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Prostate cancer can affect all ages in men, from very young men through to their full adult life, and beyond into the 65. It is important to note that even though, prostate cancer is a cancer of sorts, the patients that have been killed by the cancer, is in fact, far less that those patients killed by other diseases, infections and various other circumstances. First of all prostate cancer, of course, should not be taken lightly in any case, but should be kept within its reasonable margins of explanation.

It is however, not unusual to have vast generalizations about the disease. Weighing up the pro’s and the con’s with Read the rest of this entry »

Scientists have been trying to find a cure for advanced prostate cancer or at least a solution for delaying the disease’s effects. So, they have created a vaccine that seems to improve the immune response to fight prostate cancer. The vaccine is still under clinical trials to test its complete efficiency, to adjust doses and to see if it works on less advanced prostate cancer. Eric J. Small, MD, UCSF professor of medicine and urology, along with other 19 US institutions conducted the study which was funded by the Dendreon Corporation (the developer of the vaccine) based in Seattle, Washington. They tested 31 patients who were suffering of asymptomatic metastatic hormone refractory prostate Read the rest of this entry »