Which of the following statements is not true: Prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening cannot reduce the prostate cancer death rate Surgery or radiotherapy is not necessarily better than any other therapeutic options for prostate cancer Chemotherapy should not be considered in treating prostate cancer Better biomarkers are necessary for improved prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment Visit UroSource.comand give your opinion! High-dose-rate afterloading brachytherapy as PCA monotherapy treatment Oncologic outcomes for patients with positive surgical margins at partial nephrectomy Bacterium Oxalobacter formigenes as a probiotic to break down calcium-oxalate kidney stones Development of Quality Indicators for the Antibiotic Treatment of Complicated Urinary Tract Infections Outcome measures after tension-free vaginal tape for mixed urinary incontinence
High-dose-rate afterloading brachytherapy as PCA monotherapy treatment In a Phase II dose escalation study, Corner et al. (2008) evaluated high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDRBT) monotherapy for prostate cancer. The study included 110 patients with locally advanced cancer. Three dose levels have been used; 34 Gy in 4 fractions, 36 Gy in 4 fractions, and 31.5 Gy in 3 fractions. These equate to 226Gy (1.5,) 252Gy(1.5), and 252Gy(1.5), respectively. Thirty patients have received 34 Gy, 25 received 36 Gy, and 55 patients received 31.5 Gy. Acute and late toxicity was analyzed using the International Prostate Symptom Score, and urologic and rectal events were scored using the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group/Common Terminology Criteria scoring systems. Read more... Oncologic outcomes for patients with positive surgical margins at partial nephrectomy Dr. R. Houston Thompson, et al., presented their study ‘Oncologic outcomes for patients with positive surgical margins at partial nephrectomy,’ at the First Genitourinary Cancers Sumposium held under the auspices of the American Society of Clinical Onocology in San Francisco, USA. Read more... Bacterium Oxalobacter formigenes as a probiotic to break down calcium-oxalate kidney stones Kidney stones can cause severe pain. Treating patients or preventing stone formation with bacteria may be an effective way of reducing their risk of repeatedly developing painful kidney stones, a study by Kaufman et al. (2008) suggested. immunoprophylaxis and ablative therapy for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, would be more effective than BCG alone. Read more... Development of Quality Indicators for the Antibiotic Treatment of Complicated Urinary Tract Infections Appropriateness of antibiotic treatment of urinary tract infection (UTI) is important. Hermanides et al. (2008) developed a set of valid, reliable, and applicable indicators to assess the quality of antibiotic use in the treatment of hospitalized patients with complicated UTI. Read more... Outcome measures after tension-free vaginal tape for mixed urinary incontinence Sinha et al. (2008) assessed the outcome of tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) in the treatment of mixed incontinence using the Medical Epidemiologic and Social Aspects of Ageing (MESA) questionnaire and other outcome measures used by the British Society of Urogynaecology (BSUG) database. Forty women undergoing TVT completed a MESA questionnaire pre-operatively and at 6 months post-operatively. Information was also obtained about three outcome measures of the BSUG database-patients' global impression of outcome and stress and urge symptom analyses. Stress and urge incontinences were either cured or improved in 78 and 75 % of women, respectively, after TVT. Read more...
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