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Awareness, education, motivation and screening.

Provides in depth articles and seminars by leading physicians, advocacy, resources, patient Helpline.

Offers information, support, and education about the treatment options available to those with prostate cancer.

Men who receive a reproducible prostate specific antigen (PSA) test result of 7 ng/ml (nanograms per milliliter) or greater are more likely to have a subsequent prostate biopsy compared to men with lower but still abnormal test results.

Biopsy and other tests to find out if you have prostate cancer and what stage it might be.

The prostate biopsy is the taking of tissue samples from the prostate gland and examining them underneath a microscope for cell differentiation.

New studies of a blood protein recently identified at Johns Hopkins, early prostate cancer antigen-2 (EPCA-2), may change the way men are screened for prostate cancer.

Further work will be needed to simplify the test and to examine larger numbers of men to determine its cost-effectiveness before it can be applied more widely.

Brachytherapy is a minimally invasive procedure where the doctor implants tiny permanent radioactive seeds (about the size of a grain of rice) into the prostate where they irradiate the cancer from inside the gland.

A patient's guide.

The exact causes of prostate cancer are unknown. However, research aimed at understanding how cancer cells start to grow and spread may indicate some contributing factors. These factors include:

Medications or substances causing Prostate Cancer:

What causes prostate cancer?

The only center in the world dedicated solely to the treatment of prostate cancer using brachytherapy.

In-depth exploration of prostate cancer treatment, PSA and prostate cancer prevention.