The treatment of prostate cancer is rapidly changing, and a new consensus for management is required. In this article, Oliver and Neal consider data from studies of hormone therapy, surgery, radiotherapy and active surveillance, and they discuss which options might be suitable in which patients....
"And we have also found that many patients who have just a few sites of metastatic disease, meaning that the cancer is not widely spread, can also benefit from aggressive treatment where we do a combination of radiation therapy and systematic therapy to put you back in remission where disease...
There’s no one prostate cancer treatment that’s right for every man, but there are plenty of options. Your doctor will consider many things when they recommend one for you, including: The size of your tumor and how far it has spread. This is called the stage of your disease. How qui...
Moreover, NB is the most common malignancy diagnosed within the first year of life [1]. It is likely to relapse and develop acquired drug resistance, posing a challenge in treatment [2]. The current treatment for high-risk NB involves chemotherapy and surgical resection followed by high-dose...
treatment with ADT or EBRT alone. The optimal duration of ADT has not been well-defined, with data supporting 18 to 36 months, while in practice, 2 to 3 years are frequently recommended by the United States and European guidelines, respectively [2,9,38]. The treatment outcomes for men ...
Sometimes, patients receive hormone therapy in combination with external beam radiation therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer. This treatment uses a high-energy X-ray machine to direct radiation to the prostate tumor. For patients with intermediate or high-risk prostate cancer, studies show th...
Nearly all had a clear biopsy after a second treatment of high intensity focused ultrasound, or HIFU." - Source: www.webmd.com What is so interesting is that whilst the protocol itself is rather crude, the heating protocol was successful, which is not surprising as it is scientifically ...
Prior to surgery, patients should be stratified by their initial PSA concentration, the ratio of number of positive biopsies to the total number of biopsies and the percentage of grade 4/5 disease, in order to evaluate the response to treatment (option). Histopathological findings from the radica...
213 Sandhu Dovepress of BPH and has been validated by the Medical Therapy of Prostate Symptoms (MTOPS) trial.4 Anti-cholinergic agents and phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors have also recently shown efficacy in the management of LUTS. Surgical therapy, despite being the mainstay of treatment for LUTS...
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