To examine the longitudinal relationship between the systemic inflammatory response, circulating T-lymphocyte subpopulations, interleukin-6 and -10 in patients undergoing immunotherapy for metastatic renal cancer, as the inflammation-based Glasgow Prognostic Score (GPS) provides additional prognostic information...
New research has found that men over 60 years of age with low-risk prostate cancer could spend 10 years with no active treatment, enabling them to have a better sex life and lower risk of mortality from the disease, according to a press release from a pair of studies presented...
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Low- and Low-Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer: Is there a Dose Effect? This study examines the efficacy and toxicity of two stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) dose regimens for treatment of early prostate cancer. Forty... AJ Katz,S Michael,A ...
says the VA's success raises its standard of care oflow-risk prostate cancerto levels seen in other countries like Sweden, where active surveillance rates top 70 percent. And it offers hope, she says, for
Active surveillance is increasingly viewed as the preferred approach for management of lower-risk prostate cancer. However, there is limited information on how long patients remain on active surveillance before converting to active or definitive treatment, such as surgery or radiation therapy. ...
you. Every other year we will make an MRI or a biopsy to make sure that the cancer is not advanced. This is for people who are compliant, they have low-risk prostate cancer, they may be older and they may have a lot of co-morbidities that w may not want them to be too ...
A number of forms of radiation therapy are now commonly used for the treatment of low-risk prostate cancer (LRPCa). The tumour control rates are typically excellent, and the risk of death from prostate cancer very low regardless of the treatment modality. This is despite there being a paucity...
Las Vegas--Brachytherapy is a growing treatment choice for menwith low-risk prostate cancer, although it is still selected by less than22% of men with the disease, according to San Francisco researchers. Theuse of androgen ablation has also increased, the researchers found in ananalysis of ...
Conclusions: A new definition of the treatment volume excluding the anterior base for low-risk prostate cancer patients may be justified 展开 关键词: Prostate cancer Brachytherapy Treatment volume Prostate specific antigen Gleason score Clinical stage DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(98)00434-9 被引量: ...
Men without low-risk prostate cancer have been found to be undergoing potentially unnecessary and expensive treatment. The instilled fee-for-service healthcare model is suggested a cause for blame in the rise of unnecessary tests. NBC News reports: Despite new guidelines recommending “watchful ...