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ADT and changes in cognitive performance1 comment

Sitemaster wrote 2 weeks ago: A new — but very small and short-term study — has attempted to assess the baseline preva … more →

Tags: Management, Living with Prostate Cancer, Treatment, Hormone, Therapy, function, Cognitive, Performance

Prostate cancer news reports: Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: This morning’s news reports address: Patterns of use of PSA and DRE testing in the USA The va … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Management, Treatment, Drugs in development, Risk, PSA, Dre, ADT, LHRH agonist

Androgen deprivation therapy: overused and misunderstood?1 comment

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: There is an increasing belief among at least some opinion-leaders in the prostate cancer treatment c … more →

Tags: Management, Living with Prostate Cancer, Treatment, Hormone, Therapy

Hormone therapy and radiation treatment: a topical update1 comment

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: There are several recent reports that address factors specific to the combination of hormone therapy … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, Adjuvant, hormone therapy, neoadjuvant, Radiotherapy

ASCO commentary and update no. 2

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: In this commentary we will discuss four additional, significant papers presented yesterday in the ma … more →

Tags: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment, conservative management, nomogram, Risk, survival

The Thursday news report: April 2, 2009

Sitemaster wrote 3 months ago: The four articles addressed in today’s report address: Pesticides and risk for prostate cance … more →

Tags: Prevention, Diagnosis, Management, Living with Prostate Cancer, Risk, Risk, ADT, Pesticides, Asian dietary factors

Trials start for new form of androgen deprivation therapy4 comments

Sitemaster wrote 4 months ago: Volunteers are now receiving doses of GTx’s luteinizing hormone (LH) inhibitor — GTx-758 … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, Drugs in development, GTx-758, Oral, Phase I

Thursday's news reports: January 29, 2009

Sitemaster wrote 5 months ago: There are six news reports today, most of which can be dealt with quickly and briefly. They run the … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment, antibiotic, arsenic, biopsy, Cognition

New data from two studies on adjuvant radiation and thalidomide post-surgery

Sitemaster wrote 5 months ago: Biochemical recurrence after first-line treatment for localized prostate cancer affects some 30 to 4 … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, Drugs in development, survival, ADT, Progression, thalidomide, adjuvant radiotherapy

Does pretreatment T level affect survival?

Sitemaster wrote 6 months ago: In a paper just published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, the au … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, survival, brachytherapy, ADT, serum testosterone, baseline, PreTreatment

The belated Wednesday news: December 3, 2008

Sitemaster wrote 7 months ago: In addition to commentary on papers by Eden et al. and by Porter et al., dealt with separately, othe … more →

Tags: PSA, Screening, nomogram, UK

ASTRO prostate cancer reports: no. 31 comment

Sitemaster wrote 9 months ago: Prostate cancer reports from the 50th annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiolo … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, brachytherapy, Astro, external beam radiation

Prostate cancer news review: Thursday, July 24

Sitemaster wrote 11 months ago: Newly published studies today include data on: Risk for patients with prostate atypia on biopsy hav … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment, antiandrogen, atypia, Bicalutamide, brachytherapy, Cancer


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