Staging Prostate Cancer While the grade tells you how fast your cancer is growing, the stage lets you know how advanced the cancer is. Most doctors use the TNM staging system. It uses a number system to show how big the tumor is and how far the cancer has spread. TNM System T (Tumor...
Locally advanced prostate cancer is initially hormone-sensitive and is treated with hormone therapy, also called androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) or androgen suppression therapy. Approximately 50%...Borley N, Feneley MR. Prostate cancer: diagnosis and staging. Asian J Androl. Jan 2009;11(1):74...
The TNM staging is the most widely used system for prostate cancer staging and assesses the extent of primary tumor (T stage), the absence or presence of regional lymph node involvement (N stage), and the absence or presence of distant metastases (M stage). ...
Prostate cancer staging 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 17 作者:NJ Stephens,N Bharwani,SD Heenan 摘要: The diagnosis of prostate cancer is suggested by elevated prostate-specific antigen but is confirmed by histopathological examination of ultrasound-guided transrectal biopsies. Recent NICE ...
Lymphatic spread determines treatment decisions in prostate cancer (PCa) patients. 68Ga-PSMA-PET/CT can be performed, although cost remains high and availability is limited. Therefore, computed tomography (CT) continues to be the most used modality for PCa staging. We assessed if convolutional neur...
What do I need to know about prostate cancer staging?After cancer is found, your healthcare provider will assign a number called a Gleason score. The number can help you understand how quickly the cancer is likely to grow, and if it may spread: A number of 6 or lower means the cancer...
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Urology 66 (Suppl 5A): S47–S51 Experience counts: MRI-based prostate-cancer staging Controversy rages over which imaging tech- nique to use in the localization and staging of prostate cancer. Many small studies have been done, with contradictory results, but the differences in the imaging ...
摘要: This article reviews the conventional current techniques that are used for staging prostate cancer. The advantages and limitations of each modality are described. Attention is focused on the areas in which progress is rapidly being made and is likely to be developed in the future....
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