ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) — Cancer patients in Central Pennsylvania now have greater access to an advanced prostate cancer treatment with the launch of Pluvicto at UPMC Altoona. Beginning in April, UPMC ...

In prostate cancer, hormone therapy is treatment to keep the cancer cells from getting testosterone, the main male hormone (androgen). Hormone therapy for prostate cancer is also called ...

Vipul R. Patel, MD, FACS, is a board-certified urologic surgeon, medical director of the Global Robotics Institute at AdventHealth, and medical director of urologic oncology at AdventHealth Cancer ...

A new treatment strategy tested by UCLA researchers could offer new hope for men whose prostate cancer has returned after initial treatment. This approach could also help delay the need for hormone ...

Hormone blockade therapy, which includes both oral and injectable options, aims to slow or stop the growth of prostate cancer cells by reducing androgen levels. Injectable hormone blockade therapies, ...

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.

About 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime The average age at diagnosis is 67 Less than 1% of the 3.5 million men living with prostate cancer are expected to die from it ...

Phase I Trial of Intravesical Gemcitabine in Bacillus Calmette-Guérin–Refractory Transitional-Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder PURPOSE: To assess whether failure to maintain local control (LC) of ...

Metastatic prostate cancer is cancer that began in the prostate but has spread to other parts of the body. There's no cure, but there are a number of effective treatments you can discuss with a ...