Prostate carcinomas located in the transition zone are suspected to behave differently from the more frequent peripheral zone cancers. In this study, large transition zone prostate cancers were ...
We constructed 281 3-D prostate models from radical prostatectomy specimens. All prostates were step-sectioned in 4 μm sections at 2.25 mm intervals, and each slice was segmented by a pathologist to ...
Any diagnosis of cancer will have its own method of staging of the cancer detected. Cancer staging is a way to describe how much cancer is in your body and where it is located. Staging of prostate ...
A genetic variant implicated in several cancers by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has been found to drive increased expression of a known oncogene in the prostate. The study, published July ...
Men with anterior and posterior prostate tumors have similar rates of biochemical failure, metastasis, and cancer-specific mortality after radical prostatectomy, a study found. Men with ...
Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of carcinomas known to afflict men in the United States. The condition is also one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths among males of all ...
The prostate is located just below the bladder. In young men, it’s about the size of a walnut. The prostate usually grows slowly. It can take years (or decades) to grow large enough to cause problems.
MRI technology has been melded with a traditional ultrasound prostate exam to create a three-dimensional map of the prostate that allows physicians to view growths that were previously undetectable.