News: prostate cancer

Up to 10 percent of men will experience some degree of urinary incontinence after prostate cancer surgery. Benjamin McCormick, a University of Utah Health surgeon specializing in reconstructive urology discusses...

The prostate is a unique organ—one that only males have, but one that most people don't see, feel, or think about until it becomes a problem.

Scientists have had limited success at identifying specific inherited genes associated with prostate cancer. Researchers studied prostate cancer patients with multiple cancer diagnoses, many who would not be recommended for...

A discovery by researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute shows that looking at whether a man’s uncles and great-grandparents, among other second- and third-degree relatives, had prostate cancer could be as...

For the first time in nearly 50 years, students from the University of Utahs School of Medicine, as well as the Colleges of Nursing, Pharmacy and Health, are starting school...

Jack H. Petajan, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurology and School of Medicine faculty member for 36 years, died Wednesday, June 22, after a courageous battle against biliary cancer and its...

Parents, siblings, and children of men with prostate cancer face a 20–30 percent greater risk of getting nine other types of cancer.