Data from a recently published, Canadian, clinical trial of high-dose vitamin D as a method to strengthen bones in healthy adults who do not have osteoporesis have had significant and unexpectedly negative results. … READ MORE …
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Andrew Vickers, PhD, who works at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, is not a physician. He is a statistician and a research methodologist. And he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board to The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink. … READ MORE …
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A newly published article — and an associated editorial — in the Annals of Internal Medicine has addressed the possible benefits of taking low-dose aspirin as a method to prevent the progression of newly diagnosed prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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For many years researchers have been trying to identify so-called “surrogate” endpoints that can be used to predict overall and prostate cancer-specific survival with high accuracy. … READ MORE …
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It will hardly come as a surprise to most prostate cancer support group leaders and other prostate cancer advocates that there is a strong association between patient age and risk for side effects of radical prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
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Last week we noted that adding MRI data to the Partin tables and to the Kattan/MSKCC nomograms did not seem to improve the accuracy of prognosis of outcomes after radical prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
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Pfizer and Astellas have, this morning, announced that the addition of enzalutamide to standard androgen deprivation (ADT) has led to improved outcomes in men with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC). … READ MORE …
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We finally have some published data — albeit not a lot — on the use of one of the PD-1 inhibitors (pembrolizumab, also known as Keytruda) in the treatment of late-stage prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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A report on the UroToday web site has addressed a presentation given this week at the ESMO 2018 Congress in Munich, Germany, that is relevant to the potential value of taking a statin while you are being treated for very late stage prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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The following was brought to our attention by Arthur as a consequence of a question posed on Ask Arthur by a reader within the past 24 hours. … READ MORE …
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Back in January this year we commented on a technique known as Retzius-sparing radical prostatectomy, which — according to its advocates — is said to facilitate recovery of erectile function post-surgery. … READ MORE …
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