1. Radiation Therapy For Prostrte Cancer Varies
(Modalities/Radiology )

... frequently with hormone therapy, watchful waiting or a radical prostatectomy. This report was published in the March 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. For most ...

2. Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer
(Modalities/Radiology )

... by a lack of published trials that compared the different options head-to-head, as well as other factors. In addition to traditional open surgery (or radical prostatectomy), they assessed the clinical ...

3. Endorectal MRI Benefit Seen in Prostate Cancer
(Communities/MRI)

... MR imaging along with proton MR spectroscopic imaging before radical prostatectomy. All had whole-mount step-section pathology maps available for correlation of imaging and pathologic analysis. At the ...

4. Immediate or Adjuvant Radiation Therapy After Radical Prostatectomy
(Modalities/Radiology )

Immediate RT improves survival. Patients with positive margins and seminal vesicle invasion are greatest benefactors of adjuvant therapy. Positive surgical margins occur in 11-38% of radical prostatectomy ...

5. The Role of Integrated 18F-choline PET-CT in Radical Prostatectomy
(Communities/PET)

A group from Italy presented an interesting study looking at the role of laparoscopic lymphadenectomy for nodal recurrence following radical prostatectomy (RP) and the staging role of 18F-Choline PET-CT ...

6. Robotic Surgery Expert describes the Benefits of Surgery for Organ Confined Prostate Cancer
(Modalities/Radiology )

... 13,000 American men who had a radical prostatectomy (surgical removal of a cancerous prostate gland) between 1987 and 2005, found that only 12% of them died of the cancer. This is great news, according ...

7. Calypso Medical Exhibits at American Urological Association Annual Meeting
(Company News/Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc.)

... of urology at the University of Texas Health Science Center, suggests that the addition of adjuvant radiotherapy within 18 weeks following radical prostatectomy in men with Stage III (pT3N0M0) prostate ...

8. [(11)C]Choline PET/CT in Prostate Cancer Patients with Biochemical Recurrence after Radical Prostatectomy
(Communities/PET)

... lymph node or distant metastasis was performed. Mean age was 64.9 years and all had a rising PSA after radical prostatectomy (RP). Nine had received adjuvant radiotherapy and were identified by 3 consecutive ...

9. Freezing Prostate Cancer Does a Man's Body Good
(Communities/Abdominal Pelvic)

... radical prostatectomy, get mapped. If TRUS doesn't show all the cancer that's present, you're not going to have the proper treatment," said Onik. With 3-D transperineal mapping, a grid placed over the ...

10. Few Major Complications in 30 Days After Prostate Radiotherapy
(Modalities/Radiology )

... Reuters Health. Dr. Alibhai and colleagues compared major 30-day complications in men who underwent RT or radical prostatectomy for nonmetastatic prostate cancer. "Despite being older and having more ...

11. HIFU prostate cancer hemiablation delivers perfect scores for patient contenance and potency
(Communities/Abdominal Pelvic)

... to radical surgery is radiotherapy or the radiation of the entire gland which has a side effect of radiating all/part of the patient's body. In his presentation Dr Ahmed quoted figures for radical prostatectomy ...

12. New research supports early testing for prostate cancer
(Communities/Abdominal Pelvic)

... non-screen detected prostate cancers: is there a difference? (Abstract 851) Pathological stage and surgical margins are important predictors of prostate cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomy. ...

13. The role of robotics in urology
(Imported/Imported)

Despite no clear evidence that robotic radical prostatectomy has huge advantages over open surgery, there is a significant growth in this market, coming from patients' word of mouth and use of the internet.Mani ...

14. MRI data useful in predicting insignificant prostate cancer
(Communities/MRI)

... and MR spectroscopy imaging (MRSI) before radical prostatectomy. They had clinical stage T1c or T2a prostate cancer, PSA levels < 20 ng/mL and Gleason scores of 6. Dr. Amita Shukla-Dave from Memorial ...

15. Detection of lymph-node metastases with integrated 11c-choline PET/CT
(Communities/PET)

... to detect presumed lymph node recurrences after radical prostatectomy (RP). Their report appears in the online version of European Urology. The study was prospectively performed between 2002 and 2005. ...

16. Use of MRI and MRS with new surgical technique proves helpful, says study
(Communities/MRI)

MRI and MRS can provide a roadmap of the prostate and assist in surgical planning of robotically assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALRP), according to a recent study. MRI and MRS can provide ...

17. Predicting the outcome of salvage radiation therapy for recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy
(Imported/Imported)

... cancer after radical prostatectomy.While a rising, detectable PSA after radical prostatectomy is undoubtedly associated with recurrent cancer determining whether the patient has a local or systemic relapse ...

18. Real-time elastography for detecting prostate cancer: preliminary experience
(Imported/Imported)

... cancer in men prior to radical prostatectomy. Their findings appear in the June 2007 issue of the BJU International. For the study 15 consecutive patients were examined with RTE prior to RP. Mean age ...

19. Clinical predictors of Gleason score upgrading identified
(Imported/Imported)

... involved 175 men with low-risk prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy. All of the men had a Gleason score of no greater than 6 at biopsy. The main focus was to identify preoperative factors ...

20. Real-time elastography accurately detects prostate cancer
(Imported/Imported)

Real-time elastography accurately detects prostate cancer in men scheduled for radical prostatectomy, according to a report in the July BJU International. "Elastography is a contrast-media-free technique, ...