Primary retroperitoneal schwannoma. Case presentation by Annia Rivacoba Betancourt, Yusnier Varona Varona, Javier Cruz Batista

“…The physical examination confirmed, through digital rectal examination, a tonic sphincter, an empty rectal ampulla, a grade IV enlarged prostate with a fibromuscular consistency with a smooth and mobile surface; not painful. …”
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Enhanced Interaction between Warfarin and High-Dose Ketoconazole: A Case Report by Cynthia A. Jackevicius, Mannhu N. Ton

“…A 59-year-old man treated with warfarin for aortic valve replacement was prescribed high-dose ketoconazole and hydrocortisone for the treatment of prostate cancer. Despite lowering the warfarin dosage by 35% during the start of high dose ketoconazole, an additional dose reduction was required subsequently when the INR rose from 2.62 to 3.82 within nine days. …”
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Sarcomatoid Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastasis to the Penis by Victor D. Liou, Oussama M. Darwish, Mary M. Henry, Ik C. Jun, Sameer A. Siddiqui

“…These cancers are most frequently a result of an aggressive or poorly managed primary prostate or bladder cancer and rarely a metastasis from a primary kidney tumor. …”
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Ochronotic arthropathy: skeletal manifestations and orthopaedic treatment by Khaled Hamed Salem, Alyaa Diaa Elmoghazy

“…Several clinical manifestations were described including coronary and valvular calcification, aortic stenosis, limited chest expansion, and renal, urethral and prostate calculi as well as ocular and cutaneous pigmentation. …”
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A Rare Cause of Testicular Metastasis: Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma by Alper Nesip Manav, Ercan Kazan, Mehmet Şirin Ertek, Akın Soner Amasyalı, Nil Çulhacı, Haluk Erol

“…Primary tumor sources are prostate, lung, and gastrointestinal tract for metastatic testicular cancers. …”
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Sample Size Calculation for Controlling False Discovery Proportion by Shulian Shang, Qianhe Zhou, Mengling Liu, Yongzhao Shao

“…We illustrate the method using estimated correlations from a prostate cancer dataset.…”
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Plasmacytoid Urothelial Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder Metastatic to the Duodenum: A Case Report—Diagnostic Relevance of GATA3 Immunohistochemistry by Hermann Brustmann

“…A transurethral bladder and a prostate resection specimen displayed infiltration of neoplastic cells in a spray-like discohesive pattern with occasional formation of small irregular nests and cord-like arrangements. …”
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On the Reaction of 2-Alkanoylnaphthohydroquinones with Hydroxylamine: Access to Cytotoxic 2-(Hydroxyamino)-1,4-naphthoquinone and Their 3-(Hydroxyimino)alkyl Analogous by Jaime A. Valderrama, Andrea Pérez-Herrera, Giulio G. Muccioli, Edmundo A. Venegas-Casanova, Rafael Jara-Aguilar, Pedro Buc Calderon, Julio Benites

“…Compound 19, 2-(hydroxyamino)-1,4-naphthoquinone, stands out by its anticancer potency against prostate cancer cells as shown by the lowest IC50 value (8.08 μM) and the best selectivity index (3.90).…”
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Microlaparoscopy in Sex Reassignment Surgery by S. De Stefani, C. Trombetta, M. Raber, G. Savaco, U. Moro, E. Belgrano

“…This step is generally carried out by means of blunt dissection between the rectal wall and the prostate, but most of the surgery is blindly performed without visual control. …”
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Histopathological changes in the testes, epididimis and accessory sex glands of pubertal brown swiss male bulls zeranol implanted by M. Kemal ÇİFTÇİ, Fazıl DELİGÖZOĞLU, Zuhal KAYA, Bünyamin TRAŞ

“…<p> Implantation of zeranal to the bulls induced histopathological changes on the reproductive tract, which included; reduction in the diameter of seminiferous tubules and delayed sperınatogenezis in the testes, inercaseel interductal conncctive tissue and muscular layer of the d. epididimis in the epididimites, augmented interalveoler connective tissue and reducecl alveoler development in the prostate, vesicular glands and bulbouretlrral glands.…”
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Lack of Detection of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus in HIV-1 Lymphoma Patients by Krista A. Delviks-Frankenberry, Chawaree Chaipan, Rachel Bagni, Kathleen Wyvill, Robert Yarchoan, Vinay K. Pathak

