Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Prostate cancer

  • Simple blood tests offer telling signs of someone's genetic risk for developing hereditary diseases such as breast cancer.
  • (ABC News)
  • After decades of work, researchers have discovered a new gene variant linked with a higher risk of developing hereditary prostate cancer.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • January 11, 2012 — Researchers have discovered a rare but recurrent genetic mutation that is associated with a significantly higher risk for hereditary prostate cancer.
  • (Medscape News)
  • Last fall, the United States Preventive Services Task Force concluded that healthy men should no longer be routinely screened for prostate cancer using the prostate-specific antigen, or P.S.A., blood test.
  • (New York Times Blogs)
  • Scientists say theyve identified the first genetic mutation with a major effect on the risk of prostate cancer that runs in families and strikes men early, by age 55. The mutation accounts for only about 1 percent of all prostate cancers.
  • (AP - msnbc.com)
  • PUNE: Kalyani Group in association with Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune, on Wednesday announced that it will soon launch a state-of-the-art Institute for Prostate Cancer for research, diagnostics, treatment and education in the city.
  • (Times of India)
  • Men who inherit a rare genetic mutation are 10 to 20 times more likely than average to develop prostate cancer, a study has found.
  • (Google)
  • AFP - US researchers said Wednesday they have found the first genetic mutation linked to an inherited form of prostate cancer, raising new hope of one day improving early screening for the disease.
  • (France 24)
  • NEW YORK — Scientists say they've identified the first genetic mutation with a major effect on the risk of prostate cancer that runs in families and strikes men early, by age 55.
  • (Washington Post)

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