NCCN updates prostate cancer management guidance
Saturday, January 9th, 2010 Posted in watchful waiting | No Comments »The updated NCCN clinical guidelines now include an explicit recommendation for active surveillance (watchful waiting) and only active surveillance for many men diagnosed with prostate cancer. [ more about active surveillance and prostate cancer treatment ]
Discovery opens door to new treatments for prostate cancer
Saturday, January 9th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »Researchers at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research of the Jewish General Hospital and McGill University in Montreal have discovered a previously unsuspected link between two different genetic pathways which suppress the growth of cancer tumours. This breakthrough, they say, ...
Proliferation of minimally invasive surgery vs open radical prostatectomy
Thursday, January 7th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Over the past seven to eight years there has been noted a proliferation of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) techniques for the treatment of urologic malignancies. This evolution is no better demonstrated than the radical prostatectomy surgery</a for patients with prostate ...
European outcomes to radical prostatectomy in the PSA era
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A German research group working in Hamburg has reported the first long-term survival data in response to radical prostatectomy (RP) from a European country since the beginning of the PSA era. Their data is from a single-institution series of 436 patients ...
Experimental lung cancer drug promising against prostate cancer
Monday, January 4th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer | No Comments »A research team at UT Southwestern Medical Center has found in two preclinical studies that an experimental drug currently being tested against breast and lung cancer shows promise in fighting prostate cancer. According to a senior co-author of both papers, the ...
Older patients appear to have an increased risk of prostate cancer recurrence
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risks, prostatectomy | No Comments »A scietific team at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, aimed evaluate the effects of age at radical prostatectomy (RP) on recurrence-free survival (RFS) in patients with prostate cancer stratified by established preoperative risk factors (such as ...
A holistic approach to androgen deprivation therapy
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 Posted in hormone therapy | No Comments »Urologists think that it is time to treating the cancer without hurting the patient. They know that androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for advanced prostate cancer can be linked with side effects which may negatively influence quality of life (QoL) and ...