“…Xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) is a gammaretrovirus reported to be associated with human prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome. Since retroviruses cause various cancers, and XMRV replication might be facilitated by HIV-1 co-infection, we asked whether certain patients with HIV-associated lymphomas are infected with XMRV. …”
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Development of a Reference Method and Materials for Quantitative Measurement of UV-Induced DNA Damage in Mammalian Cells: Comparison of Comet Assay and Cell Viability by Donald H. Atha, Alessandro Tona, Vytas Reipa

“…Application of DNA damage diagnostic tests is rapidly growing, in particular for ovarian, prostate, and skin cancers; environmental monitoring; chronic and degenerative diseases; and male infertility. …”
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New Artificial Urinary Sphincter Devices in the Treatment of Male Iatrogenic Incontinence by Ioannis Vakalopoulos, Spyridon Kampantais, Leonidas Laskaridis, Vasileios Chachopoulos, Michail Koptsis, Chrysovalantis Toutziaris

“…Severe persistent stress incontinence following radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer treatment, although not very common, remains the most annoying complication affecting patient’s quality of life, despite good surgical oncological results. …”
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Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (Wegener’s Granulomatosis) Accompanied by Dysuria by Hisashi Takeuchi, Isao Kuroda, Issei Takizawa, Teiichiro Aoyagi, Masaaki Tachibana

“…Urinalysis showed pyuria. Prostatic tumor with lung metastasis was suspected from computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. …”
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Pathway Detection from Protein Interaction Networks and Gene Expression Data Using Color-Coding Methods and A* Search Algorithms by Cheng-Yu Yeh, Hsiang-Yuan Yeh, Carlos Roberto Arias, Von-Wun Soo

“…In the experiments, we tested our methods by applying to two datasets: yeast and human prostate cancer networks and gene expression data set. …”
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Obesity as a Major Risk Factor for Cancer by Giovanni De Pergola, Franco Silvestris

“…Reports from the International Agency for Research into Cancer and the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) have shown that the strongest evidence exists for an association of obesity with the following cancer types: endometrial, esophageal adenocarcinoma, colorectal, postmenopausal breast, prostate, and renal, whereas the less common malignancies are leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple myeloma, malignant melanoma, and thyroid tumours. …”
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Volatile Organic Metabolites as Potential Biomarkers for Genitourinary Cancers: Review of the Applications and Detection Methods by Kiana L. Holbrook, Wen-Yee Lee

“…This review outlines the current landscape of major genitourinary cancers (kidney, prostate, bladder, and testicular), including epidemiology, risk factors, and current diagnostic tools. …”
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Zinc Protoporphyrin Upregulates Heme Oxygenase-1 in PC-3 Cells via the Stress Response Pathway by Simon C. M. Kwok

“…The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of ZnPP on HO-1 expression in prostate cancer PC-3 cells. Incubation of PC-3 cells with 10 μM ZnPP for 4 h showed only a slight induction of HO-1 mRNA and protein, but the induction was high after 16 h and was maintained through 48 h of incubation. …”
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Clinicopathological analysis of sclerosing angiomatoid nodular transformation in the spleen by Shufei Wei, Yongliang Han, Yingyong Hou, Liangliang Wang

“…Results: Fourteen cases were complicated with benign tumors of the liver, pancreas, kidney, uterus, and prostate. One case was complicated with renal clear cell carcinoma, and one was complicated with hepatocellular carcinoma. …”
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Yield and horticultural performance of seed-oil pumpkin in south Florida by Geoffrey Meru, Yuqing Fu

“…Pumpkin seed is rich in oil (50% w/w), protein (35%), unsaturated fatty acids (86%) (Meru et al. 2018), and antioxidants that have many health benefits, including a reduced risk of certain cancers (Lelley et al. 2009; Nesaretnam et al. 2007; Stevenson et al. 2007), treatment of enlarged prostate, and  lowering cholesterol levels (Fruhwirth and Hermetter 2007; Thompson and Grundy 2005). …”
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