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10-minute consultation: Prostatic symptoms.
x Discuss the cause of his symptoms. Show him a picture of where the prostate is and how it causes problems. He may be worried about cancer, so explain that usually the prostate simply enlarges but that in a small minority the symptoms are due to cancer. About 1 in 14 men will develop prostate cancer at some point in their life. x Discuss plans for initial investigation, including the prostate ...
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IN 1941 research in prostatic cancer received great impetus from the discovery by Huggins and his associates 1 that remarkable regression occurred clinically in the primary neoplasm and its metastases after castration or administration of estrogen. These findings were subsequently verified by others.2 Unfortunately, the gratifying improvement manifested by most patients treated in this manner h...
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The importance of polyamines in prostatic growth and differentiation has prompted studies to evaluate the clinical relevance of the ornithine decarboxylase/polyamine system in prostatic cancer. These studies show that differences in biological behaviour of prostatic (cancer) cells are associated with changes in polyamine levels and/or the activity of their metabolic enzymes. Faulty antizyme reg...
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We have observed that the serum proteins of patients with advanced prostatic cancer rapidly return to or toward normal values following de activation of the neoplasm by anti-androgenic procedures. While there exists a variety of meth ods, more or less satifactory, for observing these changes, perhaps none is so simple or so useful as the determination of the lowest percentage of blood serum to ...
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Background: Different studies assessed the role of inflammation in malignancy of different organs. Prostatitis has been suggested as a cause of cancer and BPH. Till now, more than 100 types of human Papilloma virus (HPV) are recognized including low and high-risk groups for carcinogenesis. Among them HPV-16 and HPV-18 have shown further association with cancer. Regarding the pr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Tumor Biology
سال: 1987
ISSN: 1423-0380,1010-4283
DOI: 10.1159/000217506