Prostate adenocarcinoma is present in over 80% of men over the age of 80 and is by far the most common cancer of men. Although radical prostatectomy is cur...vekri
80 years and olderJapanlocalized prostate cancerovertreatmentrelative survivalDespite treatment guidelines recommending observation for men with low‐risk prostate cancer with life expectancy <10 years, a majority of elderly patients choose active treatment, which may result in overtreatment. Given the ...
Figure2shows the K-M median non-prostate cancer survival by age at start of radiation treatment and the median all-cause survival for all men of the same age in the BC population. The median non-prostate cancer survival is greater than 10 years for men aged up to 80 years at start of ...
"Use of active surveillance has increased over the last 15 years for men withlow-risk prostate cancer, and it is now the most common treatment for these men," said Timothy Daskivich, MD, director of Urologic Oncology Research for the Cedars-Sinai Department of Urology and corresponding author...
Most of the estimated 192 000 men diagnosed as having prostate cancer in the United States this year will have clinically localized disease at the time of diagnosis.1 Treatment strategies for these men include radical prostatectomy, radiotherapy, primary androgen deprivation therapy(PADT), or expectan...
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, ...
Prostate Cancer Treatment Special MRI Helps Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy by Revealing Cancer Secret Oxygen-enhanced MRI may change how prostate cancer is treated, especially for men undergoing radiation therapy. Learn how this groundbreaking imaging technique can reduce radiation doses by tracking tumo...
Las Vegas--Brachytherapy is a growing treatment choice for menwith low-risk prostate cancer, although it is still selected by less than22% of men with the disease, according to San Francisco researchers. Theuse of androgen ablation has also increased, the researchers found in ananalysis of ...
Only 20 per cent of men over 50 would opt for surgical treatment if faced with localised prostate cancer, according to a study by Plymouth University. Dr Belen Lopez-Perez and Professor Yaniv Hanoch, from the University's School of Psychology, surveyed 279 men over 50 who had not had the ...
- 《Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy》 被引量: 168发表: 2005年 Hitting a moving target: evolution of a treatment paradigm for atypical meningiomas amid changing diagnostic criteria. The overall recurrence rate for expectantly managed tumors was 9% over 28.2 months, and 75% of recurrences responded ...