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Over the years, we have been asked several times whether there is a role for any type of immediate treatment in men with a high level of concern for their risk of prostate cancer — despite a negative finding on prostate biopsy. … READ MORE …
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Another subject that has come up a lot recently is when to have salvage radiation. It is always a pressing decision for those 30 percent of prostatectomy patients who have detectable PSA after prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
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So the majority of the readers of The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink will be well aware that we have never had data from a large, randomized clinical trial comparing the outcomes of the commonest first-line forms of management of men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: first line, monitoring, outcome, ProtecT, radiation, surgery, trial | 9 Comments »
Salvage therapy is curative in about half of the men who have a biochemical failure after primary therapy for localized prostate cancer. That’s true whether the primary therapy was surgery or radiation. … READ MORE …
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Back in July we reported the initial publication on line of the results of a randomized Phase III trial by Yaxley et al. that compared the initial outcomes of open radical retropubic prostatectomy to robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP). This paper has now been published by The Lancet along with two sets of editorial commentary. … READ MORE …
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Confirming just how strange prostate cancer can actually be sometimes, here is a very unusual case history associated with antiandrogen withdrawal from a group of Japanese researchers. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: antiandtrogen, outcome, withdrawal | 4 Comments »
