Posted on September 18, 2019 by Sitemaster
Yesterday (September 17, 2019), the US Food and Drug Administration approved apalutamide (Erleada) for treatment of men with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC) … READ MORE …
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Posted on September 17, 2019 by Sitemaster
Stereotactic ablative body radiation (SABR, or sometimes, SBRT) significantly slowed metastatic progression in men with three or fewer metastases (oligometastatic disease). … READ MORE …
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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 …
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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 …
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Posted on September 2, 2019 by Sitemaster
Data from a recently published, Canadian, clinical trial of high-dose vitamin D as a method to strengthen bones in healthy adults who do not have osteoporesis have had significant and unexpectedly negative results. … READ MORE …
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Posted on August 31, 2019 by Sitemaster
So today, the third day of the meeting, was “voting day” on a total of 123 questions carefully crafted by the organizers prior to the meeting. The questions had all gone through three cycles of review and revision prior to the meeting. … READ MORE …
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Posted on August 31, 2019 by Sitemaster
The second day of the APCCC here in Basel ran for 10 hours and encompassed a total of six sessions, as follows: … READ MORE …
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