#Prostate Cancer

The Columbiana County Health District is hosting an appointment-only Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) screening clinic for men on Thursday, June 9 at the Health District, 7360 State Route 45, Lisbon, Ohio. To schedule an appointment for the PSA clinic, call 330-424-0272. There will be no charge for residents of the General...

As an approach to personalized medicine, a new Nature Communications study proposes that "mutational footprints" of DNA repair are a promising predictive genetic marker for determining which tumors will respond to certain therapies. Cancer therapy increasingly relies on a personalized approach, where genetic changes in an individual tumor can be...

A “trailblazing” MRI scanner unveiled at Glasgow’s Beatson Centre will provide “life-changing” treatment for cancer patients, Scotland’s Health Secretary has said.Humza Yousaf officially opened the new MRI suite at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre in Glasgow.The £3.6 million scanner will provide higher definition of MR images which will allow doctors to more accurately target certain tumour types than existing CT technology.It will enabmle clinicians to fully exploit the capabilities of the latest generation of radiotherapy machines to sculpt the radiation beam with an unprecedented level of precision around the shape of the tumour.Dr David Dodds, chief of medicine,...

The first proton therapy center on Florida’s Gulf Coast is scheduled to break ground this summer on the northern edge of Estero in south Lee County with the first cancer treatments available there in 2024. Southwest Florida Proton will feature cutting-edge medical technology in a 35,000-square-foot medical building to...

Last week, the United States registered the one millionth person dying from the COVID-19 pandemic. Johns Hopkins University’s coronavirus research center put passing that historic mark on May 19, 2022 with 1,001,606 official deaths counted. About 83 million confirmed cases have been registered with the American public, with 337 new deaths on that day, and about 12,000 deaths in the past month.

An elderly lady, Cheryl Stewart, was called in for an emergency shift at her workplace, Teton High School. When she entered the premises, she found out that the school had called her in for something else. Life tests us all in different ways. Some people have to go through health...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. A new report from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council looking at data from June 2020 through June 2021 shows Geisinger Wyoming Valley conducted more surgeries in all 11 cancer categories than Wilkes-Barre General and Lehigh Valley – Hazleton.

All you redheads, or Gingers as they are also called, May 26th is your day to celebrate being one of the few redheads in the world. According to WUSA-TV, here are 10 fun facts about redheads (Gingers). Redheads make up less than 2% of the world's population. The two countries...