It will hardly come as a surprise to most prostate cancer support group leaders and other prostate cancer advocates that there is a strong association between patient age and risk for side effects of radical prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
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It is well understood that there is an association between obesity and future risk for prostate cancer-specific mortality among cancer-free men. What has not been so clear is the relationship between obesity and long-term outcomes, post-treatment, among men diagnosed early with localized disease … READ MORE …
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It has long between understood that there is an association between a man’s serum levels of vitamin D and his risk for prostate cancer in general and clinically significant prostate cancer in particular. … READ MORE …
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A refreshingly honest article published this year in Translational Andrology and Urology, and reprinted in full on the Medscape web site, offers a somewhat depressing assessment of the state of the art of prevention of erectile dysfunction and/or rehabilitation of erectile function in men undergoing radical prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
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A newly published paper in the Scandinavian Journal of Urology comes to the potentially controversial conclusion that “the gain in life expectancy” after surgical treatment by radical prostatectomy “is minimal” for Danish men with prostate cancer compared to the life expectancy of Danish men in general. … READ MORE …
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According to a report on the Science Daily web site today, a presentation at the ongoing European Association of Urology (EAU) meeting in Madrid, Spain, suggests that the ability to regain normal erectile and sexual function after a radical prostatectomy is actually rather worse than one might have thought. … READ MORE …
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We wish we’d seen this earlier, but apparently in March 2014 an article in Urology gave us an outstanding overview of the wildly different prices that you (but perhaps not your insurance company) might be asked to pay for a radical prostatectomy at 100 hospitals across the USA. … READ MORE …
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This week’s New England Journal of Medicine contains data from a fifth update to the Scandinavian Prostate Cancer Group Study Number 4 (SPCG-4) trial of radical prostatectomy vs. watchful waiting in “early” prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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In what appears to be a fascinating study from a group of researchers at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore come data suggesting that patients who “changed urologists” had better short-term surgical outcomes after radical prostatectomy. So the question has to be, what did the research team mean by “changed urologists”? … READ MORE …
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The role of supplemental testosterone therapy in men previously treated for prostate cancer has long been a controversial issue, and the number of patients actually studied for the effects of such therapy (good and bad) is really quite small — at about 600 worldwide. … READ MORE …
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There is another rather entertaining, 10-minute video today on the Medscape Oncology web site showing a conversation between Dr. Matt Cooperberg of the University of California, San Francisco and Dr. Andrew Vickers of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. … READ MORE …
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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 …
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A paper to be presented at the upcoming AUA annual meeting from what appears to be an ex-US group of clinicians continues to demonstrate the fact that many men get surgical treatment for prostate cancer without anything like a full appreciation of the clinical problem, their treatment options, or the potential consequences. … READ MORE …
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A detailed review of treatment data from 1,200 patients treated by radical prostatectomy fails to offer any support for the development of a large, prospective trial of the clinical use of statins as adjunct therapy to prevent biochemical progression in men treated surgically for localized prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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A new paper just published in the Journal of Urology addresses (again) the controversial issue of whether the use of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) is appropriate as a management strategy after first-line treatment for hypogonadal patients. … READ MORE …
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