A gay man is first diagnosed with prostate cancer at age 84. The cancer is aggressive and requires treatment. He struggles with the choice of treatment. Surgery is inadvisable because the cancer has already advanced beyond the capsule, and surgery raises the danger of possible metastasis. ...
Treatment guidelines recommend that curative radiation treatment of prostate cancer be offered only to men whose life expectancy is greater than 10 years. The average life expectancy of North American males is less than 10 years after age 75, yet many men older than 75 years receive curative radi...
prostate cancer has spread beyond the prostate and nearby structures, survival rates fall. "Distant" prostate cancer has moved into farther-away areas of the body, such as the bones, liver, or lungs. Among those with distant prostate cancer, about one-third will survive for 5 years after ...
Depending on the man's age and the amount of surgery needed to remove all the cancer, nerve-sparing operations allow many men who were able to get erections before surgery to be able to do so after surgery without the need for erectile dysfunction treatments. Laparoscopic robotic prostatectomy...
Prostate cancer is a major disease that threatens men’s health. Its rapid progression, easy metastasis, and late castration resistance have brought obstacles to treatment. It is necessary to find new effective anticancer methods. Ferroptosis is a novel
To determine an objective cutoff value (COV) for urinary incontinence (UI) using the Expanded Prostate Cancer Composite (EPIC) score after radical prostatectomy (RP). From 2004–2013, all RP patients at our institution completed the EPIC urinary domain (EPIC-UD) questionnaire preoperatively and 6...
recommendation against routine screening (i.e., PSA test or DRE) for prostate cancer. For men who desire PSA screening, it should only be performed after engaging in shared decision making. Furthermore, PSA-based prostate cancer screening should not be performed in men over 70 years of age....
It takes minimal effort to find out which screenings are recommended at every age, and talk to family members to determine a family history of illnesses. The next step is to make an appointment for an annual physical. For men who develop prostate cancer, those with a family history of the...
The hip fracture risk rises to eight times in men aged 50-65. Prostate cancer is now a leading cause of male deaths in the US and Europe. The latest study, in BJU International, shows that the fracture risk appears shortly after diagnosis and is still pronounced in long-term survivors....
foods. The FFQ was validated among 127 men in the HPFS. The correlations between the FFQ and four prospectively collected one-week weighed diet records were 0.67 for total fat, and 0.75 for saturated fat76. Because FFQ was mainly administered after the diagnosis of prostate cancer for the ...