Prostate cancer treatment should reflect personal priorities, as each option—whether surgery, radiation, or hormone ...

B.C. Cancer will start sending eligible breast and prostate cancer patients to Washington state for radiation treatments beginning at the end of this month as part of a two-year temporary initiative ...

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. While many prostate cancers grow slowly and remain localized, ...

Incidental prostate cancer is typically discovered after a benign prostatic hyperplasia procedure in older men. A study compared outcomes after primary treatment.

It involved 831 men with advanced prostate cancer. Two-thirds were given the radiation drug and the rest served as a comparison group. Patients got the drug through an IV every six weeks, up to ...

Last year, the provincial government offered eligible prostate and breast-cancer patients who were waiting for radiation therapy the option of fully paid treatment at one of two cancer-care ...

In 2021, more than 30,000 people in B.C. were diagnosed with cancer. Dix says 82.9 per cent of radiation patients start treatment within four weeks, and 95 per cent within six weeks.

In the past, having metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer was like a death sentence with clinician not having much ...

B.C. Cancer chief medical officer Dr. Kim Chi said by offering the Washington state option, the agency can increase its capacity to deliver radiation therapy by an additional 50 people per week.