Posted on August 12, 2021 by Sitemaster
For many years your sitemaster has been advising patients that overly early use of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in many men with progressive prostate cancer is not necessarily the best decision (for a number of possible reasons). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: ADT, androgen, deprivation, initiation, metastasis., timing | 9 Comments »
Posted on December 3, 2020 by Sitemaster
If you are one of our readers who is really “into” the underlying causes of and development of prostate cancer, then you probably want to see if you can read a newly published article in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: epigenetics, evolution, genetrics, initiation, progression | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 7, 2016 by Sitemaster
Patients are often concerned about delaying initiation of treatment. Will it give the cancer a chance to metastasize? What if the random biopsy didn’t detect existing higher grade cancer? This is particularly of concern to patients considering active surveillance. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: delay, Diagnosis, initiation, outcome, radiation, risk, Treatment | 2 Comments »
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