Criteria for selection of candidates for active surveillance in patients with low-risk prostate cancer
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »A recent study at Vita-Salute University San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. aimed to test the ability of two of the most stringent criteria used to identify patients with low-risk prostate cancer suitable for active surveillance (AS) to correctly exclude patients with ...
Experimental prostate cancer drugs tested in Belfast
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Around 10,000 men in the UK die from prostate cancer each year. This is one of the reason Belfast City Hospital joins other leading research hospitals around the world in using the experimental drugs designed to help men whose cancer ...
Concerns related to robotic prostate cancer surgery
Friday, October 16th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »A recent national study, which appeared in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, is raising some concerns about robotic prostate cancer surgery, a procedure widely used by local hospitals and promoted as having fewer complications than traditional prostate surgery. The ...
Low literacy levels associated to limited comprehension of prostate cancer terms
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »A recent study reviewed patient education materials and prostate-specific quality-of-life instruments to identify technical terms describing sexual, urinary, and bowel function. The team has reported on the very low level of understanding of prostate cancer-related terms among an underserved group of men ...
The regional vagaries of Medicare coverage (in the USA)
Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Although there are certainly unanswered questions about the effectiveness and safety of CyberKnife therapy in the long-term management of localized prostate cancer, it has one huge benefit over conventional radiotherapy for the patient who prefers the idea of external beam ...
Doctors Test Advanced Tool for Treating Prostate Cancer
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Unveiled recently at the 2008 American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting, the TargetScan Touch(TM) has been tested at several of the nation's leading medical centers, including Emory University School of Medicine. Leading radiation oncologists are using the ...
Prostate cancer prognosis worse in obese men
Monday, August 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Prostate cancer diagnosis tends to be delayed and surgical treatment more difficult in obese men than in lean men, according to two studies published Friday. The primary reason for the later diagnosis, and consequently poorer prognosis, seems to be that the ...