The article discusses prostate cancer and treatment options. New interventions such as high-intensity focused ultrasound and robot-assisted surgery have become available. Some men opt for traditional radiation therapy, while others decline any treatment. Quality of life weighs in the decision. Prostate ...
What is the outlook/prognosis for prostate cancer? When caught early and treated, patients with prostate cancer have a high chance of being cancer free after surgery. This will depend on the grade and extent of the cancer, as well as the patient’s other medical problems. While prostate canc...
Advanced tumors without metastases are treated with radiotherapy. Tumors with metastases are treated with drugs that are hormonal blockade (inhibition of testosterone) and generally have a poor prognosis. For more detailed information for the treatment of prostate cancer read about medicine Casodex. ...
Prostate cancer is comprised nearly always of adenocarcinomacells -- cells that arise from glandular tissue. Cancer cells are named according to the organ in which they originate no matter where in the body we find such cells. Thus, if prostate cancer cells spread in the body to the bones, ...
(nearby) lymph nodes to which the cancer has spread. Cancers with specific TNM characteristics are then grouped into stages, and the stages are then assigned Roman numerals with the numerals used in increasing order as the extent of the cancer being staged increases or the cancer prognosis ...
The prognosis ofprostate canceror the probability of relapse following primary therapy depends on the clinical stage of the tumor, Gleason score (histologic grade) and the PSA level before the primary treatment. The other important independent prognostic factors include the pathologic stage of the tumo...
patients will likely die from prostate cancer. Over the past two decades, serum PSA screening has provided a valuable tool for prostatecancer surveillance, however the age-adjusted incidence of mortality has remained relatively constant, therefore new tools are needed to guide prognosis and treatment....
Prostate-specific antigen levels and prognosis in patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer treatment with low-dose dexamethasone There are only a limited number of reports of treatment of prostate cancer with permanent prostate seed I(125) brachytherapy (PPB) in Europe. We describe r... M ...
In order to asses the prognosis of men with prostate cancer doctors use a grading system based on the biopsy samples, called the Gleason Score. The Gleason Score is part of the strategy of prostate cancer staging. Dr. David Samadi had a discussion with Dr. Michael Misalek on the Gleason ...
Treatment of prostate cancer 来自 ProQuest 喜欢 0 阅读量: 61 作者: Postma,R.摘要: Human prostate specific antigen (PSA) is a widely used tumor marker to prostate cancer diagnosis, prognosis and management. A prostate-specific oncolytic adenovirus CG7000 (formerly CN706 and CV706), was made ...