Prostate Cancer

Neal D. Shore, MD, FACS, medical director, Carolina Urologic Research Center, Myrtle Beach, discusses a long-term safety analysis of the COU-AA-302 study, which he presented at the 2014 AUA Annual Meeting.

Deepak A. Kapoor, MD, from Integrated Medical Professionals, PLLC, discusses the inclusion of radium-223 in the AUA guideline for castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).

Analysis of trends in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) dynamics suggested that PSA growth rates, as well as the amount of PSA-level increase due specifically to cancer, might offer a means of distinguishing aggressive, potentially fatal prostate cancer from clinically inconsequential tumors.

Christopher P. Evans, MD, professor, chairman, Department of Urology, University of California at Davis School of Medicine, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the results of an analysis of patients with and without visceral disease defined as liver and/or lung metastases who participated in the PREVAIL study.

Men given the GnRH antagonist degarelix because their PSA level rose after primary therapy fared at least as well on an intermittent medication schedule as on a continuous schedule

E. David Crawford, MD, from University of Colorado at Denver, discusses a study presented at the 2014 AUA Annual Meeting that analyzed intermittent androgen deprivation with degarelix.

Daily treatment with the PDE-5 inhibitor tadalafil (Cialis) led to a significant decrease in loss of penile length among men who had undergone bilateral nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy.

When it comes to detecting prostate cancer accurately and noninvasively, dogs may be ahead by a nose.

Prostate cancer patients who chose active surveillance did not compromise their chances of a cure by waiting before they underwent radical prostatectomy, data from a Swedish registry showed.

Tomasz Beer, MD, FACP, professor of medicine, deputy director of the Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, characterizes the immune-related adverse events associated with ipilimumab in a phase III metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer trial.

New prostate cancer screening guidelines that seek to balance overtreatment concerns with the need to preserve gains in curbing prostate cancer mortality were unveiled at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network's 19th Annual Conference.

A rising prostate-specific antigen after surgery or radiation therapy for prostate cancer is not enough reason, on its own, to initiate androgen-deprivation therapy.

A recent study that followed men newly diagnosed with localized prostate cancer for a median 18 years found that immediate radical prostatectomy significantly cut death rates as compared with watchful waiting with treatment upon progression, especially in men with intermediate-risk disease.

Two recent studies have raised questions about current trends in prostate cancer (PC) treatment, one supporting the employment of a little-used strategy-direct treatment of the primary tumor in men who have metastatic PC at diagnosis

Despite being quite popular, the dietary supplements vitamin E and selenium do not protect men from developing prostate cancer, and in fact greatly increase risk in certain patients if taken at doses higher than those recommended

Evan Y. Yu, MD, from Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses the association of alkaline phosphatase with outcomes in chemotherapy-naive patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Robert Dreicer, MD, MS, professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, chairman, Department of Solid Tumor Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, comments on current clinical trial endpoints in prostate cancer.