In the realm of medical advancements, the treatment of prostate cancer, a significant health concern for middle-aged men, has seen remarkable progress. This article, tailored for students from elementary to high school, aims to educate you on the basics of prostate cancer, new therapies, and ho...
Prostate cancer: new treatments for localized tumours-what matters first?High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) represents a fairly new treatment option for focal therapy of prostate cancer. However, studies evaluating its efficacy have not provided strong data to support the use of HIFU in the ...
Prostate cancer is often an indolent disease, and delays in treatment up to 6 months do not seem to affect cancer-free survival. Inadequate pre-treatment assessment and uninformed shared decision-making can lead to decision regret and disparities in receipt of treatments. Time is on our side to...
If your PSA levels go up, it’s a sign that the cancer has started growing again. If this happens, your cancer is considered castrate-resistant, and hormone deprivation therapy is no longer an effective treatment. You’ll also get other blood tests to see if the cancer is affecting other ...
Black patients with prostate cancer have historically been underrepresented in clinical trials, leading to insufficient data on the effectiveness and safety of new treatments for this group.1 In a phase II trial involving 100 patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), 50 ...
With prostate cancer, when looking at where the long-term treatments are going, it is probably going to evolve more into how we are dealing with more advanced stages of prostate cancer. Like most cancers in general, [we will be] looking at what potential immunotherapies in the future would ...
Newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients with disease confined to the capsule have a number of alternative treatments like brachytherapy, ablation, cryoablation, Nanoknife, HIFU or Proton Beam Therapy available to them, not just Active Surveillance, surgery or radiotherapy; these alternatives are more wi...
Active surveillance allows patients to delay or avoid invasive treatments and their associated side effects. It aims to balance keeping a close watch on the cancer while avoiding treatments unless they are truly needed. All leading medical groupsrecommend active surveillanceas the preferred approach to...
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
Along with active surveillance, a full range of treatments for prostate cancer is available, includingradiation therapy;hormone therapy; cryosurgery; chemotherapy; and surgery, including robotic prostatectomy. "One of the things that has really changed over the last few years is the management of radi...