As we await the results of the VISION trial of Lu-177-PSMA-617, research continues into improving radiopharmaceuticals. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development | Tagged: Ac-225, actinium-225, PSMA, radiopharmaceuticals, safety, side effects, targeted, xerostomia | 3 Comments »
There is a large number of books for patients that deal with a diagnosis and management of prostate cancer. However, there is a relatively small number of books that are really valuable for a large number of men (and their partners) who have to deal with a diagnosis of prostate cancer. Very few books on prostate cancer ever make it into a second edition. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: ADT, living, side effects, Treatment | 2 Comments »
Three articles in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association throw a little more light on issues related to quality of life after diagnosis and treatment for localized prostate cancer … but quite how much light it is difficult to tell. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: decision-making, life, outcome, quality, side effects | 2 Comments »
When Jeff Demanes at the California Endocurietherapy Center, then in Oakland, CA, started doing high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) as a monotherapy (i.e., without any additional external beam therapy or hormone therapy), he arbitrarily chose a treatment schedule of 42 Gy delivered in six treatments or fractions. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: brachytherapy, efficacy, fractions, risk, side effects | 4 Comments »
According to a newly published article in BJU International, there was little to no major difference in the risks for hospitalization within 1 year after first-line treatment among relatively healthy, Medicare-eligible men with localized prostate cancer treated by either radical surgery or radiation therapy. … READ MORE …
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In a recent commentary, the Sitemaster mentioned some common adverse effects of radical prostatectomy, some of which (e.g., perceived penile shrinkage, climacturia) are seldom mentioned by urologists to prospective patients, and are not routinely included in standardized quality-of-life questionnaires. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: complications, intensity-modulated, primary, radiation, side effects | 8 Comments »
It would certainly be difficult (and arguably impossible) for us to provide a newly diagnosed prostate cancer patient with a comprehensive list of all the possible side effects and complications that might be associated with every type of first-line treatment for prostate cancer. However, … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: complications, prostatectomy, radical, side effects, surgery | 19 Comments »
Three randomized clinical trials (Sathya et al., 2005; Hoskin et al., 2012; and Guix et al., 2013) established the combination of external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) with a high dose rate brachytherapy (HDRBT) boost as a standard of care in the treatment of high-risk prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, Treatment, Uncategorized | Tagged: "high risk", brachytherapy, HDRBT, high-dose-rate, monotherapy, outcome, side effects | 10 Comments »
A newly published paper in BJU International has expanded our understanding of the cardiovascular risks associated with the use of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) — most particularly in older men treated with ADT as their first-line form of therapy. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: ADT, cardiac, cardiovascular, LHRH agonist, orchiectomy, risk, side effects | 3 Comments »
A new review article by a Danish research team in the Journal of Sexual Medicine has (arguably) brought a degree of clarity to what the authors refer to as “neglected” side effects consequent to radical prostatectomy. Unfortunately the average urologist probably doesn’t read the Journal of Sexual Medicine on a regular basis. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: incontinence, prostatectomy, radical, sexual, side effects, urinary | 6 Comments »
Two analyses of Italian and US databases have investigated whether delaying initiation of radiation therapy could diminish the side effects of radiation after prostatectomy. The conventional wisdom is that waiting longer allows the newly cut tissues more time to heal completely before the onslaught of radiation. … READ MORE …
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A small, randomized trial in a group of 60+ Australian patients has demonstrated that a supervised exercise program started at the same time as initiation of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) can have multiple beneficial results, including (at least temporary) avoidance of known side effects of ADT. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: ADT, androgen, deprivation, exercise, outcome, side effects, supervision | 2 Comments »
Late last week we commented briefly on a paper (by Darwish-Yassine et al.) entitled “Evaluating long-term patient centered outcomes following prostate cancer treatment: findings from the Michigan Prostate Cancer Survivor study.” … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management | Tagged: complications, long-term, quality of life, side effects, survivorship | 5 Comments »
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