have discovered key molecular players that drive prostate cancer to progress into a highly aggressive form of the disease called neuroendocrine prostate cancer that currently has no effective...
National prostate cancer trial currently testing therapy based on molecular discovery
by Cleveland Clinic Credit: Journal of Clinical Investigation (2023). DOI: 10.1172/JCI163498 A new prostate cancer therapy in clinical trials could treat patients resistant to treatment through targeting the disease on a molecular level, based on new Cleveland Clinic research. Prostate cancer affects one out of every nine men. Most patients respond to chemical or surgical castration, which stops the body...
More men diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer as PSA screening declines
After two decades of decline, cases of prostate cancer rose by 3% per year from 2014 to 2019, a new report from the American Cancer Society has found. Jan. 12, 2023, 2:42 PM MSTBy Linda Carroll More men are being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer that is less likely to respond to treatments, a new study from...
New hormonal agent may slow progression of early-stage prostate cancer during active surveillance
WOLTERS KLUWER HEALTH January 10, 2023 – For men with early-stage prostate cancer being managed by active surveillance, adding the hormonal agent apalutamide may lower the rate of positive biopsies during follow-up, suggests a preliminary clinical trial in The Journal of Urology®, an Official Journal of the American Urological Association (AUA). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters...
PET/MRI accurately predicts risk of prostate cancer recurrence after prostatectomy
by Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Left: Maximum intensity projection of 68Ga-PSMA PET in a patient with newly diagnosed prostate cancer shows intense uptake in the primary prostate lesion and focal uptake in multiple lymph nodes consistent with metastatic disease. Right: Kaplan–Meier curves show that high uptake and presence of metastatic disease on PET are...
Researchers map activity of inherited gene variants linked to prostate cancer
by UT Southwestern Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain UT Southwestern researchers have identified the molecular function of 87 inherited genetic variants that affect the risk of prostate cancer, and the majority appear to control the activity of genes located far away from the risk variants themselves. The findings, published in Cancer Discovery, could lead to better ways...
Scientists identify multiple cell types that may contribute to treatment resistance in prostate cancer
by eLife A cell-by-cell tapestry of prostate cancer progression, which the authors created by applying a technique called UMAP to the entire dataset from their study. Credit: Germanos et al. (CC BY 4.0) Researchers have characterized prostate cancer cell dynamics at a single-cell resolution across the timespan of the disease—from its beginning to the point...
Cambridge scientists develop a comprehensive tool for predicting individual’s risk of prostate cancer
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Dec 12 2022 Cambridge scientists have created a comprehensive tool for predicting an individual’s risk of developing prostate cancer, which they say could help ensure that those men at greatest risk will receive the appropriate testing while reducing unnecessary – and potentially invasive – testing for those at very low...
Electronic nose sniffs urine for traces of prostate cancer
By Rich Haridy December 04, 2022 e-nose technology for detecting prostate cancer is still in prototype form and requires further validation before broader clinical use Depositphotos New research from a team of scientists in Italy has reported successful early tests for an electronic nose system designed to sniff out prostate cancer biomarkers in urine. The...