Long-term data on active surveillance from MSKCC

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…

How doctors interpret published data from clinical trials of new drugs

Although it has nothing to do with prostate cancer in particular, there is an interesting article in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that assesses how physicians interpret the published results of clinical trials of new drugs — based on the quality of the trials (their “rigor”) and who put up the money to carry the trial out (“funding”). … READ MORE …