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A multi-center research team has used data from > 7,300 radical prostatectomy patients treated between 2000 and 2005 at two major medical centers to construct a new “2010 Partin nomogram” to improve prediction of pathologic outcomes after radical surgery.
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In today’s news reports we comment on articles dealing with: The declining rate of prostate cancer mortality in the USA Managing prostate cancer in the elderly Re-validation of the Partin tables RALP as salvage surgery for radiation-resistant patients
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment, Uncategorized | Tagged: elderly, mortality rates, Partin tables, RALP, salvage | 7 Comments »
Today’s reports cover such topics as: Innaccuracies in use of the Partin tables in two cohorts of European patients Additional evidence that “earlier is better” when radiotherapy is required following surgery Lack of information about the effects of ADT on bone density (at least in Canada) Individual variation in serum testosterone levels among patinets receiving [...]
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: adjuvant, Partin tables, salvage radiotherapy, testosterone | 4 Comments »
We are now able to provide a link to the abstract of the paper on diet, telomeres, and prostate cancer by Ornish et al., which we first reported on last week. Additional news today addresses: The classification of patients considered to be appropriate for active surveillance The accuracy of the Partin tables as a predictive [...]
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