To the Editor:—In The Journal, March 7, page 855, there is a statement with regard to cancer of the prostate. In the first paragraph of the reply to the
Prostate cancer | Surgery | Infectious diseasedoi:10.1038/nrurol.2010.20
To evaluate any potential benefits of surgery, the researchers randomly assigned 731 men in the U.S. with localized prostate cancer to receive either surgery or just observation between 1994 and 2002. The average age of men in the study was 67 at the time of enrollment. Of the 364 men who...
After 30 years, most of the men who had died had died of causes other than prostate cancer. The risk of dying from prostate cancer during this period was 17 percentage points lower for those in the group offered surgery. These men also lived an average of 2.2 years longer than those whos...
On the other hand, if you have high-grade cancer cells, you may need surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy right away. Takeaways If you've had a prostate biopsy because your doctor suspects you have prostate cancer, a pathologist will use the Gleason Grading System to...
PROSTATE CANCER AND NERVE SPARING SURGERYAn abstract is unavailable.doi:10.1136/ijgc-00009577-200303001-00449Van PoppelInternational Journal of Gynecological Cancer
Prostate cancer is usually a very slow-growingcancer, often causing no symptoms until it is in an advanced stage. Most men with prostatecancerdie of other causes and many never know that they have the disease. But once prostatecancerbegins to grow quickly or spreads outside the prostate, it...
Surgery to remove the prostate saves lives compared to "watchful waiting" for some men whose cancers were found because they were causing symptoms, long-term results from a Scandinavian study suggest.
Although the notion that immune response localized to the tumor inhibits cancer growth is controversial, it is now clear that some types of tumor-associated immune cells exert actions at some point in PCa’s natural history [13]. In fact, the pivotal role of the immune system in PCa biology...
Monocyte-expressed PFKFB3 was indicative for tumor relapse specifically in colon but not rectal cancer [157]. Monocytes are not only indicators of systemic immune status, but can be also be programmed by systemic changes caused by all types of anti-cancer therapy: surgery, radiotherapy, ...