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General Cancer Resources |
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Coping with Cancer
Managing side effects and complications caused by cancer and its treatment.
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Support and Resources
Information about cancer support organizations, finances, insurance, home care, and hospice care.
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Educational Materials About Clinical Trials
Types of trials, how they work, risks and benefits of taking part.
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Healing philosophies, approaches, and therapies used in addition to, or instead of, conventional cancer treatments.
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Definition of prostate cancer: Cancer that forms in tissues of the prostate (a gland in the male reproductive system found below the bladder and in front of the rectum). Prostate cancer usually occurs in older men.
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New cases: 192,280
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Deaths: 27,360
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See the online booklet What You Need To Know About Prostate Cancer to learn about prostate cancer symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and questions to ask the doctor.
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For an overview of research advances, see
Cancer Advances In Focus: Prostate Cancer.
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Information about treatment, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and vaccine therapy
Prostate Cancer Treatment [patient] [health professional]
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Clinical Trials to Treat Prostate Cancer
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Early Prostate Cancer
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Androgen Deprivation and Localized Prostate Cancer
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Information related to prevention, genetics, and risk factors
Prostate Cancer Prevention [patient] [health professional]
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Clinical Trials to Prevent Prostate Cancer
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Genetics of Prostate Cancer [health professional]
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The SELECT Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial
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Cancer Risk: Understanding the Puzzle
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Obesity, Weight Linked to Prostate Cancer Deaths
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Information about methods of cancer detection including new imaging technologies, tumor markers, and biopsy procedures
Prostate Cancer Screening [patient] [health professional]
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Clinical Trials to Screen for Prostate Cancer
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No Mortality Benefit from Prostate Cancer Screening
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Early Prostate Cancer
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Understanding Prostate Changes
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Information and current news about clinical trials and trial-related data
Clinical Trials for Prostate Cancer
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Prostate Cancer Trial Results
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How to Find a Cancer Treatment Trial
Resources available from the PubMed database
Cancer Topic Searches: Male Reproductive Cancers
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Cancer Topic Searches: Cancer Genetics
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Cancer Literature in PubMed
Includes NCI-supported research, funding opportunities, and special reports
NCI Funded Research Portfolio
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Prostate SPOREs
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Prostate SPORE National Biospecimen Network Pilot
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State of the Science: Genitourinary Cancer
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Prostate Cancer Progress Review Group Report
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Prostate Cancer Progress Report
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Saw Palmetto Fails in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Information related to cancer incidence, mortality, and survival
Cancer Stat Fact Sheet: Cancer of the Prostate
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Snapshot of Prostate Cancer
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Prostate Cancer Trends, 1973-1995
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Finding Cancer Statistics
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Understanding Cancer Statistics
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