Posted on June 6, 2020 by Sitemaster
Last month, we looked at Level 1 evidence (highest level, superseding all previous studies) that for unfavorable-risk patients, brachy boost therapy (BBT) — i.e., external beam therapy (EBRT) with a brachytherapy boost to the prostate — has better results when accompanied by 18 months of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) (see this link). … READ MORE …
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Posted on April 30, 2020 by Sitemaster
At the end of last year, Dendreon announced that the Phase III ProVent trial of sipuelucel-T (Provenge) in the treatment of men with relatively lower-risk forms of prostate cancer (as compared to active surveillance) had been fully enrolled ahead of schedule. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: active, intermediate risk, low risk, Provenge, ProVent, sipuleucel-T, surveillance, trial | Leave a comment »
Posted on April 30, 2020 by Sitemaster
A new report from a relatively small, single-institution study has provided additional information about the utility of [18F]fluciclovine (Axumin) PET/CT scans in the detection of recurrent prostate cancer after definitive first-line treatment. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk | Tagged: Axumin, fluciclovine, PET/CT, recurrence, scan | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 23, 2020 by Sitemaster
For the past few years, some of us have been quietly concerned about the true value of MRI scans and the accuracy of PI-RADS scores in evaluation of a patient’s risk for the presence of clinically significant prostate cancer. This is a complex issue … but data from a large, recently completed study has now validated these concerns. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Risk | Tagged: MRI, PI-RADS, risk, scan, score | 25 Comments »
Posted on March 4, 2020 by Sitemaster
Jane Brody is an experienced journalist who writes regularly about issues related to health care in The New York Times. Your sitemaster regularly reads her columns because she does her homework with care and provides sound information for her readers. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk | Tagged: active, Brody, New York Times, screening, surveillance | 11 Comments »
Posted on February 5, 2020 by Sitemaster
As the Democratic Party discovered this week in Iowa, apps can have problems. However, there are also apps that prove to be very useful straight out of the gate — and they can be improved over time too. … READ MORE …
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Posted on November 20, 2019 by Sitemaster
There have long been suggestions that men already diagnosed with and receiving treatment for diabetes are at lower risk for a subsequent diagnosis of prostate cancer than non-diabetics. However, a very large, new, epidemiological analysis seems to suggest strongly that this may not be the case at all. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Prevention, Risk | Tagged: ant-diabetic, diabetes, medication, Prevention, risk | 3 Comments »
Posted on November 19, 2019 by Sitemaster
A newly published paper by Blayer et al. in in the journal Cancer has stated that,
Worldwide, the incidence of prostate cancer has increased in all groups between ages 15 and 40 years and increased globally at a steady rate averaging 2% per year since 1990.
… READ MORE …
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Posted on September 27, 2019 by Sitemaster
In posting the following commentary, we wish to be VERY clear that, at this time, there is no definitive evidence that there is a causal relationship between male infertility and risk for prostate cancer, but this does appear to be a POSSIBILITY. … READ MORE …
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Posted on September 20, 2019 by Sitemaster
Does radical prostatectomy (with or without external beam radiation therapy) improve prostate-cancer specific survival by comparison with primary radiation treatment and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) among patients initially diagnosed with locally advanced (T3) prostate cancer? … READ MORE …
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Posted on September 19, 2019 by Sitemaster
What celebs say and don’t say about prostate cancer (if they say anything at all) has often been difficult for the average patient to understand — as are some of their apparent treatment decisions (if those are actually mentioned). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: celebrity, spokeperson | 4 Comments »
Posted on September 19, 2019 by Sitemaster
In this week’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), there is an interesting article entitled, “Contingent knowledge and looping effects — a 66-year-old man with PSA-detected prostate cancer and regrets”. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: "looping", context, contingent, data, interpretation, knowledge | 7 Comments »
Posted on September 13, 2019 by Sitemaster
A newly published paper in the Journal of Urology has reported on the use of complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) among a cohort of nearly 8,000 American patients with a diagnosis of prostate cancer between 1996 and 2016. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: alternative, CAM, complementary, medicine | 8 Comments »
Posted on September 12, 2019 by Sitemaster
Prostate Cancer International (PCaI) has been able extend the hotel discount deadline to Monday, Oct 7th for its FREE patient conference in Virginia Beach on November 2. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: Choosing Wisely, conference, education, living well | 3 Comments »
Posted on September 6, 2019 by Sitemaster
Well, maybe, … at least among men living in in the Miyagi and Ohsaki prefectures, in Japan. … READ MORE …
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