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Urine assay ruled out high-grade prostate cancer

Posted on: 21/06/2015 - 19:14

NEW ORLEANS – A urine assay test can provide a high negative predictive value to rule out the presence of high-grade, clinically significant prostate cancer without the need for a digital rectal exam...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

STAMPEDE: Upfront chemo prolongs life in men with advanced, hormone-naive prostate cancer

Posted on: 14/05/2015 - 15:16

CHICAGO – Using chemotherapy earlier in the course of advanced prostate cancer improves outcomes, according to first survival results of the STAMPED... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Bladder cancer ‘no longer one single disease’

Posted on: 02/03/2015 - 20:36

ORLANDO – Gene expression profiling can identify intrinsic bladder cancer subtypes, predict the clinical response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and s... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Testicular cancer history ups risk for higher-risk prostate cancer

Posted on: 27/02/2015 - 18:06

ORLANDO – Men with a history of testicular cancer are at higher risk for prostate cancer than men with a history of melanoma, and testicular cancer ... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Bicalutamide improves OS in locally advanced prostate cancer

Posted on: 26/02/2015 - 19:36

ORLANDO – Bicalutamide significantly improved overall survival of men with locally advanced, nonmetastatic prostate cancer, but offered no additiona... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

ADT plus RT more effective in reducing prostate cancer mortality than ADT alone in geriatric men

Posted on: 05/01/2015 - 21:00

Among older men with high-risk prostate cancer, receiving androgen-deprivation therapy in combination with radiotherapy reduced cause-specific and all... More »

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Androgen-deprivation therapy linked to cardiac death

Posted on: 29/10/2014 - 17:18

Androgen-deprivation therapy for prostate cancer may increase the risk of cardiac death among men who have congestive heart failure or who have experienced a previous myocardial infarction, a...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Adding abiraterone improves suppression of intraprostate androgens

Posted on: 13/10/2014 - 21:24

Adding abiraterone to standard neoadjuvant therapy using luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonists induces markedly more effective androgen suppression within the prostate tissue in men who have...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Hypofractionation, vessel-sparing RT techniques for prostate cancer yield good QOL

Posted on: 10/10/2014 - 16:32

SAN FRANCISCO – Use of a shorter, more convenient course of radiation therapy for prostate cancer or a technique that spares blood vessels critical for sexual function yields good long-term quality...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Specific pattern of male pattern baldness linked to aggressive prostate cancer

Posted on: 24/09/2014 - 15:55

Men with a combination of frontal and moderate vertex baldness at age 45 were at a significantly increased risk of having aggressive prostate cancer in a large prospective cohort study, according to...

Field of Interest: Oncology

Type: News Item

Urine assay ruled out high-grade prostate cancer

STAMPEDE: Upfront chemo prolongs life in men with advanced, hormone-naive prostate cancer

Bladder cancer ‘no longer one single disease’

Testicular cancer history ups risk for higher-risk prostate cancer

Bicalutamide improves OS in locally advanced prostate cancer

ADT plus RT more effective in reducing prostate cancer mortality than ADT alone in geriatric men

Androgen-deprivation therapy linked to cardiac death

Adding abiraterone improves suppression of intraprostate androgens

Hypofractionation, vessel-sparing RT techniques for prostate cancer yield good QOL

Specific pattern of male pattern baldness linked to aggressive prostate cancer

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