Molecular biomarkers can serve as useful diagnostic markers, as prognostic markers for predicting clinical behavior, or as targets for new therapeutic strategies. Application of expression microarray ...

Activation of the androgen receptor (AR) despite androgen ablation and anti-androgen therapy seems to play a pivotal role in hormone-refractory progression of prostate cancer. The above postulation is ...

The University Hospitals Urology Institute is the first health care facility in Northeast Ohio to use a new technique to diagnose prostate cancer, officials recently announced. According to UH, the ...

A University of Illinois and Mayo collaboration has demonstrated a novel gene expression analysis technique that can accurately measure levels of RNA quickly and directly from a cancerous tissue ...

Data suggest that circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] interacts with the vitamin D receptor (VDR) to decrease proliferation and increase apoptosis for some malignancies, although evidence for ...

A University of Illinois and Mayo collaboration has demonstrated a novel gene expression analysis technique that can accurately measure levels of RNA quickly and directly from a cancerous tissue ...

Earlier this week, researchers presented data from the OPTIMUM (Optimization of Prostate Biopsy – Micro-Ultrasound Versus MRI) trial at the European Association of Urology Congress in Madrid, Spain.

Scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden recently reported that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could reduce overdiagnosis and thereby improve prostate cancer screening. Now, the same team ...

A technique to improve the precision of prostate cancer surgery means that almost twice as many men preserve their erectile function compared to those undergoing standard surgery, according to results ...