Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Heaps of positive energy

  June 19, 2012 in Features, Health on Page C5 As a runner who completed the 50-mile Le Grizz Ultramarathon in Montana as a younger man – and then did it 19 more times – Steve Heaps is slower than … 1

• Radiation enhances prostate cancer treatment

  June 7, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 CHICAGO – Doctors are reporting a key advance in treating men with cancer that has started to spread beyond the prostate: Survival is significantly better if radiation is added to …

• Prostate cancer therapy OK’d by FDA

  April 30, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 LOS ANGELES – The Food and Drug Administration approved a new immune-boosting therapy for prostate cancer on Thursday, the first therapeutic vaccine for cancer ever approved by the agency. The … 1

• Drug may shrink risk of prostate cancer

  April 1, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 LOS ANGELES – Men at an above-normal risk of prostate cancer may be able to reduce their risk of developing the disease by taking a drug already on the market. … 1

• Wait, see approach to prostate cancer

  September 22, 2009 in Features on Page C1 For men over age 65, doing nothing to treat localized, nonaggressive prostate cancer may be the best policy, according to major new research. Survival rates have improved to 94 percent …

• Approval of prostate vaccine urged

  April 29, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A7 A controversial prostate cancer vaccine that previously had been rejected by the Food and Drug Administration improves survival of patients with the advanced form of the disease more than existing …

• Prostate treatment study shows improved survival

  April 15, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 An experimental treatment that takes an entirely new approach to fighting prostate cancer extended survival in a late-stage study, its maker announced Tuesday. Seattle-based Dendreon Corp. said that its Provenge …

• More doctors advising wait-and-see for some prostate cancers

  March 3, 2009 in Features on Page C1 BALTIMORE – When Peter Bentey was diagnosed with prostate cancer, the doctor told him that he needed surgery. So did the doctor who gave him a second opinion. And the …

• Finasteride may benefit prostate health, NIH says

  February 25, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 Healthy men older than 55 who are concerned enough about the risk of prostate cancer to undergo annual PSA screening should consider taking the drug finasteride daily to reduce their …