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Less Frequent Prostate Cancer Screening: Good Idea?
]]> - Lengthening the interval between prostate cancer screening for men with low prostatic-specific antigen levels was, unsurprisingly, predicted to modestly reduce the risk...
18 hours ago - MedPageToday
Hypofractionated Radiation in Prostate Cancer Stands Test of Time
For localized prostate cancer, a hypofractionated radiotherapy regimen that cuts treatment time in half continues to have noninferior efficacy long-term relative to a...
3 days ago - Medscape
Lengthening prostate cancer screening intervals for men could improve outcomes
A new study in JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, published by Oxford University Press, finds significant benefits to lengthening the amount of time between...
5 days ago - News Medical
How patches made from human placenta could save men's love lives
Patches made from human placenta could prevent men becoming impotent following prostate cancer surgery. Incontinence and erectile dysfunction can occur in up to seven in ten men.
6 days ago - Daily Mail
PET Spots Prostate Cancer Mets Missed on CT, MRI
]]> - SAN FRANCISCO - More than a fourth of men with high-risk prostate cancer had lymph node or distant metastases missed by CT or MRI but detected by PET imaging targeting...
6 days ago - MedPage Today
Stalling Need for ADT in Recurrent Prostate Cancer
]]> - SAN FRANCISCO - Immediate treatment of limited metastatic recurrence of prostate cancer led to a fourfold improvement in the proportion of patients alive without androgen...
7 days ago - MedPage Today
Link Between Genetic Variant and Poor Outcomes in Advanced Prostate Cancer Discovered
A testosterone related genetic variant is associated with faster progression to treatment resistance and shorter overall survival in men with low-volume metastatic prostate...
7 days ago - Medindia Health
HSD3B1 genotype linked to worse outcomes in low-volume metastatic prostate cancer
The adrenal-permissive HSD3B1 genotype appeared associated with earlier castration resistance and shorter OS among men with low-volume metastatic prostate cancer, according to...
9 days ago - Healio
Cholesterol Drugs Might Help Curb Prostate Cancers
The study couldn't prove cause and effect, but it found that statins, taken alone or with metformin, did seem associated with an increase in survival.
9 days ago - Web MD
A Rare QoL Study That Could Change Practice
Two drugs comparably improve survival in the treatment of men with hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, so researchers looked at quality of life to see whether that was a...
9 days ago - Medscape - 2 articles
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Iron Deposits in Brain Reveal Cognitive Decline in Parkinson's Disease Patients
Measures of iron deposits in brain might eventually help predict which people with Parkinson's will develop dementia, said new study.
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VIDEO: Surgeon shares pearls for implanting toric IOLs in patients with...
ORLANDO - At Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Lisa Nijm, MD, JD, discusses her pearls for selecting patients with keratoconus who can benefit from toric IOL...
Less Frequent Prostate Cancer Screening: Good Idea?
]]> - Lengthening the interval between prostate cancer screening for men with low prostatic-specific antigen levels was, unsurprisingly, predicted to modestly reduce the risk...
Update for Osteoporosis Guidelines; Metformin for Childhood Obesity?
]]> - The Endocrine Society updated its osteoporosis clinical practice guidelines to cover use of romosozumab , which the FDA approved last year. (The Journal of Clinical...
VIDEO: Discuss cataract surgical plan in advance with patients
ORLANDO - At Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Jennifer M. Loh, MD, discusses what she tells her patients before cataract surgery, so her patients are more cooperative...
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