The results, released Saturday, are encouraging for men who want to avoid treatment-related sexual and incontinence problems, said Dr. Stacy Loeb, a prostate cancer specialist at NYU Langone Health who was not involved in the research. The study directly compared the three approaches — surgery t...
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK, accounting for almost a quarter of male cancers. Each year, nearly 32,000 men in the UK are diagnosed, and more than 10,000 die from the disease. Men have a one in 14 lifetime risk of developing prostate cancer. Cases are...
ONE in eight men in the UK will develop prostate cancer at some point in their lifetime and one man dies of the disease every hour of every day.Think about that for a second. Husbands, sons, brothers, uncles, nephews all across the UK are dying from prostate cancer - and the biggest...
Early stage cancer is when the cancer cells develop within the prostate. Men with early stage prostate cancer have a chance to get the condition treated and increase their survival rate. There are some prostate cancer treatments are as Active Surveillance...
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The availability of newer treatments for advanced prostate cancer as well as results from the STAMPEDE and CHAARTED trials has resulted in new challenges for patients and HCPs. This includes the impact of an increased workload on oncologists, a potential lack of clinical continuity between urology ...
NICE UK misses out effective treatments for early prostate cancer In May 2019 NICE in the UK concluded that men with low-risk prostate cancer contained in the prostate should be offered one of two treatment options - radiotherapy or surgery - or 'active surveillance'. This falls woefully short...
Chemotherapy is designed to kill fast-growing cancer cells anywhere in the body so it is often used when aggressive prostate cancer cells metastasize to other body sites. Usually, chemotherapy is given through a special intravenous line in a series of treatments over several months. There have bee...
FULL PAPER British Journal of Cancer (2013) 108, 1784–1789 | doi: 10.1038/bjc.2013.181 Keywords: prostate cancer; side effects; toxicity; health-related quality of life; prostatectomy; radiotherapy Quality of life after prostate cancer treatments in patients comparable at baseline J J van Tol-...
PLASMA system:During this surgery, electrodes are put into the prostate through the urethra and are used to cut out prostate tissue. This surgery is usually offered when symptoms are severe or if other treatments and medicine have not worked. ...