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According to another publication based on data from the Physicians’ Health Study, “Quality of life outcomes in men who underwent delayed treatment after initially waiting were not worse than in men who underwent immediate treatment.”
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: immediate treatment, outcome, Physicians' Health Study, quality of life, watchful waiting | 7 Comments »
A new study in the Journal of Urology reports data on a cohort of 125 patients enrolled in the Physicians’ Health Study (PHS) who elected to be managed with watchful waiting for a minimum of 1 year after their initial diagnosis and who were followed for an average (mean) of 7.3 years.
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: active surveillance, long-term, outcome, quality of life, watchful waiting | 8 Comments »
It will likely be evident to most well-informed prostate cancer patients, support group leaders, and advocates that a man with low-risk, early stage prostate cancer (“favorable histology”) is potentially a good candidate for prostate cancer surgery.
Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Treatment | Tagged: active surveillance, continence, outcome, quality of life, RALP, robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy, sexual function | Leave a Comment »
Men with locally recurrent prostate cancer after first-line external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) have historically had three options for second-line treatment: salvage radical prostatectomy, salvage cryoablation, and salvage brachytherapy.
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: EBRT, external beam radiation therapy, HIFU, high-intensity focused ultrasound, QOL, quality of life, salvage | Leave a Comment »
In 1989 the Scandinavian Prostate Cancer Group Study Number 4 (SPCG-4) started randomizing men with a clinically initiated diagnosis of localized prostate cancer to either watchful waiting or open radical prostatectomy as their primary treatment. A new paper has now addressed the long-term quality of life (QoL) of men in this study.
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: adverse effects, outcome, quality of life, radical prostatectomy, Scandinavian, SPCG-4, trial, watchful waiting | Leave a Comment »
Most readers of this blog will never have heard of “dignity therapy.” It isn’t even listed on Wikipedia — although perhaps it will be shortly.
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: dignity, psychotherapy, quality of life, terminal, therapy, well-being | Leave a Comment »
Here in the USA, while our legally elected representatives in Washington, DC, pontificate about “death panels” and try to score political points over which of our two major political parties is more likely to “ration Grandpa to death,” most of us do, in fact, appreciate that we are going to die (at some point) and [...]
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: death, palliative care, quality of life | 7 Comments »
Prostate cancer patients in general, but most especially men receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), experience symptoms and side effects of treatment that make it difficult to maintain their independence and quality of life. A recent review states that exercise may offset many of the side effects of ADT as well as those of the cancer [...]
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: exercise, outcome, quality of life, side effects, Treatment | 2 Comments »
So the highlight of the meeting today has been a series of lectures given at the meeting of the Society for Urologic Oncology that were (to a large extent) focused on issues related to health outcomes and prostate cancer.
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There is significant use of a variety of forms of complementary and alternative forms of medicine (CAM) among patients with localized prostate cancer. A new study in the Journal of Community Health has explored the prevalence and predictors of such behavior in a rural community setting.
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: alternative, choice, complementary, quality of life | 1 Comment »
There is an interesting new report in the Journal of Urology that addresses perceptions of and actual quality of life of a cohort of German patients for up to 12 months after they were treated with radical prostatectomy for clinically localized prostate cancer.
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: counseling, outcome, quality of life, surgery | 4 Comments »
It will come as little surprise to regular readers of this blog that androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is associated with effects on health-related quality of life. However, few studies have attempted to assess the impact of ADT on true “physical well-being.”
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: ADT, androgen deprivation, physical well-being, quality of life | 3 Comments »
In a poster today at the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, data was presented on 4-year follow-up of quality of life (QOL) among men treated with conformal proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT).
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: outcomes, PBRT, proton beam radiation therapy, QOL, quality of life | 6 Comments »
The Surgical Prostatectomy versus Interstitial Radiation Intervention Trial or SPIRIT was a Phase III, partially randomized clinical trial, conducted in the U.S.A. and Canada, and designed to compare radical prostatectomy (RP) and brachytherapy (BT) as first-line treatments for men with localized prostate cancer.
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: brachytherapy, HRQOL, localized, outcome, quality of life, radical prostatectomy, SPIRIT | Leave a Comment »
It has long been recognized that the combination of prostate cancer and diabetes tends to have a notable impact on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of male patients.
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: diabetes, HRQOL, quality of life | Leave a Comment »
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