The incidence of prostate cancer increases with age, and elderly patients often have other accompanying diseases. The most important clinical prediction for deciding on curative treatment in localized prostate cancer treatment is the 10-year survival status of the patient. In ...
This review discusses prostate cancer screening and management decisions for elderly men, including the use of nomograms and predictive tools for life expectancy. 展开 关键词: Prostate cancer Screening Elderly Comorbidity Treatment Survival DOI: 10.1007/s13670-013-0041-x ...
Prostate cancer represents the second most common malignancy among males, after lung cancer. Increasing age is a key risk factor for prostate cancer and currently, the median age at diagnosis is 66 years. Although many older patients will die from competing causes, particularly those with frailty,...
Advanced age and associated diseases sometimes contraindicate radical prostatectomy or increase morbidity of surgery and toxicities of radiotherapy, hormonotherapy and chemotherapy applied for prostate cancer treatment. As a result, optimal therapeutic approach may be difficult in the elderly. Concurrent ...
Hormone treatment is more appropriate for locally advanced disease, and is a valuable non-surgical treatment for bladder outflow obstruction due to prostate cancer. A significant proportion of elderly men with prostate cancer still die from other diseases. Hormone refractory disease in the elderly ...
Abstract Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in elderly patients. Localized disease is treated following almost the standard of younger patients. However, the treatment depends on health status evaluation. Only patients in good health status with aggressive prostate cancer will benefit of curative...
locally-advanced prostate cancer in the elderly: should we revisit our treatment paradigms? prostate cancer G Lughezzani,M Nicoló,Buffi 被引量: 0发表: 2019年 In Defense of Being "Native": The Case for Insider Academic Research First, we revisit some of the established research paradigms to ...
prostate cancer. For example, an elderly patient (>age 80) with a small amount of prostate cancer may not necessarily be affected by the cancer due to its slow growing nature. In certain patient populations, treatment may lead to more harm than good. Each patient has a different story, ...
Therefore, it is to be kept in mind that prostate cancer in the elderly an be clinically significant and prostate biopsies are to be performed when necessary. 展开 关键词: Prostate adenocarcinoma elderly biopsy treatment DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2014.15.20.8937 被引量: 3 ...
Elderly and Early Prostate Cancer 来自 钛学术 喜欢 0 阅读量: 13 作者: K Stamatiou 摘要: Millions of people are now successfully using hormone antagonists for the treatment of endocrine-dependent cancers. In Hormone Therapy in Breast and Prostate Cancer, many of today's leading researchers and ...