This study provides an interesting insight into the US-American hospital system. Compared to the European situation, the cost-driven reduction in hospital-stay has been carried a lot further in the American system

The authors of this study have taken the frequency of perineural invasion in prostatic cancer as a starting point to further investigate prostatic neuroanatomy in a quantitative manner

These two studies based on large data analyses represent important and significant findings in view of long-term adverse treatment effects of radiotherapy

It is still an open question how to best handle this group of patients. Current recommendations are that men with prostate cancer who are being treated with androgen deprivation should have their bone mineral density monitored...

In this recent paper, Sarfaraz and collaborators show for the first time that expression levels of both cannabinoid receptors CB1, CB2, are higher in human prostate cancer cells than in normal cells

The clinical implications of both studies should be the same; that men with well differentiated tumours do not always benefit from aggressive treatment

Burger and colleagues have previously shown a high density of prostatic stem cells in the proximal regions of the prostatic ducts

The major finding of the HOPE and HOPETOO trials, is the lack of benefit for vitamin E in preventing cancer or major cardiovascular events after a prolonged period of treatment and observation

As the authors were able to validate both their assumptions on prostate cancer, they drew the conclusion that mtDNA mutations do play an important role in the etiology of prostate cancer

The implementation of such high-volumepolicies is fraud with many assumptions andunsolved questions