prostate cancer is the second common form of cancer in men. detection of circulating prostate specific antigen (psa) transcripts has effectively been used for early diagnosis of prostate cancer cells. this investigation employed a reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr) technique to distinguish the patients with either localized or metastatic prostate cancer (cap) vs. benign pr...

background: prostate cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in males. tumor suppressor gene p53 plays an important role in causing cell cycle arrest and allowing apoptosis to proceed. objective: to investigate the expression of p53 protein and its relation to apoptosis and prostate cancer traditional prognostic indicators. methods: in this study expression of p53 was examined in p...

conclusions considering the fact that other major pathological causes are ruled out, many of the symptoms and signs observed in these patients were similar to those associated with flatulency-related diseases in itm. selecting treatment with oxymel was based on this view and led to improvements in the digestive and urinary symptoms according to farsi version of the ipss and nprs. case presentat...

background: men are unavoidably exposed to ambient electromagnetic fields (emf) generated from various electrical gadgets and from power transmission lines. prostate gland plays an important role in secretion of semen as largest accessory gland of male reproductive system. it seems that protection of this gland against emf is important in spermatogenesis process. objective: the goal of this stu...

conclusions psa, psa density, and gleason score should be considered together in order to more accurately predict the adverse pathologic features of prostate cancer. methods we conducted a cross-sectional study of 105 patients with localized prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy between 2006 and 2013. we recorded gleason scores and psa levels, in addition to the results of patholo...

background: metastatic prostate cancer is one of the most important cancers among men worldwide. androgen ablation therapy can be used in treatment of these patients; however, most will progress to metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer. in this regard, docetaxel has been approved to treat metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer in the united states. in this study, we aimed to inve...