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A newly published study appearing in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine appears to demonstrate that patients newly diagnosed with localized prostate cancer grossly underestimate their life expectancy without treatment and grossly overestimate the survival benefit of treatment.
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: expectation, localized, outcome, patient, prostate cancer, Treatment | 10 Comments »
It has long been unclear what the optimal radiation treatment was for men with pathologic T3-4N0 prostate cancer following radical prostatectomy (RP). Trabulsi et al. have recently conducted a multi-institutional analysis of the relative values of early adjuvant radiation therapy (ART) vs. delayed (salvage) radiation therapy (SRT) in such patients.
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We say that we need clinical trials, but only a small percentage of patients actually enroll in these trials. We’ve known this for a while, but it has just been confirmed. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows that the overall enrollement in cancer trials hovers in the very low single digits. Men [...]
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Anyone who has learned a reasonable amount about the diagnosis and management of prostate cancer has learned that the prostate specific antigen or PSA test is not a particularly good test for identifying or monitoring the status of men with active prostate cancer. It is simply better than anything else we have. Researchers have been [...]
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You can get information on the internet, but Dr. Krongrad suggests you also consider some books. There are different kinds of prostate cancer books. First we have the encyclopedia, useful because it puts in one place everything you might want to know. And you can take it on the plane and to bed, places you rarely take [...]
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