If your cancer does come back, treatment options includeradiationin the area where your prostate used to be, and hormone therapy. Having these treatments can reduce the risk that your cancer will grow and spread.
PSA levels can be confusing. They can go up and down for no obvious reason. They can rise after treatment. And levels tend to be higher in older men and those with large prostates. Plus, the PSA blood test isn't precise. That's why doctors watch your results over time instead of foc...
The differ- ence was large, the patient characteristics were well-balanced and the trial had sufficient numbers to ensure adequate statistical power. However, there are some caveats with the trial design to consider and discuss. The first caveat was the relatively short, 6 months, duration of ...
The PSA test is used to monitor men after surgery or radiation therapy for prostate cancer to see if their cancer has recurred (come back). If a man’s PSA level begins to rise after prostate cancer treatment, it...
On univariate analysis, preferential hormone therapy (PHT) (p=0.022), higher PSA at SRT (p=0.005), and higher PSA after surgery (p=0.003) were related to a shorter biochemical survival period. On multivariate analysis, lower PSA at SRT (p=0.016), higher radiation dose (p=0.007), and ...
Treatment-related toxicity was graded according to the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) criteria [9] and the Expanded Prostate-cancer Index Composite (EPIC) score for urinary incontinence [10]. After radiation, patients were followed every 6 months by a radiation oncologist and a urologist ...
To determine if there is a subgroup of patients with pretreatment PSA ≥ 20 ng/ml with a favorable outcome after external beam radiation therapy. We analyzed retrospectively treatment outcomes of 129 patients with pretreatment PSA ≥ 20ng/ml treated in our department from 2/88–8/94. ...
After surgery or radiation, medical providers watch for a cancer relapse with PSA and PSADT test results. Those numbers plus your original risk category are considered together when deciding what treatment course to follow—the faster the PSADT and the higher your risk category, the more aggressive...
After sterilization with 100% Ethanol and UV radiation (20 min both sides), mPCL scaffolds were seeded with osteoprogenitor cells (800,000 cells/scaffold) in a 5 µL drop in the centre of the scaffolds. After attachment (4 h), scaffolds were cultured in growth media (GM) (MEM-...
Purified PSA+ (i.e., GFP+DsReD+) and PSA−/lo (GFP−DsRed+) cells at the indicated numbers were injected subcutaneously into the intact or castrated male mice. All tumors were harvested in 2–3 months. c PSA+ (i.e., GFP+) and PSA−/lo (i.e., GFP−/lo) LAPC9 cells ...