The choice of the most appropriate focal therapy for localized prostate cancer can be influenced by tumour location. Author information Authors and Affiliations Department of Urology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Sammy Gharbieh, Joshua Mullin, Ata Jaffer, Daniel Chia &...
Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. naomi.allen@ceu.ox.ac.ukdoi:10.1038/nrurol.2009.47Naomi E. AllenTimothy J. KeyNature Reviews UrologyAllen,N.E. et al. (2009) Prostate cancer: neither vitamin E nor selenium prevents prostate cancer. Nat. Rev. Urol., 6, 187-...
Prostate cancer is a complex disease that affects millions of men globally, predominantly in high human development index regions. Patients with localized disease at a low to intermediate risk of recurrence generally have a favourable outcome of 99% over
cancer (OR: 1.28, p < 0.001) and specifically for significant prostate cancer (OR: 1.46, p < 0.001) in uni-variate analyses. However, multi-variate analyses using age, PSA, prostate volume, DRE and transrectal ultrasonography outcome, and previous biopsy (yes/no) showed that PSAV was not ...
The UK Biobank prospective cohort study is an important resource for the study of cancer aetiology. UK Biobank has measured concentrations of multiple biomarkers known to be related to several non-communicable diseases (i.e. cardiovascular, bone and joint, diabetes, renal and liver diseases) in bl...
1. National Cancer Institute. Cancer stat facts: prostate cancer. https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/prost.html. Accessed March 8, 2018. 2. Jahn JL, Giovannucci EL, Stampfer MJ. The high prevalence of undiagnosed prostate cancer at autopsy: implications for epidemiology and treatment of ...
In Canada , reported are 64.7 in Sweden 55.3, in Austria 51.6, In Finland 41.3 in UK 28.0 in Slovenia 20.7. The lowest rates are seen in some parts of China 0.5/100 000.There are no real recomendations for prostate cancer prevention. The prevention is carried out by nutritional counseling...
In the UK there are no screening programmes for prostate cancer. This is due to controversy regarding the benefits of screening and economic factors. There have been two large randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of prostate cancer screening reported. The largest (ERSPC: European Randomized Screening...
Sources: Office for National Statistics; Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland; Welsh Cancer Intelligence & Surveillance Unit; Northern Ireland Cancer Registry; Cancer Research UK Cancer mortality – UK statistics (Nov 2010); Maddams et al (2009). Full size image We estimate pathways for the...
Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK Ali Amin Al Olama, Sara Benlloch, Paul Pharoah, Laura Fachal, Margaret Cook & Douglas F. Easton Department of Clinical Neurosciences...