As it does every year, the American Cancer Society (ACS) has just published it’s annual update cancer statistics update: Cancer Facts & Figures 2017. Those who are interested are of course welcome to peruse this detailed document for themselves. What follows is a quick summary of the prostate cancer-related data in the ACS update. … READ MORE …
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Finally, we may have the perfect paper that illustrates the critical difference between overall mortality rates and cancer-specific cancer rates among men with prostate cancer, and how affecting one may have no effect whatsoever on the other! … READ MORE …
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In a recent commentary, we looked at the utility of surrogate endpoints in evaluating therapies. … READ MORE …
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Zaorsky et al. conducted a meta-analysis of 12 randomized clinical trials covering data on 6,884 patients treated with external beam radiation at various dose levels. … READ MORE …
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According to a media release and a presentation given at the European Association of Urology (EAU) in Europe this week, statin therapy has a small but significant impact on overall and prostate cancer-specific mortality rates. … READ MORE …
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Based on a specific case study, a new paper in Circulation by a group of clinicians at Vanderbilt University Medical Center describes their program designed to reduce risk of death from cardiovascular disease for prostate cancer patients on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). … READ MORE …
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Historic data have long suggested that men with prostate cancer who are in a stable, married (or a long-term “partnered”) relationship have better long-term survival than single males. … READ MORE …
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It has been hypothesized for some time that men diagnosed with a low PSA level (i.e., < 4.0 ng/ml) but a high Gleason score (of 8, 9, or 10) are at elevated risk for more advanced disease and a shorter survival time than some others. … READ MORE …
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In an article published on Monday September 28, in Pharmaceutical Executive (a well-known biopharmaceutical industry trade journal) a senior health care public relations executive recently laid out a detailed rationale for why the industry needs to do a better job … READ MORE …
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An article in the July issue of the journal Radiation Oncology, along with a commentary on the UroToday web site, provides us with some interesting insights about the long-term survival of patients initially diagnosed with more advanced forms of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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A newly published paper in the Scandinavian Journal of Urology comes to the potentially controversial conclusion that “the gain in life expectancy” after surgical treatment by radical prostatectomy “is minimal” for Danish men with prostate cancer compared to the life expectancy of Danish men in general. … READ MORE …
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