Knowing whether you carry inherited cancer risk genes can help you to make the best decisions for your treatment and for your family. … READ MORE …
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According to a newly published paper in European Urology, a simple, hour-long lecture and training session can improve the ability of physicians to counsel patients systematically about active sureveillance and, at one major center, improved patient acceptance of active surveillance by as much as 17 percent. … READ MORE …
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A small, recent pilot study in Geneva, Switzerland, has shown that radiation therapy (RT) + androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) can be given safely to frail patients with non-metastatic, locally advanced or aggressive, intermediate prostate cancer, if and when a multidisciplinary care program is implemented to help such frail patients to limit risk for and manage predictable side effects. … READ MORE …
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We know that a family history of prostate cancer and the presence of certain genetic/genomic markers are associated with increased risk for prostate cancer in general and for some types of clinically significant prostate cancer in particular. … READ MORE …
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According to the abstract of a newly published paper by Krouwel et al. in Urology (“the Gold Journal”), we now have formal evidence that most urology residents in at least The Netherlands feel that they receive insufficient training in the management of men with erectile dysfunction. … READ MORE …
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Smart physicians have always been extremely conscious that how they present information can have a profound impact on exactly how patients will react to that information. … READ MORE …
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The authors of a newly published paper on stress management and coping skills among men on active surveillance as a first-line management strategy for prostate cancer begin the abstract of their paper with the following sentence: … READ MORE …
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It is well understood that some (perhaps even many) men diagnosed with low-risk disease have difficulty accepting active monitoring of any type as an effective and safe management strategy for deferring immediate, unnecessary treatment — and perhaps being able to avoid treatment at all. … READ MORE …
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Clinical guidelines from such organizations as the American Urological Association (AUA) and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) call for measures designed to improve quality of care and facilitate better treatment decisions for men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer. The degree to which this really happens, however, is not well understood. … READ MORE …
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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. … READ MORE …
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