TROG 01.03 RADAR, begun in 2003, was a (partly) randomized clinical trial to help optimize therapy of unfavorable-risk patients. … READ MORE …
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In spite of data suggesting that brachy boost has better outcomes for high-risk patients, it is being utilized less often and surgery is being utilized more often. … READ MORE …
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Another subject that has come up a lot recently is when to have salvage radiation. It is always a pressing decision for those 30 percent of prostatectomy patients who have detectable PSA after prostatectomy. … READ MORE …
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Several clinical trials have established that adjuvant radiation reduces the risk of biochemical recurrence, but only one trial looked at and demonstrated an improvement in metastasis-free survival and prostate cancer-specific survival. … READ MORE …
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A newly published article in the journal Science Translational Medicine has questioned the merits of treating prostate cancer patients with immunotherapies while they are simultaneously being treated with medical forms of castration (androgen deprivation therapy or ADT), chemotherapy, and/or radiation therapy. … READ MORE …
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For many years now, The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink has argued (on the basis of no good data at all) that starting to do Kegel exercises prior to having surgery for prostate cancer was likely to be able to accelerate recovery of good continence after one’s surgery. … READ MORE …
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A combination of travel and other commitments made it difficult for your sitemaster to complete his summaries of significant information presented at this year’s annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA), so here’s the final wrap-up. … READ MORE …
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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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In a previous article, we looked at evidence that a low detectable level of PSA predicts eventual biochemical recurrence (a confirmed PSA greater than 0.2 ng/ml) when there is aggressive pathology. … READ MORE …
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Patients and their doctors often have to make a critical decision soon after surgery – at what point after surgery, if at all, should salvage radiation therapy be started? … READ MORE …
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There has long been discussion about the appropriate and inappropriate uses of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in the management of progressive prostate cancer. The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink has regularly commented on the inherent dangers of using ADT to “manage PSA levels” as opposed to managing a patient’s actual clinical condition. … READ MORE …
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The question of when one should initiate hormone therapy in a man who has a rising PSA after radiation therapy has long been a topic of controversy. And a reanalysis of data from RTOG 85-31 has not helped to give us a definitive answer. … READ MORE …
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THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK 