Posted on August 19, 2008 by Sitemaster
Recent publications reported on today include:
- Demonstration of the validity of the Epstein criteria in defining pathologically insignificant prostate cancer
- A review of the value of sildenafil (Viagra) and similar products in treatment of erectile dysfunction among prostate cancer patients
- A review of the significance of “gene fusion” and its relevance in prostate cancer … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: cancer, criteria, Epstein, fusion, gene, inhibitors, insignificant, news, PDE5, prostate, update | 4 Comments »
Posted on August 16, 2008 by Sitemaster
There is in fact a good deal of news this weekend. Information about four items are provided below and we will discuss additional news items tomorrow. Items in this article include:
- The relative views of Canadian urologists and radiation oncologists toward PSA screening and treatments for localized disease
- A complex form of investigational immunotherapy for localized prostate cancer
- Data suggesting the possibility of a survival benefit resulting from treatment of hormone refractory prostate cancer patients with docetaxel (Taxotere) + ASA404 (an investigational drug)
- A new review of psychosocial issues and their impact on management of prostate cancer … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: ASA404, Canada, cancer, immunotherapy, news, prostate, psychosocial issues, radio-oncologists, update, urologists, vaccine | Leave a comment »
Posted on August 15, 2008 by Sitemaster
In today’s prostate cancer news update we report on:
- Awareness of the PSA test in men with other recognized health risks
- A new urine test that may differentiate between prostate cancer and BPH
- Markers for the likelihood of effectiveness of androgen deprivation from an ongoing Finnish multicenter trial … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Prevention | Tagged: awareness, cancer, diagnostic, news, PHP94, prostate, PSA, risk, test, update | Leave a comment »
Posted on August 14, 2008 by Sitemaster
Today’s prostate cancer news update includes information related to the following areas:
- Long-term survival of patients with PSA levels ≥ 50 ng/mL who have been treated with radical prostatectomy
- The current role of bone imaging in the managment of prostate cancer
- The potential of targeted therapy for androgen-independent prostate cancer, based on expression of specific molecular markers … READ MORE …
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Posted on August 13, 2008 by Sitemaster
Bill-Axelson et al. have just published an update of the Scandinavian Prostate Cancer Research Group’s prospective, randomized trial of watchful waiting vs. radical prostatectomy. The most recent results are somewhat worrisome.
For a detailed update on this study, please read the article entitled “Watchful waiting vs. radical surgery: the Scandinavian trial” elsewhere on this site. However, the crucial information is that at 10.8 years of follow-up there appears to have been no increase in the overall or the disease-specific survival benefit compared to the data at 8.2 years of follow-up.
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: cancer, news, prostate, prostatectomy, radical, randomized, Scandinavian, trial, waiting, watchful | 3 Comments »
Posted on August 12, 2008 by Sitemaster
There are several interesting new papers reported today, and two very important ones (which have been addressed in separate posts). This post addresses:
- A retrospective analysis of the relative predictive value of positive surgical margins following radical prostatectomy in the pre- and post-PSA eras
- A new nursing model for management of urinary incontinence post-prostatectomy
- The importance of assessing risk for transitional zone prostate cancer in patients already diagnosed with bladder cancer, and
- A review of developing strategies for the treatment of late-stage prostate cancer
- Other reports today address adjuvant vs. salvage radiation therapy and quality of care in management of early stage prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Posted on August 11, 2008 by Sitemaster
In a fascinating study by scientists from The Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton and the University of California, Yeang et al. are reporting that a molecular, Darwinian, “survival of the fittest” scenario appears to play out as gene mutations seek to survive through cancerous tumors. … READ MORE …
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Posted on August 9, 2008 by Sitemaster
Today’s prostate cancer news contains important information for Vietnam veterans from a study carried out on the incidence of prostate cancer among veterans cared for through the Northern California VA Health System. It is also of considerable significance regarding prostate cancer risk among the Vietnamese people. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: Agent Orange, cancer, deficiency, news, prostate, risk, supplementation, testosterone, update, veterans, Vietnam | Leave a comment »
Posted on August 8, 2008 by Sitemaster
Today’s news items all focus on issues that are closely connected to the recent and controversial guidelines issued by the US Preventive Services Task Force:
- The accuracy of current methods for predicting the likelihood of clinically insignificant (indolent) prostate cancer
- The management of patients found to have incidental prostate cancer on treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and
- The risks of overtreatment of men in their 70s and 80s after a diagnosis of prostate cancer … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: BPH, cancer, elderly, indolent, insignificant, Kattan, life expectancy, mortality, news, nomogram, patients, prediction, prostate, prostatectomy, radical, survival, update | Leave a comment »
Posted on August 7, 2008 by Sitemaster
Health Discovery Corporation (HDC) has announced the successful completion of a double-blind, Phase III trial of its new gene-based molecular diagnostic test for prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Posted on August 7, 2008 by Sitemaster
There is an interesting report in Urology on the relationship between indicators of sexual and somatic development and risk for prostate cancer. We would observe, however, that this is a relatively small, retrospective study and is highly dependent on self-reported patient data. … READ MORE …
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Posted on August 5, 2008 by Sitemaster
So after a few days becalmed in a world of minimal prostate cancer news … we have a fine controversy to revisit and some other interesting titbits to gnaw on … … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Treatment | Tagged: cancer, castration, hormone, LUTS, metastasis, news, nomogram, outcomes, prostate, prostatectomy, radical, refractory, resistant, screening, survival, update | Leave a comment »
Posted on August 2, 2008 by Sitemaster
The summer doldrums seem to be upon us. There was no prostate cancer news of interest yesterday (as you may have noticed), and only one new piece of news as of 8 a.m. EST today. Even this isn’t prostate cancer-specific … but it is likely highly relevant to prostate cancer patients too. … MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: cancer, news, palliative care, prostate, update | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 31, 2008 by Sitemaster
News items today are focused on information about:
- a new way of approaching treatment of hormone-refractory disease
- the initial clinical trials of a new drug candidate in hormone-refractory patients
- the association between hospital and surgeon volume and patient outcomes after radical prostatectomy. … MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Management, Treatment | Tagged: Apoptone, cancer, HE3235, hormone refractory, hospital, news, prostate, prostatectomy, radical, update, volume | Leave a comment »
Posted on July 29, 2008 by Sitemaster
Here is Part B of your daily prostate cancer news update. Unless someone announces a cure for prostate cancer we will probably hold any further news until tomorrow! … MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Drugs in development, Management, Treatment | Tagged: AIPC, androgen-independent, cancer, cut-point, hormone refractory, HRPC, laparoscopic, margin, news, open, positive, prostate, prostatectomy, PSA, PSM, radical, somastatin, surgical, update | 1 Comment »
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