Nearly 3 years ago now, we first mentioned a surgical technique known as “Retzius-sparing” radical prostatectomy on this web site. … READ MORE …
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Eastham et al. have recently reported — in the Journal of Clinical Oncology — results from a randomized Phase III trial of the surgical treatment of men with high-risk forms of localized prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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The term “debulking” denotes the radical treatment (via prostatectomy or radiation therapy) of the cancerous prostate — lmost always in newly diagnosed patients — after distant metastases have been discovered. … READ MORE …
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A newly published report in The Lancet Oncology has pretty much finally confirmed what many of us have been assuming for a long time now: … READ MORE …
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Back in the early 1980s, Dr. Patrick Walsh at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore changed the nature of surgical treatment for prostate cancer when he first started to conduct so-called nerve-sparing radical prostatectomies. … READ MORE …
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Overweight and obese prostate cancer patients are often advised to lose weight prior to surgery for the treatment of localized forms of prostate cancer. But is this really, always, a good idea? … READ MORE …
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In an extraordinary editorial in the July issue of the Journal of Urology, Dr. Michael Koch of the University of Indiana School of Medicine makes the following statement: … READ MORE …
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A paper presented yesterday at the now-completed annual meeting of the American Urological Association has given us new data on the role of adjuvant chemotherapy alone in the treatment of men with high-risk prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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A new paper in the journal Clinical Genitourinary Cancer states that, “Salvage radical prostatectomy (SRP) is a treatment modality for patients with radio-recurrent prostate cancer but is currently underutilized.” The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink is significantly less than convinced of that premise. … READ MORE …
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According to a newly published article in Urologic Oncology, at least 85 percent of all radical prostatectomies in America are now performed using robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP). Actually, this is hardly a surprise. However, … READ MORE …
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A combined Russian and German research team has provided some interesting preliminary information on the use of neoadjuvant, low-dose docetaxel-based chemotherapy in treatment of intermediate- and high-risk patients prior to radical prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
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A newly published paper in BJU International has helped to make clear that many surgical patients have unrealistic expectations about their recovery of erectile and sexual function after radical prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
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A multi-institutional, international study has provided us with data on the 10-, 15-, and 20-year survival of a cohort of 600 relatively young, high-risk prostate cancer patients, all of whom were treated with first-line radical prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
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It would certainly be difficult (and arguably impossible) for us to provide a newly diagnosed prostate cancer patient with a comprehensive list of all the possible side effects and complications that might be associated with every type of first-line treatment for prostate cancer. However, … READ MORE …
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Data from just over 2,000 prostate cancer patients in the Victorian Prostate Cancer Registry (VPCR, from the State of Victoria, Australia) suggest some difference in outcomes between men receiving open and robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery for localized prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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