Radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy) uses high-energy beams or subatomic particles to damage the DNA inside prostate cancer cells. After enough damage, the cells cannot multiply, and they die.

Focal therapy now helping in the fight against prostate cancer With focal therapy, doctors are now able to destroy cancer cells without damaging the surrounding nerves and tissue. In today’s ...

A 64-year-old long-distance runner, Todd Elworthy was alarmed and confused when his routine prostate specific antigen (PSA) test was elevated in 2023, and a biopsy came back positive for prostate ...

A study co-led by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that most of the benefits of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer occur within the first ...

“Grey’s Anatomy” star James PIckens Jr. says he’s cancer-free following a prostate cancer diagnosis. Pickens Jr., who has played Dr. Richard Webber, for more than 450 episodes of the medical drama, ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is tightening restrictions on a gene therapy used to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy after two teenagers died from liver failure linked to the medication. The ...

We conducted an international, open-label, randomized, blinded-outcome-assessment trial involving 1284 patients who had undergone successful catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation at least 1 year ...

The patient who was hospitalized after receiving Intellia Therapeutics’ CRISPR therapy nex-z has died. Both phase 3 studies of the candidate remain on hold as the biotech works to understand ...

Electroacupuncture targeting the sacral nerve may promote early return of urinary continence after nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy. Electroacupuncture to the Ciliao, Zhongliao, and Xialiao ...

Florida Medicaid program’s therapy network in disarray with providers unpaid and sessions canceled. Christopher O’Donnell is the health and medicine reporter. He can be reached at ...

Ryan Seacrest’s father, Gary Seacrest, has died after battling prostate cancer. “It is with a heavy heart that I share with you that my loving father peacefully passed away earlier this week,” Ryan, ...

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