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“Psychosocial interventions in prostate cancer offer limited benefits”
The heading above is the title of a Reuters-generated article on the Medcape Oncology web site. The article is based on a new review article just published in BJU International. Parahoo et al. carried...
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Assessing the “value” of new drugs in the treatment of [prostate] cancer
Yesterday the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) issued the initial draft of “a conceptual framework for assessing the value of new cancer therapies based on treatment benefits, toxicities,...
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USPSTF to re-assess harms and benefits of PSA-based screening for risk of...
Yesterday the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) posted detailed information about a new draft research plan related to screening for prostate cancer. The USPSTF is seeking public comment on...
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Testosterone treatment in aging men with hypogonadism
Testosterone levels tend to fall in most men as we age. This is hardly new information! An article this week in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that treatment with testosterone gels is...
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And back to the screening controversy, yet again …
Four very recent articles and presentations have addressed issues relevant to the use of the PSA test in testing/screening for risk of prostate cancer. An extremely detailed article by Roth et al. in...
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New immunotherapeutics aren’t working well when combined with standard forms...
A newly published article in the journal Science Translational Medicine has questioned the merits of treating prostate cancer patients with immunotherapies while they are simultaneously being treated...
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And now … data from the PCLO trial at 15 years …
A new update on the prostate cancer outcomes of the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial has given us a rather different interpretation of the meaning of the data from...
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Kaiser reports on quality of life outcomes after first-line treatment for...
Kaiser Permanente maintains a large data registry in order to assess the quality of outcomes over time among tens of thousands of Kaiser patients, prostate cancer patients included. In the current...
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An update on “screening” for prostate cancer: four perspectives
To quote the abstract of the paper discussed below, the use of the PSA test to screen for risk of prostate cancer “in men at normal risk of prostate cancer is one of the most contested issues in cancer...
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Patients’ understanding of the risks and benefits of first-line treatment
A newly published article in BJU International has (finally) proven something many prostate cancer educators and advocates have known for years: many patients have a very poor appreciation of the risks...
View ArticleAre we all talking about AS the same way? Not yet!
An interesting new article in The ASCO Post tells us almost as much about the physicians who treat prostate cancer as it does about the options that are available to patients. Unfortunately, articles...
View ArticleProstate ablation using HIFU — the role of patient preference information
A newly published review by staff of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FD) addresses the potential role for patient preference information...
View ArticleSurvival of men with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer
There has been regular discussion here and elsewhere about the degree to which new forms of therapy have impacted patient survival since the original approval of docetaxel for treatment of metastatic,...
View ArticleThe pros and cons of “screening” for prostate cancer
A newly published article by Shoag et al. in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has suggested that the risks associated with “screening” for prostate cancer using the PSA test may not be as...
View ArticleHow does your doctor do prostate biopsies?
So (in our opinion) the time has come — for a whole bunch of reasons — for actual and potential prostate cancer patients to start asking their urologists about whether they are able to carry out...
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