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New urine-based test looks at 18 genes and was specifically developed to pick out those cancers that need immediate treatment over the slow-growing type. Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have developed a new urine-based test that addresses a major problem in prostate cancer: how to separate the slow-growing form of the disease unlikely to cause harm from more aggressive cancer that needs immediate treatment. The test, called MyProstateScore2.0, or MPS2, looks at 18 different genes linked to high-grade prostate cancer. In multiple tests using urine and tissue samples from men with prostate cancer, it successfully identified...

MRI of the prostate, combined with a blood test, can help determine if a prostate lesion is clinically significant cancer, research suggests A new meta-analysis suggests doctors and patients can avoid unnecessary prostate biopsies by combining MRI of the prostate findings with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) density. To doctors, clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) is prostate cancer that has a high chance of threatening a patient's life. MRI of the prostate can provide some of this information. Still, a biopsy is traditionally needed to determine how aggressive the cancer cells look. This study tested a new approach: combining MRI-based prostate imaging...

EXCLUSIVE: The late comedian went to Yorkville Endoscopy for a routine endoscopy on Aug. 28, but a doctor — who arrived with Rivers' entourage — offered to perform a biopsy after another doctor noticed 'something' on the entertainer's vocal chords, a medical source told the Daily News. The routine surgical procedure Joan Rivers was supposed to undergo turned deadly when a doctor who arrived at the clinic with the legendary comic’s entourage performed an unplanned biopsy on her vocal cords, a medical source who was briefed on the case told The News. Such a procedure is not supposed to be...

Virtual Biopsy Can Tell Whether Colon Polyp Is Benign Without Removal, Researchers Say ScienceDaily (May 22, 2008) — A probe so sensitive that it can tell whether or not a cell living within the human body is veering towards cancer development may revolutionize how future colonoscopies are done, say researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. Investigators have found that technology known as a high resolution confocal endomicroscopy probe system can determine whether a colon polyp is benign (not precancerous) - without having to remove it for examination by a pathologist. Their study, to be presented at the Digestive...

Katherine Harris to have surgery Fri Jul 7, 7:28 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. - Rep. Katherine Harris (news, bio, voting record) announced Friday she will undergo surgery later this month to remove an ovarian mass, which will be tested to determine if it is malignant. ADVERTISEMENT The 49-year-old congresswoman, who is campaigning for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, will visit Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington for preoperative testing Monday, her campaign office said in a statement. The minimally invasive surgical procedure is scheduled for July 17. Harris rose to national prominence as Florida's secretary of state during...

Asking for the prayers for my wife (Anita) who is going in for a fine needle biopsy of her thyroid today. Her doctor found a lump in her throat during her annual physical exam and has done a couple of scans in which they found nodules on her thyroid. Seems when it rains it pours, I'm just now recovering from my chemotherapy and finally getting my hair back when she had her exam.

Thank you all for your continued prayer for my fiance's mom. She was taken to the hospital yesterday and is now there on oxygen. Her biopsy reports will come in tomorrow. Right now, her health seems to be getting worse rather than better, but her spirits have risen and she and my fiance have been able to spend some time together. The rest of the family will be with her today too, so I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who's been praying. We're still hoping the doctors will be able to find out what exactly is wrong...

<p>ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) -- A hospital apologized for a laboratory mistake that resulted in the amputation of a healthy woman's breasts after she was mistakenly told she had an aggressive form of cancer.</p> <p>Dr. Daniel Foley, medical director of United Hospital, told KARE-TV in the Twin Cities that the St. Paul hospital had made changes so "this kind of mixup would never happen again."</p>