It was also suggested that the risk of these treatment modalities in the future might become so low that the question of treatment or no treatment of early prostate cancer may become irrelevant.doi:10.3109/02841869109092362F. H. Schröder
Prostate specific antigen screening has led to the early detection of prostate cancer. However, there has also been concern about the over diagnosis and overtreatment of patients with indolent cancers. We performed a population based analysis to evaluate the trade-off between excess treatment and prev...
"When we find very early prostate cancer, we can watch it for many years. And in case that prostate cancer becomes more aggressive, then we can treat it there. The problem is when you are not screened, and then you find a very aggressive prostate cancer that is still localized or it h...
Garnick discussed the early treatment of metastatic prostate cancer, total androgen blockade, and the cost of 1 year of flutamide therapy. He stated that 165 000 new cases of prostate cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the United States in 1993, with 25% of patients presenting with stage...
It makes sense that if a disease can be identified and treated early, outcomes can be improved. Our two most successful screening programmes, breast screening and cervical screening, are both for cancers that affect women. Prostate cancer is common and specifically affects men and so politically ...
This is particularly true of early prostate cancer. Symptoms usually appear when the tumor causes some degree of urinary blockage at the bladder neck or the urethra. The usual symptoms include difficulty in starting and stopping the urinary stream, increase in frequency of urination, and pain while...
understood, and patients are 2-3 times more likely than other countries to experience serious complications or death after surgery. The serious shortage of early cancer screening and effective cancer treatment facilities in these countries is also an important reason for the high ...
This review discusses prostate cancer screening and management decisions for elderly men, including the use of nomograms and predictive tools for life expectancy. 展开 关键词: Prostate cancer Screening Elderly Comorbidity Treatment Survival DOI: 10.1007/s13670-013-0041-x ...
Since the early 1990s, the PSA blood test has frequently been used as a tool for early detection of prostate cancer. However, its use for screening in asymptotic men has been controversial. "When the PSA came into the clinic for early detection, both good things and bad things happened," ...