key articles
Laparoscopic port-site metastasis in urologic surgery
Tuesday, 5 August 2008 - Port-site metastasis has been an increasing concern with the spread of laparoscopy in managing urologic malignancies. Eng et al. (2008) reviewed port-site metastases reported in the urologic oncology...
Authors: Eng et al.
Impact of obesity on clinicopathologic outcomes after robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy
Tuesday, 5 August 2008 - Boorjian et al. (2008) investigated the impact of body mass index (BMI) on pathologic and functional outcomes after robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP).
The authors evaluated 400 consecutive...
Authors: Boorjian et al.
A new fiducial marker for image guided radio therapy of prostate cancer
Monday, 4 August 2008 - A new fiducial marker for image guided radiotherapy (IGRT) based on a removable prostate stent made of Ni Ti has been developed during two previous clinical feasibility studies. Carl et al. (2008)...
Authors: Carl et al.
Effect of serial prostate-specific antigen screening and its velocity on prostate cancer specific mortality
Monday, 4 August 2008 - A prostate-specific antigen (PSA) velocity (PSAV) > 2 ng/mL during the year before diagnosis has been associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer-specific mortality (PCSM) after radical...
Authors: Martin et al.
Informed decision-making for prostate-specific antigen screening
Monday, 4 August 2008 - Most medical associations recommend that patients make informed decisions about whether to be screened for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. Studies assessing how to...
Authors: Driscoll et al.
Doubling time versus velocity of prostate specific antigen to predict high-risk prostate cancer
Sunday, 3 August 2008 - Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) velocity (PSAV) is associated with the presence of life-threatening prostate cancer. Less is known about the relative utility of pretreatment PSA doubling time (PSA DT) to...
Authors: Loeb et al.
Radical prostatectomy for low risk carcinoma of the prostate
Sunday, 3 August 2008 - Smith Jr. (2008) reviewed the role of radical prostatectomy in the management of patients with low risk carcinoma of the prostate.
A summary of personal experience and pertinent literature is provided. In...
Authors: Smith
Body mass index trends and role of obesity in predicting outcome after radical prostatectomy
Friday, 1 August 2008 - One in three American men is obese (body mass index [BMI] >/=30 kg/m2); however, the relationship between obesity and prostate cancer is highly debated. Motamedinia et al. (2008)examined BMI trends in...
Authors: Motamedinia et al.
Partial salvage cryoablation of the prostate for recurrent prostate cancer after padiotherapy failure
Thursday, 31 July 2008 - Eisenberg and Shinohara (2008) determined the efficacy of partial cryoablation of the prostate in the salvage setting.
All patients who were treated between April 2004 and September 2007 for recurrent...
Authors: Eisenberg et al.
Clinical events in prostate cancer lifestyle trial: results from two years of follow-up
Thursday, 31 July 2008 - Previous research has demonstrated that patients with prostate cancer participating in the Prostate Cancer Lifestyle Trial had a reduction in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, inhibition of LNCaP...
Authors: Frattaroli et al.
