A researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) College of Nursing is conducting a study to better understand supportive care needs and quality of life among individuals with ADVANCED forms of prostate cancer and is seeking just a few more participants to complete this survey. Can you help (if you haven’t already)? … READ MORE …
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A researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) College of Nursing is conducting a study to better understand supportive care needs and quality of life among individuals with ADVANCED forms of prostate cancer. If you live in the USA or its territories and are a patient with ADVANCED (i.e., recurrent, non-localized, or metastatic) prostate cancer, you are potentially eligible to participate. … READ MORE …
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Last August your sitemaster attended and reported from the third iteration of the Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC), held in Basel, Switzerland (see here, here, and here). … READ MORE …
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Our friends at UroToday are now making available the individual presenters’ slides and other materials from the 3rd Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC) that ended in Basel, Switzerland, last Saturday, as well as detailed interviews on specific topics that were recorded at the meeting. … READ MORE …
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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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With the third Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC) due to start here in Basel, Switzerland, this morning, there is an important new set of data that will help to inform some of the discussions. … READ MORE …
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New research data on the epidemiology of advanced prostate cancer here in the US has confirmed something that has long been understood (albeit not previously as well documented). … READ MORE …
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The first iteration of the Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC) was held in St. Gallen, Switzerland, in 2017, and the second iteration is upcoming in late August this year — this time in Basel. … READ MORE …
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A new study just published in European Urology appears to have confirmed a connection between regular, vigorous exercise (in men of 45 to 75 years of age) and a reduced risk for aggressive (i.e., advanced and lethal) forms of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Yet another study, just published in the Journal of Urology, has indicated a clear association between the use of metformin along with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in the treatment of advanced forms of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Nearly 30 years ago, when your sitemaster first attended a prostate cancer meeting (in 1989) related to the upcoming approval of a new drug called flutamide, he doesn’t remember there being a single clinician at the meeting who was female — out of the 150 or so urologists and medical oncologists who had been invited. … READ MORE …
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