As our friend Howard Wolinsky continues his journalistic exploits into the world of prostate cancer, he has (almost inevitably) come across an issue of “conflicts of interest”, … READ MORE …
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Yesterday morning, a newly published paper was brought to my attention. It reports that use of the Prostate Health Index or phi test in a partially prospective study can and did change urologists’ opinions about whether selected patients really do or don’t need to have a prostate biopsy. … READ MORE …
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The Intergroupe Coopérateur Francophone de Recherche en Onco-urologie (ICFuro) has just published a review of the available evidence on the clinical validity and utility of six prognostic biomarkers available for the assessment of prostate cancer-related risk. … READ MORE …
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A new article in BJU International has suggested the possibility that Prostate Health Index density (i.e., a patient’s phi score divided by his prostate volume) may be able to predict the probability of a finding of clinically significant prostate cancer on biopsy. … READ MORE …
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It will come as no great surprise to regular readers that your Sitemaster has been less than enthusiastic to date about the potential of the Prostate Health Index or phi test as a tool for assessment of risk for prostate cancer. However, new data is starting to give him slightly greater hope regarding the value of this test. … READ MORE …
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued draft guidance stating that two approved tests for risk of prostate cancer are not clinically useful in England. … READ MORE …
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In more data reported at ASCO yesterday afternoon, we got the first real look at what appears to be a helpful study designed to evaluate whether the Beckman Coulter Prostate Health Index (or phi) test is really able to identify men who are good candidates for active surveillance. … READ MORE …
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We now have five approved tests that can (at least in theory) help a man — and his doctors — to decide whether he is at sufficient risk for clinically significant prostate cancer that he should go get a biopsy. But how good are they really? … READ MORE …
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According to a recent prospective study from a group of Italian investigators, the answer to that question is, “Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging” (mp-MRI). However, this needs to be confirmed in at least one other large, prospective study. … READ MORE …
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We’re a tad flummoxed by a media release from Northwestern Medicine in Chicago stating that it is “the first health care provider in the country to offer a new non-invasive blood test for prostate cancer that is nearly three times more accurate than the current standard prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test.” … READ MORE …
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At the annual meeting of the European Association for Urology (which ends today in Barcelona), there was a sponsored symposium entitled, “Prostate Health Index (phi) – A simple blood test significantly improves on PSA in the selection of men for biopsy and is a major advance in prostate cancer risk assessment.” … READ MORE …
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