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The routine use of MRI during active surveillance for prostate cancer obviates the need for another exam that some patients find uncomfortable, an expert panel agreed.
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The routine use of MRI during active surveillance for prostate cancer obviates the need for another exam that some patients find uncomfortable, an expert panel agreed.
Variants in two gene pathways appear to be directly linked to sarcoma development. The finding offers hope for earlier cancer detection and treatment, suggest researchers.
A novel cancer prevention clinic in Tel Aviv, Israel, has shown that it detects many common cancers at earlier stages than happens in the general population.
Despite a long-held belief that prostate cancer mortality is worse among Black men, in fact, it is similar or even lower than the rate in White men when social factors are equalized, suggests a new analysis.
The approach takes advantage of castration-resistant prostate cancer cells' adaptive reliance on androgen signaling.