Comparative effectiveness of prostate cancer surgical treatments
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A recent study at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, compared laparoscopic prostatectomy with or without robotic assistance vs open radical prostatectomy in terms of postoperative outcomes and subsequent cancer directed therapy. Researchers investigated men 66 years old or older with ...
Prostate cancer-specific survival 30 years after radical prostatectomy
Monday, March 8th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A recent report at Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA, performed an evaluation on 30-year cancer control and survival outcomes after radical prostatectomy in a single center series of patients treated during a 43-year period. The authors conclude that, in this ...
Biochemical recurrence after prostatectomy and risk of mortality
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A scientific report at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, has recently evaluated whether biochemical recurrence as a time-dependent covariate (t) after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer was associated with the risk of death and whether salvage therapy with radiotherapy and/or hormonal ...
Metastasis after radical prostatectomy or external beam radiotherapy for
Monday, March 1st, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »A study at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, assessed the effect of radical prostatectomy and external beam radiotherapy on distant metastases rates in patients with localized prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy or external beam radiotherapy at a single ...
Surgeon skills more important than type of surgery
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A recent analysis of the outcomes of different types of radical prostatectomy appears to reveal no difference between the patients’ clinical outcomes following laparoscopic (including non-robot-assisted and robot-assisted) categories of surgery (LRP/RALP) and traditional “open” radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) when ...
Comparison study of open and laparoscopic surgery found few differences in outcome
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A new study at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City compared open radical prostatectomy (ORP) and laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP), outcames in nearly 6,000 men, age 66 or older, with localized prostate cancer. Currently, open radical prostatectomy (ORP) is ...
A positive surgical margin predicts the recurrence of prostate cancer
Saturday, February 6th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A research team has recently published data based on a series of 11,729 patients who underwent open radical retropublic prostatectomy at the Mayor Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, between 1990 and 2006. Researchers goal was to better establish the impact of ...
Race, weight may influence success of prostate surgery
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy | No Comments »A new study at the Duke Prostate Center at Duke University reveals that race and obesity may affect the outcome of men with diabetes who have prostate cancer surgery. The sudy finds among diabetic men undergoing prostatectomy, obese whites have worse ...
Is radical prostatectomy the standard for localized prostate cancer?
Friday, January 15th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomy, radiation therapy | No Comments »A new study at University of Florida aims to review the pertinent literature and compare the outcomes after radical prostatectomy (RP) and radiotherapy (RT). Experts agree tha the probability of cure is similar after either RP or RT, but the likelihood ...
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 ...