Tag: prostate

  • Prostate Cancer: Surgery for locally advanced prostate cancer

    Prostatectomy Effective for SV-Negative Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer At a mean follow-up of 37.2 months (median, 21.2 months), the pT3 (pT3a plus pT3b) patients’ overall and disease-specific 10-year survival rates were 77% and 92%, respectively, and at 15 years, 52% and 75%. These results are similar to those of previous studies for overall survival of…

  • Prostate Cancer: Is PSA Screening effective

    There were 2 articles summarized from the EAU 2007 conference on Urotoday. They seemed to be conflicting, with one saying that delaying therapy did not seem to hurt many people and the other concluding that screening helped. UroToday – EAU 2007 – Session on Prostate Cancer Screening: Dr. Pelzer, Innsbruck presented data that the pathologic…

  • Prostate Cancer: Obese men are more likely to have worse pathology reports than expected

    Dr. Koop – Biopsy Underestimates Prostate Cancer in Overweight Men: Researchers compared the biopsy grade to the cancer grade following radical prostatectomy, which is the removal of the prostate. In 1,113 men who underwent radical prostatectomy between 1996 and 2005 within the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital database, 299 men, or 27 percent, had…