An interesting article published a couple of week’s ago in the Medical Journal of Australia reports on “real world issues” related to the implementation of active surveillance (AS) in Oz. … READ MORE …
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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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The Göteborg group in Sweden have just published long-term follow-up data on the management of > 450 men identified with very low-, low-, and intermediate-risk prostate cancer as a consequence of the Gotebörg screening trial and managed on something they call “active surveillance” … READ MORE …
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A new article from the group at Johns Hopkins has now confirmed that rates of prostate cancer-specific mortality and progression to metastatic disease are extremely low at 15 years of follow-up in their 18-year-long active surveillance cohort. … READ MORE …
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At a 4-hour meeting yesterday afternoon here in New Orleans there was intense discussion of issues related to the future of focal therapy and (potentially) to the approval of new types of device and technologies that might be able to deliver focal therapy. … READ MORE …
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The fact of the matter is that, as yet, we don’t have a good answer for this question, and it may be many years before we do. The reasons for this are numerous, but we are beginning to get some of the information we need to clarify the situation. … READ MORE …
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Recent research data raise questions as to whether clinical trial protocols — and their results — are being skewed (notably for men with so-called “intermediate-risk” disease) by current definitions of risk category. … READ MORE …
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