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cancer
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It might be much bigger if the drug could be used to prevent, as opposed to treat, prostate cancer .
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This calculation, often used in arguments about screening for prostate cancer by those critical of screening and early detection measures.
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Medical experts said prostate cancer is not uncommon in men over 60.
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Even among men diagnosed as having clinical prostate cancer only one in three dies of the disease.
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Before the hearings began, Cranston announced on Nov. 8 that he was suffering from prostate cancer .
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The molecular properties of prostate cancer are being intensively investigated.
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Radiotherapy and radical prostatectomy are effective in treating locally confined prostate cancer .
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The statistics show four men who worked there have died of prostate cancer .
gland
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This includes massaging the prostate gland and massaging the urethra over a metal sound.
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The largest and most important of these is the prostate gland .
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The adult rat provides another example: it has been found that cells in its prostate gland need the hormone testosterone.
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Some men have an additional problem because an enlarged prostate gland can cause almost permanent incontinence.
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No pressure group within the medical profession is lobbying for the right to save men's lives by regularly examining the prostate .
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Of those cancers that seem to be limited to the prostate clinically, 25-35% will have lymph node metastases.
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Radiotherapy for cancer of the prostate was also in two phases but with a 25 Gray phase two, in 15 fractions.
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Screening for prostatic cancer Editor, - Fritz H Schröder makes a cogent case against widespread screening for cancer of the prostate .
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Several times Lawrence and colleagues accentuate the damaging effect of treatment on patients with cancer of the prostate .
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Since 84% of apparently localised cancers of the prostate progress if left untreated some centres advocate radical prostatectomy for early cancer.
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The cancer, according to Allen, has not spread beyond the prostate .
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This includes massaging the prostate gland and massaging the urethra over a metal sound.