Category: Prostate Cancer

  • Genetics and inherited prostate cancer risk

    Prostate Cancer: Major Genetic Risk Factor Found: “Harvard Medical School researchers have identified a DNA segment on chromosome 8 that is a major risk factor for prostate cancer, especially in African American men. The paper appears in the August electronic edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (also see PNAS’s news tip…

  • Hopkins researchers find a new test for prostate cancer screening

    Hopkins Researchers Find Better Blood Test for Prostate Cancer Source: consumeraffairs.com New studies of a blood protein recently identified at Johns Hopkins, early prostate cancer antigen-2 (EPCA-2), may change the way men are screened for prostate cancer — a disease that kills tens of thousands of men every year. Results showed that the EPCA-2 test…

  • Evidence based medicine and prostate cancer screening

    Evidence based medicine involves a practitioner using the best available clinical studies and their clinical judgement. There have been several websites that have helped assimilate all the available information and give a conclusion in easy to read format for physicians and patients alike. The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit organisation, providing up-to-date information about…

  • UCLA researchers come up with a better way to counsel patients

    Medical care can be a gamble–and patients often don’t understand the odds. University of California researchers aim to change that, with an interactive Web-based tool that they are calling the roulette wheel. This color-coded visual model uses a computer algorithm to help patients and their doctors assess the possible outcomes of different treatments. Source: Time.com…

  • Prostate Size a Limitation for Surgery?

    I recently saw a patient who had been biopsied by another urologist, found to have cancer and sent to a second urologist for evaluation for surgery. That second urologist does not do robotic prostatectomies and did not mention the option. He was also put off by the size of the prostate as estimated by ultrasound…

  • Prostate Surgery Outcomes

    I am in the process of putting together a personal website that wil be dedicated to prostate cancer and a resource for my patient’s and for urologists visiting the training center. I have updated my statistics for my davinci prostatectomy patients at www.roboticcancer.com

  • Low Blow: One mans story about his prostate surgery and recovery

    Low Blow – One man’s battle with prostate cancer: MSNBC.com This is one mans story about his bout with prostate cancer and his recovery from robotic prostatectomy. Mr. Stuckey should be commended for sharing his story, as it will help thousands of men deal with their cancer more effectively. Much of the anxiety men deal…

  • Prostate cancer choices

    Bloomberg.com: Prostate Cancer Hits One in Six Men, Fuels Angst Over Testing “These five stories tell a larger one. Within the U.S. medical community, sometimes within the same hospital, a debate is taking shape that may upend prostate cancer care. Doctors no longer agree on how to diagnose this disease or what to do about…

  • AUA Prostate Cancer review at medscape

    An excellent review on the abstracts presented at the AUA was done online at medscape. It offers 1.5 credits for physicians. One quote that I thought was interesting was: These 2 studies taken together indicate that there is a steep learning curve for laparoscopic prostatectomy, even if the robot is used. It is probably medicolegally…