A presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) will provide data on outcomes of men initially managed on active surveillance at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York over the past 17 years. … READ MORE…
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In October last year we had expressed the hope that data from the Men’s Eating and Living (MEAL) study would be presented at a major medical meeting this year. … READ MORE …
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One paper to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUS) gives results from treatment with a 3-month dose of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for men with low-risk prostate cancer compared to standard active surveillance. … READ MORE …
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According to a recent media release, a company called Endocyte has reached agreement with the US Food and Drug Administration about the design of a pivotal Phase III clinical trial that will test the effectiveness and safety of 177Lu-PSMA-617 in men with recurrent, metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). … READ MORE …
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About 25 years ago the addition of the combination of mitoxantrone + prednisone to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) was the first form of chemotherapy ever approved for the treatment of metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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A new article in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine has just reported the full results of the so-called PRECISION trial of MRI-targeted vs. standard biopsy techniques in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Last week, we saw that escalated dose did not improve 10-year overall survival in high-risk men (see this link). The latest published findings of the randomized clinical trial (RTOG 0126) prove that 8-year overall survival was not improved in intermediate-risk men who received a higher radiation dose. … READ MORE …
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