key articles
Donating kidney does not increase long-term risk of death
Thursday, 11 March 2010- An analysis of outcomes for live kidney donors in the US over a 15 year period finds they have similar long-term survival rates compared to healthy individuals who were not kidney donors, according to a...
Edited by: ES
Dietary supplements discouraged for PCa patients
Wednesday, 10 March 2010- Prostate-specific dietary supplements should not be taken during radiation therapy treatments because they have been shown to increase the radiosensitivity of normal prostate cell lines, leading to...
Edited by: ES
Prostate cancer surgeons 'feel' with their eyes
Wednesday, 3 March 2010- Robotic surgical technology's 3-D HD view gives surgeons compensatory illusion of tactile sensation.Robotic surgical technology with its three-dimensional, high-definition view gives surgeons the...
Edited by: ES
Surgeon’s total case load affects prostatectomy patient outcomes
Thursday, 25 February 2010- A new US study suggests that prostate cancer patients treated by more experienced urologic surgeons with higher volumes of surgery achieve improved results.
Researchers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering...
Edited by: JV
Does type of surgery make a difference to prostate cancer outcomes?
Thursday, 25 February 2010- A new analysis of the outcomes of different types of radical prostatectomy appears to show no difference between the patients’ clinical outcomes following laparoscopic (including non-robot-assisted and...
Edited by: ES
Genetic mutation linked to prostate cancer in blacks
Wednesday, 24 February 2010- Researchers have identified a mutation in a small number of black American men with a family history of prostate cancer. The study was published online this week in the Asian Journal of...
Edited by: JV
Extended lymphadenectomy advised for intermediate- or high-risk prostate cancer
Monday, 22 February 2010- In men with intermediate- or high-risk prostate cancer, extended pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) during curative-intent surgery may improve detection of lymph node involvement, a retrospective study...
Edited by: ES
Advance toward test for aggressive prostate cancer
Tuesday, 16 February 2010- Harvard researchers report what they say is a major advance toward the long-sought goal of a genetic test that can distinguish between aggressive prostate cancers that require urgent treatment and...
Edited by: ES
QoL of prostate cancer patients differs by treatment choice
Thursday, 11 February 2010- Australian researchers have reported that various treatments for prostate cancer have “persistent effects on quality of life.” D.P. Smith and colleagues published their findings in the January...
Edited by: JV
Men undergoing radiotherapy for PCa risk complain of chronic fatigue
Wednesday, 10 February 2010- A significantly larger proportion of prostate cancer patients treated with definitive radiotherapy (RT) report chronic fatigue one year after treatment than their radical prostatectomy (RP)-treated...
Edited by: JV
