One really has to wonder whether we are still treating elderly men, initially diagnosed with organ-confined prostate cancer, with first-line or “primary” androgen deprivation therapy ADT)! And if we are, why on Earth is that? … READ MORE …
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So a relatively new article in Reviews in Urology caught your Sitemaster’s eye this morning — and worried him because it seemed to be communicating a conclusion of questionable accuracy, which we will explore below. And if we have misinterpreted the data provide in the paper, we are more than willing to be corrected. … READ MORE …
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A group of Italian clinicians and researchers have reported that low-dose abiraterone acetate along with very low-dose prednisone appears to be both effective and safe in the treatment of elderly patients between 85 and 93 years of age with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). … READ MORE …
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In a newly published article in the American Journal of Clinical Oncology, Mishra et al. have attempted to assess the application of immediate, first-line treatment among older men with favorable-risk prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Now here’s a new perspective on the value of widespread prostate cancer screening from one of the founders of Prostate Cancer Awareness Week — Dr. David Crawford of the University of Colorado Health Science Center in Denver, CO (who is also the Chairman of the Prostate Conditions Education Council): … READ MORE …
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The value of regular testing of increasingly elderly men and women for risk of cancer is controversial. However, a new paper in the Archives of Internal Medicine has certainly added to our knowledge of just how widespread such testing may be … at least in the USA. … READ MORE …
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A population-based analysis of mortality data for men diagnosed with prostate cancer from three European nations suggests that “a small but important group of older patients” initially present with late stage prostate cancer and die rapidly as a consequence. … READ MORE …
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Data reported earlier this year from the PIVOT study and separately from the long-term Scandinavian study have shown that the surgical treatment of prostate cancer in the patients enrolled in these trials showed no median prostate-cancer specific or overall survival benefit compared to watchful waiting in patients of > 65 years of age. … READ MORE …
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Based on data collected in the Cryo On-Line Database (COLD), Dhar et al. have just published an analysis of data from a total of 860 men, all over 75 years of age, who were treated with whole-gland cryoablation for clinically localized prostate cancer at times dating back to at least 1995. … READ MORE …
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Two recent publications have offered evidence that, at 10 and 12 years of follow-up, the potential benefits of surgical treatment for low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer did not include any impact on overall survival for men of 65 years of age or more at the time of surgery. … READ MORE …
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Overall life expectancy of men in the US continues to rise. As a consequence, the way we treated localized prostate cancer in men of ≥ 70 years of age in 1990 will probably not be relevant or appropriate to the way we need to treat such men in 2020 (or perhaps even today). … READ MORE …
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A Prostate Cancer Task Force of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) has just issued new recommendations on the management of prostate cancer in “older men” (by which the task force means men of more than 70 years of age). … READ MORE …
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New data from a series of > 700 elderly patients with high-risk prostate cancer suggests that aggressive combination therapy for such men is associated with a reduced risk for prostate cancer-specific mortality. … READ MORE …
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