At the end of this month, on Tuesday, September 29, at 8:00-9:30 p.m. Eastern time (to be precise), there will be a second webinar in the series on the role of active surveillance in the management of favorable-risk forms of localized prostate cancer, coordinated by our good friend Howard Wolinsky and others. … READ MORE …
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The Prostate Active Surveillance Study (PASS), initially funded by the Canary Foundation, is a multi-center research study for men with low-risk disease who have chosen active surveillance (AS) to manage their prostate cancer. Active surveillance in PASS means closely monitoring men with prostate cancer and offering treatment if test results show the cancer is getting worse. … READ MORE …
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If you weren’t able to take part in the “live” presentation by Dr. Peter Carroll on “The past, present and future of active surveillance (AS)”, you can now view this either here on YouTube or here on the UroToday web site. This is the first in a series of four live video programs on AS-related topics. … READ MORE …
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We have heard from Howard Wolinksy that he and others have been helping to put together a series of four webinars on different aspects of active surveillance (AS) for the management of favorable-risk prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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At the end of last year, Dendreon announced that the Phase III ProVent trial of sipuelucel-T (Provenge) in the treatment of men with relatively lower-risk forms of prostate cancer (as compared to active surveillance) had been fully enrolled ahead of schedule. … READ MORE …
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Jane Brody is an experienced journalist who writes regularly about issues related to health care in The New York Times. Your sitemaster regularly reads her columns because she does her homework with care and provides sound information for her readers. … READ MORE …
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A couple of weeks ago, the full report on the Men’s Eating and Living (MEAL) study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It has generated a lot of discussion, some of which is distinctly misguided. … READ MORE …
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In a presentation at the ASCO annual meeting, Dr. Ronald Chen reported that just 32 percent of newly diagnosed men who were initially managed on active surveillance (AS) in North Carolina between 2011 and 2013 were actually managed in compliance with guideline recommended monitoring. … READ MORE …
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The annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) is one at which a great deal of information is exchanged, but a lot of that information is of limited utility to patients. … READ MORE …
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Active surveillance and its role in the management of lower-risk forms of prostate cancer, and related issues like MRI scanning, were clearly key topics of attention at the annual meeting of the European Association of Urology in Barcelona over the weekend. … READ MORE …
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Howard Wolinsky is a long-time prostate cancer patient who has been on active surveillance (AS) since his diagnosis in 2010, when one of his doctors described him as a “poster child” for active surveillance. … READ MORE …
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According to a brief research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week, there was a major increase in the application of active surveillance (AS) and watchful waiting (WW) in first-line management of prostate cancer between 2010 and 2015. … READ MORE …
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Over the years there has been a great deal of speculation (and a very small amount of data) suggesting that men who get diagnosed with relatively low-risk forms of prostate cancer may be able to delay progression of their disease by eating the right diet. … READ MORE …
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Under the heading “Rats, my PSA went up. Do I need another bleeping biopsy?” Howard Wolinsky provides us with the latest “lowdown” on his 8-year-long prostate cancer journey on active surveillance. … READ MORE …
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The prostate cancer research team led by Dr. Peter Pinto at the National Cancer Institute has just published some interesting new information on risk for disease progression in men on active surveillance. … READ MORE …
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