Ed Susman

September 26, 2007

BARCELONA -- Monitoring circulating tumor cells in women with breast cancer may be help guide treatment and refine prognoses, according to preliminary data from German investigators.

September 12, 2007

ATLANTA -- A prostate cancer diagnosis should be a cardiovascular wake-up call, said researchers here.

June 14, 2007

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Sleep specialists here reviewed the problems and alternatives for treating insomnia.

June 13, 2007

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Despite disappointing performance in clinical trials, anti-insomnia drugs that improve short-wave sleep may still have a role in helping people get a good night's rest, a specialist predicted here.

March 30, 2007

NEW ORLEANS -- Cardiovascular risk is not static and intermediate risk patients may be on their way toward high risk, although that migration might be avoided or slowed by aggressive management.

February 27, 2007

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Radiation and androgen deprivation appears to bestow survival times for prostate cancer patients that are similar to the life expectancies of men of the same age who did not have cancer, researchers here reported.

February 27, 2007

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- After definitive prostate cancer therapy, there is little value in imaging studies when patients with biochemical failure are asymptomatic and have PSA levels less than 5 ng/mL, researchers here reported.

February 26, 2007

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Fusion imaging with the capromab pendetide (ProstaScint) imaging agent allows for more precise placement of radioactive seeds for brachytherapy, researchers here reported.

February 26, 2007

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Docetaxel (Taxotere)-based combination therapy using is being investigated in a dozen trials for hormone refractory prostate cancer, investigators reported here.

February 26, 2007

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- A test that tallies the number of androgen receptors in a single prostate cancer cell may be an effective predictor of disease metastasis, researchers here reported.