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 …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: advanced, APCCC, bone, castration-resistant, castration-sensitive, future, metastatic, side effects | Leave a comment »
Posted on August 2, 2019 by Sitemaster
In 2011, the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued a consensus statement as part of its “Choosing Wisely” campaign that found that 30 Gy in 10 fractions (treatments), 20 Gy in 5 fractions, and 8 Gy in 1 fraction all gave equivalent pain relief. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: bone, pain, radiotherapy, relief | 7 Comments »
Posted on June 16, 2017 by Sitemaster
Here in the USA, about half the patients diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer are still (apparently) being sent for “guideline-discordant” (i.e., unnecessary) bone scans and CT scans, … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Risk | Tagged: appropriate, bone, CT, inappropriate, scan, why | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 26, 2016 by Sitemaster
A new review article suggests the possibility that radiolabeled prostate specific membrane antigens (PSMAs) and PET scans may, at some point in the not too distant future, replace bone and CT scans in diagnosis and monitoring of men with advanced forms of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: bone, CT, gallium-68, PET, PSMA, scan | 4 Comments »
Posted on February 17, 2016 by Sitemaster
An interesting new paper in BJU International has provided us with a somewhat different perspective on which patients with prostate cancer do and do not need preventive therapy (e.g., zoledronic acid/Zometa, dasatinib/Xgeva) to minimize risk for bone fractures. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: ADT, androgen, bone, deprivation, fracture, risk | 3 Comments »
Posted on October 23, 2015 by Sitemaster
A newly published paper in the journal Cancer seems to be implying that every man with castration-resistant prostate cancer who progresses from non-metastatic to metastatic status (based on a bone scan or other indicators) should also be given a CT scan because of risk for soft tissue metastasis. … READ MORE … >
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: bone, castration-resistant, CRPC, CT, metastasis, scan | 8 Comments »
Posted on October 2, 2015 by Sitemaster
A new report in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine has suggested that it may be time to start looking seriously at whether the combined [18F]NaF/[18F]FDG PET/CT scan may be significantly better than the traditional [99m]Tc bone scan in evaluation of risk for or the actual presence of metastasis in men with prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk | Tagged: bone, imaging, metastasis, MRI, PET/CT, scanning, whole body | 3 Comments »
