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Japanese experience with HIFU over 8 years
Investigators at Tokai University Hachioji Hospital in Tokyo have been using high-intensity, focused ultrasound (HIFU) to treat men with localized prostate cancer since January 1999. A newly-published… more →
THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK
Prostate cancer news reports: Saturday, November 21, 2009
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Sitemaster wrote 6 days ago: In today’s prostate cancer news reports there are brief comments on a number of interesting (i … more →
Japanese experience with HIFU over 8 years
Sitemaster wrote 6 days ago: Investigators at Tokai University Hachioji Hospital in Tokyo have been using high-intensity, focused … more →
Prostate cancer recurrence, PSADT, and patient comorbidities
Sitemaster wrote 1 week ago: D’Amico and his colleagues demonstrated some time ago that PSA velocity and PSA doubling time … more →
More on the value of HDR brachytherapy added to EBRT
Sitemaster wrote 1 week ago: A few days ago we reported on a study which concluded that the addition of high-dose-rate (HDR) brac … more →
The Sunnybrook active surveillance experience
Sitemaster wrote 1 week ago: Three articles published in the past few days provide additional insights into the potential of acti … more →
Evolution of "single port" laparoscopic prostate surgery
Sitemaster wrote 1 week ago: Early in the existence of The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink, in an article entitled … more →
Strict leak- and pad-free continence after RALP: is this the real truth?
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Sitemaster wrote 1 week ago: The issue of complete continence after radical prostatectomy is a subject that few in the urologic s … more →
Prostate cancer news reports: Friday, November 13, 2009
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Sitemaster wrote 2 weeks ago: In today’s prostate cancer news reports we have noted items on: The Prostate Cancer Risk Calcu … more →
IMRT alone vs. HDR brachytherapy + IMRT -- short-term outcomes are similar
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Sitemaster wrote 2 weeks ago: There have been strong suggestions over the years (at least from some physician groups) that the com … more →
Just how many RPs HAS your urologist done this year?
Sitemaster wrote 2 weeks ago: A new analysis of data from two independent databases suggests that (in the US) only 20 percent of u … more →
Managing prostate cancer in "unfit" geriatric patients
Sitemaster wrote 2 weeks ago: Falci et al. have reviewed available data on the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer in relat … more →
Predicting response to Taxotere chemotherapy
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Sitemaster wrote 2 weeks ago: We have no idea, prior to treatment, whether a specific individual with hormone-refractory prostate … more →
Prostate cancer news reports: Sunday, November 8, 2009
Sitemaster wrote 2 weeks ago: This weekend’s news report includes items on: Numbers of biopsy cores and accuracy of diagnosi … more →
More evidence for ketoconazole + dutasteride in CRPC
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Sitemaster wrote 2 weeks ago: The evidence supporting a role for the combination of dutasteride with ketoconazole as a form of sec … more →
Anticoagulants, radiation, and prostate cancer outcomes
Sitemaster wrote 3 weeks ago: Data presented last Monday at the annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (AST … more →
Non-ASTRO prostate cancer news reports: Friday, November 6, 2009
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Sitemaster wrote 3 weeks ago: In today’s news reports from sources other than the ASTRO meeting, we note items dealing with: … more →
Non-ASTRO prostate cancer news reports: Thursday, November 5, 2009
Sitemaster wrote 3 weeks ago: Other news reports today — from sources not related to the ASTRO annual meeting — addres … more →
Short-course radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer: two new trial results
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Sitemaster wrote 3 weeks ago: Two new studies reported at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting yeste … more →
More prostate cancer data from the ASTRO annual meeting
Sitemaster wrote 3 weeks ago: Based on retrospective analysis of 2,132 prostate cancer patients in their single-institution databa … more →
