Radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy) uses high-energy beams or subatomic particles to damage the DNA inside prostate cancer cells. After enough damage, the cells cannot multiply, and they die.
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 ...
Targeted therapies are medicines to treat cancer. They work differently than standard chemotherapy. Instead of killing all fast-growing cells or keeping them from dividing, targeted therapies work ...
Consider this a PSA about PSA. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in US men, excluding skin cancer, and the second-leading cause of male cancer deaths, after lung cancer. One in 6 men will be ...
At 77 years old, Tyson Johnson has been in treatment for metastatic prostate cancer for more than 20 years. “I’m the healthiest dead man you’ve ever seen,” the Carthage resident said jokingly as he ...