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Men and women discussing prostate cancer

All about prostate cancer, including symptoms and causes, tests to diagnose cancer of the prostate, treatment including surgery, hormone therapy, chemotherapy, HIFU (high intensity focused ultrasound) and current research, including abiraterone and cabazitaxel. Living with prostate cancer covers coping with your diagnosis, urinary problems and your sex life.

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Press release: Prostate cancer lifetime risk trebles in 25 years
Boys born in 2015 will have almost three times the risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point during the...
23 Jan 2013
News: Israeli researchers developing BRCA 'radiation' test
A new blood test that measures cells' response to radiation could detect inherited faults in a person's BRCA genes, acco...
22 Jan 2013
Press release: World-first tissue study could re-shape future of advanced prostate cancer treatment
The first-ever comprehensive study of prostate cancer tissue has revealed a completely new gene network driving the dise...
20 Dec 2012

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News: Tissue study turns tables on prostate cancer
As we heard yesterday, a man’s lifetime risk of developing cancer is set to climb to one in two by 2027, and one of the…
20 Dec 2012
News: Notes from NCRI conference (day 4)
Before the final day of the conference started, we once again awoke to news stories based on research presented over the…
7 Nov 2012
News: Cancer death rates continue to fall
Today our stats team has published new data, forecasting that the proportion of people who die from cancer will continue…
25 Sep 2012
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