The impact of statin therapy on PSA levels
Saturday, November 8th, 2008 Posted in prostate related | No Comments »A scientific team has reported data from a longitudinal study of 1,214 men receiving statin treatment with drugs like simvastatin or atorvastatin (Lipitor) between 1990 and 2006. All patients were free of prostate cancer, had never had prostate surgery, had never ...
Meat, fish, and prostate cancer risk
Friday, November 7th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer risks | No Comments »A recent Canadian, prospective study evaluated the association between diet and risk for prostate cancer. All over 900 patients were scheduled to have a transrectal ultrasound-guided prostatic biopsy based on an elevated serum PSA level, a rising serum PSA level, ...
Post-operative surgical outcomes among African Americans
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »A recent study suggests that outcomes after surgical treatment of prostate cancer may not be as good for African Americans as they are for Caucasians, despite treatment by physicians and at hospitals with high prostate cancer surgery volumes. This paper suggests that ...
da Vinci Surgery LIVE on the Web!
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »Surgeons at St. Mary’s Hospital will perform a live minimally invasive robot-assisted prostatectomy surgery for treating prostate cancer using a da Vinci(R) Surgical System. The da Vinci(R) is the most innovative surgical option available to treat prostate cancer. Using the da ...
Docs Use Ice to Kill Cancer in Glasgow
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Posted in prostate cryotherapy | No Comments »Statistics show that each year dozens of men in Scotland who thought their prostate cancer had been cured find the disease has returned. In many cases there is no suitable alternative treatment left, with the risk of adverse effects outweighing ...
Link between personality and prostate cancer decision-making and satisfaction
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »A group of American investigators hypothesized that patients with greater optimism in CaP decision-making would be more satisfied and experience less difficulty with the process and that these effects would be partially mediated by their self-efficacy for making treatment decisions. In ...
What is the current status of second-line chemotherapy for castration-resistant prostate cancer?
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in prostate chemotherapy | No Comments »Patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) who show progression of disease after first-line chemotherapy with docetaxel have few proven treatment options. Mitoxantrone plus prednisone is frequently used in this setting. The retrospective analysis by Berthold et al. of mitoxantrone after ...
Androgen Deprivation Therapy for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer may be associated with numerous side effects
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is increasingly used for the treatment of prostate cancer (PCa), even in clinical settings in which there is no evidence-based proof of prolonged overall survival (OS). ADT, however, may be associated with numerous side effects, including ...
Radiation therapy for prostate cancer increases subsequent risk of bladder and rectal cancer
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 Posted in radiation therapy | No Comments »A retrospective analysis of SEER data concludes that men who receive radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer have an increased risk of bladder cancer compared to patients undergoing radical prostatectomy and compared to the general population. The risk of rectal cancer ...