Tag: recurrence
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UroToday – Percent Tumor Involvement and Risk of Biochemical Progression After Radical Prostatectomy
From UroToday: We examined the association between percent tumor involvement in the radical prostatectomy specimen and the outcome measures of pathological stage and biochemical progression using multivariate logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards analysis, respectively, in 2,220 patients from the Duke Prostate Center radical prostatectomy database. This was a study that showed that if you…
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Surgical experience affects prostate cancer control ‘regardless of risk’
From MedWire News – Oncology – Prostate cancer control after radical prostatectomy improves with increasing surgeon experience, regardless of patients’ risk, say US scientists who suggest that the primary reason for recurrence in low-risk patients is inadequate surgical technique. The team, led by Eric Klein from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, previously discovered that open…
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– Oncology – High saturated fat diet linked to postop biochemical failure
From MedWire News Among prostatectomy patients, those with diets high in high saturated fat (HSF) are almost twice as likely to experience biochemical failure as those who consume a low saturated fat (LSF) diet, say US scientists. Several studies have indicated that obesity is associated with an increased risk of biochemical failure after treatment with…
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Surgical volume related to cancer cure rates after prostate cancer surgery
UroToday – AUA 2007 – The Effect of Surgical Volume on the Rate of Seconday Treatment After Radical Prostatectomy They conclude that surgical volume is a determinant of treatment-failure when evidenced by the use of secondary therapies. Surgeons performing 24 RPs per year had the lowest rate of secondary treatment use.
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Prostate Cancer: Prostate cancer can metastasize after surgery with even low PSAs rarely
UroToday – Prostate Cancer Progression in the Presence of Undetectable or Low Serum Prostate-Specific Antigen Level Overall, 10 (22%) had undetectable serum PSA levels and 30 patients (65%) had PSA of less than 1ng/ml at the time of disease progression. Of the 25 men who had undergone radical prostatectomy, 7 were hormone na�ve at the…