The most widely used definition of biochemical failure after primary radiation therapy is the so-called “Phoenix” definition. It’s called that because it was adopted by consensus at a meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) in Phoenix, AZ, in 2005. … READ MORE …
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A newly published paper reports 5-year outcome data from a series of men initially diagnosed with very high-risk, but localized prostate cancer — all of whom were treated with either dose-escalated external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) or pelvic radiation + permanent interstitial seed implantation (combined modality radiotherapy or CMRT). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: "high risk", outcome, radiation therapy, very | 3 Comments »
A new report just published in Lancet Oncology provides data on complications other than incontinence and erectile dysfunction (ED) after surgical or radiotherapeutic treatment of prostate cancer within 5 years of the initial treatment. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: complications, hospitalization, radiation therapy, surgery | 16 Comments »
So the American Urology Association (AUA) is clearly “on a roll” when it comes to guidance on the detection and management of prostate cancer. This is the third new guidance document issued in a matter of days. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment, Uncategorized | Tagged: adjuvant, guideline, radiation therapy, radical prostatectomy, salvage | 4 Comments »
The art of good timing and good patient selection is important to the appropriate use of salvage hormone therapy in all men who are in biochemical failure after first- or second-line radiation therapy. A study published in “the Red Journal” helps to make this point. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: ADT, androgen deprivation, radiation therapy, salvage, survival | 11 Comments »
According to an article in the Boston Globe this morning, we are (supposedly and finally) going to get the study needed to try to demonstrate whether there is a real clinical benefit to proton beam radiation therapy as compared to modern, intensity-modulated radiation therapy in men with localized prostate cancer! … READ MORE …
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Ye of faith … and ye of rather less faith … in the merits of proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) compared to other forms of treatment for management of localized prostate cancer may want to read through Robert Langreth’s article (“Prostate cancer therapy too good to be true explodes health cost“) posted this morning on the Bloomberg.com web site. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: cost, PBRT, proton beam, radiation therapy, value | 13 Comments »
