A new paper just published in PLOS Medicine describes the development of a new online tool called PREDICT Prostate. … READ MORE …
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PREDICT Prostate: a new, sophisticated, prostate cancer prognostic tool
Posted on March 13, 2019 by Sitemaster
Modern prostate cancer imaging: application of the right scan at the right time
Posted on February 27, 2019 by Sitemaster
A new “opinion” article in the Journal of Clinical Oncology this week has addressed the complex issue of how best to think about (a) how we are regulating use of and (b) how we are applying new forms of imaging technique in the management of prostate cancer … READ MORE …
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Can MRI data improve older, pre-treatment, prognostic methods?
Posted on January 4, 2019 by Sitemaster
An obvious but previously unanswered question has been whether adding data from the results of MRI scans to the data used in the Partin tables and in the pre-surgical Kattan nomogram (also known as the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center or MSKCC nomogram) can improve the accuracy of these two commonly used prognostic methods. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: Kattan, MRI. mpMRI, MSKCC, multiparametric, nomogram, Partin, prognosis, risk, score | 3 Comments »
Computer modeling, genomics, and prostate cancer prognosis
Posted on December 15, 2018 by Sitemaster
A newly published paper on the development of prostate cancer in patients of ≤ 55 years of age claims to have shown that
Using a newly-developed computer model, it is now possible to predict the course of the disease in individual patients. … READ MORE …
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Gallium-68 PSMA PET scanning “is a game changer” in prostate cancer
Posted on October 17, 2018 by Sitemaster
The “game changer” statement above comes from an independent review of the potential value of gallium-86-labeled prostate-specific molecular antigen (68Ga PSMA) PET scanning in the evaluation of selected men with prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Are genomic tests for prognostic risk at diagnosis really helpful (yet)?
Posted on April 18, 2018 by Sitemaster
One of the critical and unanswered questions about the value of genomic/genetic testing in relation to the diagnosis and prognosis of prostate cancer is, “What are the currently available tests actually telling us compared to the clinical data?” … READ MORE …
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