Posted on July 31, 2012 by Sitemaster
A paper just published in European Urology addresses pathologic outcomes among men initially managed with active surveillance and subsequently treated by deferred radical prostatectomy (RP). The paper stimulated an important set of editorial comments by Albertsen, which we strongly recommend to readers (along with the response from the authors of the original paper). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: active surveillance, deferred, outcome, pathology, radical prostatectomy, RP, screening | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 30, 2012 by Sitemaster
A paper published in June this year in the Journal of Sexual Medicine suggests that delaying radical prostatectomy (RP) as a first-line treatment for localized prostate cancer has no significant effects on post-surgical pathology or mortality but may lead to higher risk for incontinence and erectile dysfunction. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: delay, outcome, quality, radical prostatectomy, RP, side effects, surgery | Leave a comment »
Posted on November 29, 2010 by Sitemaster
A newly reported Swiss study provides us with what appear to be some sound comparative data on the relative merits of open radical prostatectomy (RP) and robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RALP) at a center with a relatively low-volume caseload. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: caseload, open, outcome, radical prostatectomy, RALP, robot-assisted, RP | 5 Comments »
Posted on October 13, 2010 by Sitemaster
Relatively few data have been published on the pathological outcomes of patients initially diagnosed with atypical small acinar proliferation (ASAP), i.e., atypical glands suspicious but not diagnostic for prostate cancer, who are diagnosed with prostate cancer on re-biopsy and then treated by radical prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: ASAP, Diagnosis, pathology, radical prostatectomy, RP | Leave a comment »
Posted on April 5, 2010 by Sitemaster
Data to be published in the May 2010 issue of the Journal of Urology are going to make a lot of urologists rather less than happy about the implications for the use of radical prostatectomy as first-line treatment for prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: brachytherapy, comparison, cryotherapy, HRQOL, outcome, quality of life, radical prostatectomy, RALP, RP | Leave a comment »
Posted on February 10, 2010 by Sitemaster
For many years, the urology group at the Mayo Clinic has argued that surgery is a viable form of treatment for at least some patients with TxN+M0 prostate cancer. A retrospective analysis of data from the Munich Cancer Registry in Germany now seems to confirm this argument. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Management, Treatment | Tagged: lymph nodes, positive, radical prostatectomy, RP, survival | Leave a comment »
Posted on February 9, 2010 by Sitemaster
There are few good data on the occurrence of chronic fatigue after first-line treatment of localized prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: chronic, EBRT, external beam radiation therapy, fatigue, radical prostatctomy, RP, Treatment | Leave a comment »
Posted on February 8, 2010 by Sitemaster
We have commented previously on the increasing number of papers that appear to be looking with greater clarity at issues related to the adverse consequences of prostate cancer therapy. A new paper on the impact of “sexual bother” (for which you can read “physical or psychological distress related to sexual intercourse”) appears to be another paper in this “series.” … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: erectile dysfunction, radical prostatectomy, RP, sexual bother | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 17, 2010 by Sitemaster
In today’s news reports we address recent publications on:
- The GEMCaP biomarkers and prediction of prostate cancer recurrence post-surgery
- Biopsy Gleason score under-staging and active surveillance
- The value of exercise during radiotherapy
- Impact of type of surgery on post-surgical continence at 1 year … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: active surveillance, biomarkers, continence, exercise, GEMCaP, radical prostatectomy, radiotherapy, RP, under-staging | 3 Comments »
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