Health News and Information - News Medical | Prostate Cancer - Jan 10, 2018 Edition

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January 10, 2018     Prostate Cancer     The latest prostate cancer news from News Medical

Study suggests new target to treat prostate cancer   Hokkaido University researchers have uncovered a cellular protein that stabilizes a tumor promoting signaling pathway, suggesting a new target to treat prostate cancer.       Rutgers researcher receives $1 million grant for international prostate cancer study   A $1 million grant from Gateway for Cancer Research will help Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Urologic Oncology Chief Isaac Yi Kim, MD, PhD, MBA evaluate the impact of surgically removing the prostate in men with metastatic prostate cancer in the United States and Asia.

Proton therapy center for treating cancer patients coming to Utah   A new cancer treatment technology is one step closer to Salt Lake City. Today Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah announced a plan to add a proton therapy center to its Cancer Hospital.

Doing more harm than good? Epidemic of screening burdens nation’s older patients   Elena Altemus is 89 and has dementia. She often forgets her children's names, and sometimes can't recall whether she lives in Maryland or Italy.       New blood stabilization method prolongs lifespan of blood samples for CTC profiling   A new blood stabilization method, developed at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine, significantly prolongs the lifespan of blood samples for microfluidic sorting and transcriptome profiling of rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs), living cancer cells carried in the bloodstream.

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