Contemporary rates of overall and prostate cancer-specific mortality in Norway

A newly published study in the journal Urology (“the Gold journal”) has reported data on risk of death from prostate cancer and other causes among > 3,000 contemporary patients diagnosed with non-metastatic prostate cancer in 2004-2005. … READ MORE …

More on statins and the management of prostate cancer

A recent data analysis for the Danish national health registry systems has once again provided confirmation of a link between statin use and risk of prostate cancer-specific mortality. … READ MORE …

Physical activity and prostate cancer-specific survival times

Yet another study has confirmed the benefits of regular exercise in the prevention or delay of prostate cancer-specific mortality among men with non-metastatic prostate cancer. … READ MORE …

US prostate cancer incidence, screening rates down by about 16 percent in 2012

Two papers just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association provide the best documentation yet of a significant decline in PSA testing for risk of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …

Yes, you can now check your prostate cancer surgeon’s complication rates, but …

… You are going to need to be cautious in using this new tool, as explained below. … READ MORE …

Are prostate cancer-specific mortality rates in Australia higher than they should be?

An article just published in the World Journal of Urology has suggested that rates of prostate cancer-specific mortality in Australia seem to have been unexpectedly higher than in the USA. … READ MORE …

Prostate cancer mortality rates in the UK drop by 21 percent

According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, Cancer Research UK is claiming that deaths from prostate cancer in the UK have drop by 20.8 percent during the 19-year period from 1991-93 to 2010-12. … READ MORE …

Risk for 120-day prostate biopsy-specific mortality — redux

Once upon a time (not so very long ago) Boniol et al. suggested that the 120-day mortality rate associated with biopsies for risk of prostate cancer might be as high as 1.3 percent. This caused something of a furore. … READ MORE …

More on age and urinary continence post-radical prostatectomy

We commented on Friday last week on a paper by Wallerstedt et al. addressing factors affecting risk for urinary continence after radical prostatectomy. One reader had asked us whether we could provide more details about the age breakdown and the rates of urinary incontinence in the patients studied by the Swedish research team. … READ MORE …

Incidence and mortality rates for prostate cancer declined again in 2008

The latest actual (as opposed to projected) data on the incidence and mortality rates for prostate cancer specifically (and cancers as a whole) continue to show steady improvements here in the US. … READ MORE …

Variation in prostate cancer mortality rates in England

According to a report in the Daily Telegraph this morning, there is significant variation is prostate cancer mortality rates across England. … READ MORE …