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 …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: intermediate, outcome, radiation, risk, survival, therapy | 3 Comments »
A new paper has provided us with data on the ability of genomic testing to predict adverse pathology in a man undergoing a multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) and subsequent biopsy for risk of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Two retrospective studies were published in the last week, and they had some similar findings, but some dissimilar things to say about which treatment is best for high-risk prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: "high risk", BBT, brachy boost, EBRT, external beam, outcome, radiation, surgery | 5 Comments »
We have previously had no really accurate data on a very important question: Does local treatment of men initially diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer impact their long-term survival and mortality rates? … READ MORE …
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A newly published paper in the British Journal of Cancer has reported on patient-reported functional outcomes following robot-assisted laparoscopic (RALP), non-robot-assisted laparoscopic (LRP), and open (ORP) forms of radical prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
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A new article in the upcoming December issue of the Journal of Urology has shown that, for men with higher risk prostate cancers, tumors found in the transition zone of the prostate are less “risky” than the same types of cancer when they occur in the peripheral and central zones. … READ MORE …
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