Prostate cancer is seldom spread by invasive procedures such as biopsies, prostatectomy, TURP, LDR brachytherapy, HDR brachytherapy, or insertion of fiducials for image-guided radiotherapy. We know this because those procedures have high cure rates. … READ MORE …
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A new review article in BJU International has addressed the perennial question of whether prostate biopsy is associated with a risk for spreading of the cancer (“seeding”) as a consequence of so-called “needle tracking” of prostate cancer cells. … READ MORE …
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As many of our readers will be aware, one of the great advances in radiation therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer has been the development of systems that allow targeting and delivery of radiation to the prostate with far greater accuracy than used to be the case back in the 1990s. … READ MORE …
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A new paper in Urologic Oncology, taken in combination with a media release and a video release from the UCLA Health System, have described a sophisticated method of combining data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the prostate with a three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound system to optimize outcomes of prostate biopsies. … READ MORE …
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