October 2015

For those who think that men can’t die of prostate cancer, they can spend the day with me in clinic and meet some of the bravest men on the planet who are in the fight of their lives and are unfortunately afflicted with advanced metastatic prostate cancer.

The ability to obtain high-quality radiobiological information about the interactions between tumor and healthy tissue, when using ionizing radiations, would contribute to the development of more effective and personalized radiotherapy treatments.

The challenge of pelvic failure following contemporary cystectomy has been engaged and the clinical trials to pursue the amelioration of this problem have commenced.

The ipsilateral parotidean nodes may be at risk of metastatic involvement when bulky ipsilateral level II metastases and multilevel nodal disease are co-existent, possibly due to retrograde lymphatic drainage.

USPSTF guidelines may have decreased the number of patients presenting with prostate cancer for radiation oncology care, particularly those with low-risk disease, without a short-term increase in higher-risk disease.

A retrospective experience suggests that early glottic cancer treated with HRT results in a higher incidence of acute toxicity without improved control compared to CRT delivered in an appropriate OTT.