Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

President Biden's diagnosis with metastatic prostate cancer highlights some of the progress made in treatments of the disease, as well as some of its challenges. NPR's consumer health correspondent ...

About 40% of cancers among Americans can be attributed to potentially modifiable factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity. If a widely reported study from earlier this year ...

When prostate cancer has spread beyond the prostate to nearby lymph nodes and other areas of the body and treatments can no longer slow or stop its growth, you are not alone. Many patients, despite ...

Prostate cancer develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. When the cancer spreads to distant areas of the body, it is considered end-stage prostate cancer. There is no cure ...

Researchers in Denmark conducted a prospective single-centre study including 160 patients with newly diagnosed high-risk prostate cancer between 2021 and 2024. All the participants first underwent an ...

What happens if PSA levels start rising after surgery or radiation for prostate cancer? Up to a third of men treated for the disease will eventually confront this problem. If there's no accompanying ...

Every September, countries across the world observe Prostate Cancer Awareness Month to highlight the importance of prostate health and early detection. It was first declared by the American Foundation ...

CT scans are used to investigate all sorts of medical issues, from checking for brain bleeding after a kid takes a hard hit on the soccer field, to revealing what a bike accident did to a cyclist’s ...