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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Radiation may help when prostate cancer returns

(Dallas Morning News) UPDATED 2008-06-17
Men whose prostate cancer returns after surgery are three times as likely to survive the disease if they undergo radiation, a new study suggests. Researchers at Johns Hopkins studied 635 men and found that the risk of death for those who underwent radiation within two years of the cancer recurrence dropped by 60 percent compared to the men who "waited and watched" to see how the disease developed.  Read full story >
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