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Blogs about: Living With Prostate Cancer

Risks for fatal heart attacks soon after prostate cancer diagnosis6 comments

Sitemaster wrote 4 days ago: A new study that examined data from nearly 170,000 Swedish prostate cancer patients over more than 4 … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Risk, heart attack, Suicide

New nomogram can predict aggressive recurrence after RP

Sitemaster wrote 5 days ago: Researchers associated with the Duke Prostate Cancer have re-calibrated an older nomogram (used to p … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, Aggressive, biochemical recurrence, PSA doubling time, PSADT, radical prostatectomy, Surgery

Prostate cancer news reports: Friday, December 11, 2009

Sitemaster wrote 1 week ago: Today’s news reports comment on: Prostate cancer incidence in Asia vs. the West PSA density as … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Risk, Asia, CRPC, incidence, Progression, PSA density, Upgrading

Of hops, prostate cancer, beer, exercise, and coffee1 comment

Sitemaster wrote 1 week ago: A report presented at a cancer prevention conference in Houston this week suggests that a compound f … more →

Tags: Prevention, Coffee, Exercise, hops

What the ProtecT study has taught us to date

Sitemaster wrote 1 week ago: The Prostate Testing for Cancer and Treatment (ProtecT) trial is being implemented in the UK to eval … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, incidence, Protect, Risk, Screening, UK

Prostate cancer news reports: December 8, 20097 comments

Sitemaster wrote 1 week ago: In today’s news reports we comment on articles dealing with: The declining rate of prostate ca … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, Treatment, elderly, mortality rates, Partin tables, Ralp, salvage

Testosterone replacement in hypogonadal prostate cancer patients

Sitemaster wrote 1 week ago: There continues to be controversy over the role of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) in men wit … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, testosterone replacement, TRT

Does control of S-ALP imply control of bone mets with degarelix?

Sitemaster wrote 2 weeks ago: Before the coming of the PSA test, urologists used to use serum acid phosphatase levels (usually) an … more →

Tags: Management, Degarelix, serum alkaline phosphatase

Prostate cancer news reports: Saturday, November 21, 20093 comments

Sitemaster wrote 3 weeks ago: In today’s prostate cancer news reports there are brief comments on a number of interesting (i … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, Frequency, Gleason 8-10, Outcomes, post surgery, PSA, stage T4

Take the prostate cancer sexuality survey

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink encourages prostate cancer patients and their partner … more →

Avanafil shows highly positive results in Phase 3 trial for ED1 comment

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: According to a company press release issued earlier today by VIVUS, Inc., avanafil, an investigation … more →

Tags: avanafil, ED, Erectile Dysfunction

The Sunnybrook active surveillance experience

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: Three articles published in the past few days provide additional insights into the potential of acti … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, active surveillance

Strict leak- and pad-free continence after RALP: is this the real truth?13 comments

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: The issue of complete continence after radical prostatectomy is a subject that few in the urologic s … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, Surgery, continence, Ralp

Prostate cancer news report: Monday, November 16, 2009

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: Three reports discussed today address the refinement of risk information in the diagnosis and progno … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, PSA, obesity, bmi, upstaging, Gleason score, tunor volume

Prostate cancer-specific mortality and Gleason grade5 comments

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: Several reports have clearly shown that biochemical recurrence (a rising PSA) after first-line treat … more →

Tags: Gleason score, prostate cancer-specific survival

Prostate cancer news reports: Sunday, November 8, 2009

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: This weekend’s news report includes items on: Numbers of biopsy cores and accuracy of diagnosi … more →

Tags: Management, Treatment, Risk, radical prostatectomy, PSA, biopsy, Progression, focal therapy, Cores

Non-ASTRO prostate cancer news reports: Thursday, November 5, 2009

Sitemaster wrote 1 month ago: Other news reports today — from sources not related to the ASTRO annual meeting — addres … more →

Tags: Diagnosis, Management, Treatment, USPSTF, PSA Testing, estrogen, renal in sufficiency, cetruximab, doxirubicin

New nanoparticle-based PSA test: preliminary data2 comments

Sitemaster wrote 2 months ago: A new article to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is claiming tha … more →

Tags: Management

ACP endorses use of PDE5 inhibitors for ED

Sitemaster wrote 2 months ago: The American College of Physicians (ACP) has just issued new guidelines that strongly endorses use o … more →

Tags: Management, Erectile Dysfunction, guideline, PDE5 inhibitor


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