Older men with early-stage prostate cancer are not taking a risk if they keep an eye on the disease instead of treating it right away, suggests the largest study to look at this issue since PSA tests became popular. ...more

February 13, 2008

SEBRING – Whenever someone moves to another country, the adjustments of language, food, culture and customs are overwhelming. Dr. Kye Pahk arrived from Korea in 1967 and interned in Nashville, at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and then in Orlando. In 1973 a Sebring internist, Dr. Robert Rengarts, encouraged him to move here and open his practice in urology. Softening the uphill challenge of starting a new business was the fact that when Pahk came here he was the only urologist in Highlands County. His practice grew and within two years he was able to add a partner. ...more

January 28, 2008

Tampa's H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute and the University of Florida announced a partnership Wednesday that will benefit Moffitt's efforts to build the world's largest cancer tissue databank. ...more

January 23, 2008

Scientists have taken a key step toward revealing the causes of prostate cancer, finding that a combination of five gene variants dramatically raises the risk of the disease. Added to family history, they accounted for nearly half of all cases in a study of Swedish men. ...more

January 17, 2008

Frank Mendez was a family man, a man of his community. Spending his entire life in the West Tampa area, Mendez, 80, passed away Dec. 30 from complications relating to prostate cancer. ...more

January 16, 2008

Frank Mendez was a family man, a man of his community. Spending his entire life in the West Tampa area, Mendez, 80, passed away Dec. 30 from complications relating to prostate cancer. ...more

January 16, 2008

Frank Mendez was a family man, a man of his community. Spending his entire life in the West Tampa area, Mendez, 80, passed away Dec. 30 from complications relating to prostate cancer. ...more

January 16, 2008

Frank Mendez was a family man, a man of his community. Spending his entire life in the West Tampa area, Mendez, 80, passed away Dec. 30 from complications relating to prostate cancer. ...more

January 16, 2008

Frank Mendez was a family man, a man of his community. Spending his entire life in the West Tampa area, Mendez, 80, passed away Dec. 30 from complications relating to prostate cancer. ...more

January 16, 2008

Frank Mendez was a family man, a man of his community. Spending his entire life in the West Tampa area, Mendez, 80, passed away Dec. 30 from complications relating to prostate cancer. ...more

January 16, 2008