prostate cancer

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Together against prostate cancer

13 Aug 2024

New, repurposed and combined treatments could soon transform prostate cancer outcomes, with DNA repair research informing promising clinical trials...

Prostate cancer risk prediction algorithm could help target testing at men at greatest risk

09 Dec 2022

Cambridge scientists have created a comprehensive tool for predicting an individual’s risk of developing prostate cancer, which they say could help...

Prostate cancer cases risk late detection due to misleading urinary focus

04 Aug 2022

Men with early, curable stages of prostate cancer are missing opportunities to have their cancer detected because national guidelines and media...

Faulty BRCA genes linked to prostate and pancreatic cancers

25 Jan 2022

Faulty versions of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are well known to increase the risk of breast cancer in men and women, and in ovarian cancer. Now BRCA1...

Online tools transform outcomes for cancer patients

21 Oct 2021

PREDICT Breast and Prostate, powerful online risk communication tools developed by Cambridge researchers, have helped thousands of patients across...

Evidence-based web tool aims to better inform and refine need for treatment in early prostate cancer

12 Mar 2019

A new tool to predict an individual’s prognosis following a prostate cancer diagnosis could help prevent unnecessary treatment and related side...

Scientists double number of known genetic risk factors for endometrial cancer

03 May 2016

An international collaboration of researchers has identified five new gene regions that increase a woman’s risk of developing endometrial cancer, one...

Fighting prostate cancer with a tomato-rich diet

28 Aug 2014

Men who eat over 10 portions a week of tomatoes have an 18 per cent lower risk of developing prostate cancer, new research suggests.

Study finds prostate cancer tests underestimate disease in half of cases

11 Apr 2014

A study published in the British Journal of Cancer suggests that tests to grade and stage prostate cancer underestimated the severity of the disease...

Micrograph showing prostatic acinar adenocarcinoma (the most common form of prostate cancer)

Scientists finally discover which prostate cancers are life-threatening

19 Nov 2013

Scientists have discovered that the presence of a specific protein can distinguish between prostate cancers that are aggressive and need further...

iCOGS is a custom Illumina iSelect® genotyping array developed for the study, Credit: Illumina

Study reveals the genetic variations that raise the risk of breast, prostate or ovarian cancer

27 Mar 2013

Over 80 regions of the genome that can increase an individual’s risk of breast, prostate and ovarian cancers have been found in the largest ever...