Men’s Health Info Blog

With a rising population of elderly patients and increasing public awareness of prostate disease, the indications for, morbidity and outcome of transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) in the elderly male requires critical review. Although the morbidity and outcome of TURP is well reported, including in the over 80-year-old, the relevance of these studies to [...]

Investigators from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and Johns Hopkins University reported the results of a genome-wide scan on 91 high-risk prostate cancer families in North America and Sweden; two of these families were African American. Of the 91 families studied, approximately one-third showed linkage to an area on Chromosome lq (HPC1), including [...]