According to a report on the Renal & Urology News web site this morning, a new paper about to be published on line in European Urology (by He et al.) has shown that the new ISUP staging system can be used to project risk for prostate cancer-specific mortality, “regardless of treatment received or clinical stage at diagnosis”. … READ MORE …
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Risk stratification involves assigning patients to categories based on diagnostic risk factors. The goal is to identify those patients who are more or less likely to respond to specific therapies (or active surveillance). … READ MORE …
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Another new article (to be published in European Urology) has used data from > 25,000 patients to validate the proposed IUSP grading system, scheduled to replace the Gleason grading system over the next few years. … READ MORE …
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A paper in European Urology has provided us with additional early data on the applicability of the new ISUP grading system scheduled to replace the Gleason grading system over the next few years. … READ MORE …
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A review by Epstein in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Urology gives a detailed perspective on the current use of the Gleason grading system, with specific emphasis on the “removal” of Gleason patterns 1 and 2 in evaluating overall Gleason scores of biopsy samples and the value of “tertiary” Gleason pattern data. … READ MORE …
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