Sally Squires
Several options are available to you for the treatment of prostate cancer. We carefully go over each of the choices with you and your loved ones. There are different approaches to prostate surgery: open, laparoscopic, and da Vinci Prostatectomy, as well as several non-surgical therapies: radiat...
making a treatment decision. Treatment may include watchful waiting, a single therapy, or some combination of radiation, surgery, hormone therapy, and less commonly chemotherapy. The choice depends on many things. Prostate cancer that hasn’t spread usually can be cured with surgery or radiation. ...
Prostate cancer that hasn’t spread usually can be cured with surgery or radiation. Watchful waiting Since prostate cancer can grow slowly and may not be fatal in many men, some patients -- after discussing the options with their doctors -- opt for "watchful waiting." This means not ...
Brachytherapy is a radiation therapy that can be used as a prostate cancer treatment. Sometimes referred to as interstitial radiation therapy, seed therapy, or seed treatment, prostate brachytherapy is capable of delivering high and concentrated doses of radiation to the prostate gland. Radiation’s ...
The early published literature on post–radiation therapy pathology in patients with prostate cancer is based on treatment with external beam radiation. However, brachytherapy techniques produce the same pathologic changes.
teach surgical, pharmacologic, and chemotherapeutic/radiation treatment methods to medical students here. Many patients with prostate cancer will benefit from some kind of surgery, and in late-stage cancer, we can use hormone-ablating drugs, chemotherapy, and radiation to extend life and relieve pain...
Prostate cancer is a polygenic disease with a large heritable component. A number of common, low-penetrance prostate cancer risk loci have been identified through GWAS. Here we apply the Bayesian multivariate variable selection algorithm JAM to fine-map 84 prostate cancer susceptibility loci, using ...
Organ tracking through fiducial markers and electronic portal imaging is able to reduce the spread of displacements, significantly contributing to improve the ballistic precision of radiation delivery. 展开 关键词: Image-guided radiotherapy Prostate cancer Fiducial markers Gold seeds Treatment margins ...
Whether to pursue aggressive treatment options, such as surgery or radiation, or a less aggressive approach, called active surveillance, in early prostate cancer; and What are the potential risks and benefits of each treatment option. This protocol will provide the information that patients and their...