Imaging tool shows accuracy for lymph node staging
October 1st 2015Positron emission tomography with a 68Gallium-labeled ligand of prostate-specific membrane antigen (68Ga-HBED-PSMA-PET hybrid imaging) is a promising new diagnostic tool for staging prostate cancer, according to German urologists who presented their experience at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago. Get results
Advanced prostate cancer: Why men aren’t speaking up
October 1st 2015Hear and get results from Neal Shore, MD, as he discusses with Crystal Murcia, PhD the surveys findings, explains why men aren’t speaking up about their prostate cancer symptoms, and urologists' role in assessing how patients are feeling.
Men who delay RP show no added risk of adverse pathology
September 1st 2015After accounting for the risk of reclassification, carefully monitored men with favorable-risk prostate cancer who enroll in active surveillance and undergo delayed surgery are no more likely to demonstrate adverse features associated with 15-year prostate cancer-specific mortality than their counterparts who elect immediate curative treatment, say researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Brady Urological Institute, Baltimore.
Targeted Bx shows efficacy in surveillance cohort
September 1st 2015After a median of 2 years in an active surveillance cohort being followed with multiparametric-magnetic resonance imaging and MRI-transrectal ultrasound fusion-guided biopsy (“targeted biopsy”), rates of biopsy-proven pathologic progression are similar among men with low-risk and intermediate-risk disease, say researchers from the National Institutes of Health.
Focal, whole-gland cryo yield similar cancer control
September 1st 2015Among men who are potent and have low-risk prostate cancer, focal cryotherapy appears to deliver similar oncologic control but with much better recovery of erectile function than a whole-gland approach, according to an analysis using data from the Cryo On-Line Data Registry.
Prostate Ca radiation therapy cost drivers analyzed
August 24th 2015The cost of radiation therapy for prostate cancer in the United States varies substantially, and most of the variation is accounted for by factors that are not related to the patient or tumor, according to the results of a study published online in Journal of Oncology Practice (Aug. 11, 2015).
New Products: App helps moviegoers with OAB, new mesh for sacrocolpopexy, and more
August 1st 2015In this round-up of new urology products and services, learn about an app that helps moviegoers with OAB, a new mesh for sacrocolpopexy, and device/smartphone app that help women with pelvic floor exercises.
Proposed budget would cut PCa programs
August 1st 2015Congress doesn’t appear to like very much President Obama’s FY 2016 budget proposal to eliminate funding for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention activities that are focused on education about prostate cancer screening and treatment, as well as tracking disease incidence and mortality data.
Active surveillance for PCa has ‘hit the prime time’
June 30th 2015Active surveillance for men with low-risk prostate cancer has made it to prime time. That was the message of Stacy Loeb, MD, who moderated a press conference at the AUA annual meeting, where four studies documented the increasing popularity and safety of active surveillance in managing low-risk disease.