The article focuses on a study funded by the Cancer Research UK which stated that National Health Service (NHS) of Great Britain can save funds by using radiotherapy in the prostate cancer treatment.doi:10.1007/s40274-015-2613-9Springer International PublishingPharmacoeconomics & Outcomes News...
way of detecting recurrence early, at a time when it can still be cured by radiotherapy," chief investigator Professor Chris Parker, consultant clinical oncologist at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Professor in Prostate Oncology at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), told HCB News...
For this analysis, time to prostate cancer death is presented with cumulative incidence function rather than survival function; sub-HR is presented with 95% CI and p value. We used the method of Fine and Gray21 to estimate sub-HR. Cause-specific HRs are presented for both prostate cancer ...
Radiotherapy in combination with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is a standard treatment option for men with localized and locally advanced prostate cancer. However, emerging clinical evidence suggests that radiotherapy can be incorporated into multimodality therapy regimens beyond ADT, in combinations tha...
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Results Among 686 randomized patients (median [interquartile range] age, 70 [64-77] years; 503 (73%) men; 44% had prostate cancer, 19% had lung cancer, and 12% had breast cancer), 342 (49.8%) were analyzed for the primary end point (255 patients died before the 8-week assessment)...
Cancer immunotherapy has transformed traditional treatments, with immune checkpoint blockade being particularly prominent. However, immunotherapy has minimal benefit for patients in most types of cancer and is largely ineffective in some cancers (such as
Standard treatment schedules for women with breast cancer increasingly use fewer, larger fractions delivered to a lower total doses over shorter overall treatment times, and it appears that prostate cancer also resembles breast cancer in this respect6,7,8. It is likely that primary cancers arising...