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Robotic surgery may alter radiation planning in prostate cancer therapy

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Thursday, 11 March 2010- Robot-assisted surgery for prostate cancer may require alteration in radiation planning but doesn't preclude sufficient lymph node sampling, according to results of two studies presented at the ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium held in San Francisco, California,...

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Extensive node dissection is underused in high-risk penile cancer

Wednesday, 10 March 2010- Thorough lymph node dissection improves survival in high-risk penile cancer but is vastly underused, according to a study presented at the ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium held in San Francisco, California, USA.

For high-grade tumours, excision of at least eight lymph...

Edited by: JV

Issues and trends at International Bladder Cancer Symposium in Amsterdam

Tuesday, 9 March 2010- Leading experts from Europe, North America and other parts of the world will lecture and discuss the latest developments in research, diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer during the "International Symposium: State-of-the-Art in Bladder Cancer" scheduled on...

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BENEFIT: belatacept preserves kidneys, avoids toxicity

Monday, 8 March 2010- The experimental drug belatacept can prevent graft rejection in kidney transplant recipients while better preserving kidney function when compared with standard immunosuppressive drugs, data from two international phase III clinical trials show.

The results are published in...

Circulating endothelial cells and progenitors: potential RCC biomarkers

Friday, 5 March 2010-  A group of Australian researchers compared the levels of circulating endothelial cells (CECs) and progenitors (CEPs) between tumour-bearing mice and healthy controls, in human renal cell carcinoma (RCC) xenograft models.

B. Namdarian and colleagues said they also aimed...

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Drinking alcohol raises PCa risk in African-Americans

Wednesday, 10 March 2010- Alcohol consumption may be associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer in African-American men, according to researchers.

A team led by Lionel L. Bañez, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., prospectively collected...

Death after prostatectomy seldom due to prostate cancer

Tuesday, 9 March 2010- Cumulative mortality from prostate cancer 15 years after radical prostatectomy is six times lower than death from other causes, according to study findings presented at the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. Among men older than 65 years at the time of surgery, cumulative...

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Most skeletal-related events due to bony metastases

Tuesday, 8 March 2010- Skeletal-related events (SREs) in patients with metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer (mHRPC) are mostly due to bony metastatic disease and not decreased bone mineral density (BMD), according to British researchers.

A study by Dr. Nicholas D. James, of The University...

Role of mechanical simulators for training of laparoscopic surgery

Friday, 19 February 2010- Low fidelity simulators will play an important role in the future with regards to laparoscopic surgical training in urology, according to Prof. Jens Rassweiler (Heilbronn, Germany), director of the hands-on training in laparoscopy offered during the recently concluded 19th...

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7th ESOU Meeting in Vienna to tackle emerging treatment options

Friday, 8 January 2010- Emerging treatment options that impact on the diagnosis of uro-genital cancers will be examined at the annual meeting of the EAU Section of Oncological Urology (ESOU) to be held in Vienna, Austria from January 15 to 17, 2010.

Prof. Bob Djavan, chairman of the 7th ESOU...

2nd EMUC to reach new heights of international cooperation

Thursday, 26 November 2009- Experts agree that the urological cancer patient will benefit greatly if the delivered treatment is a result of a combined effort. Collaboration of experts from various fields is, therefore, necessary to take cancer-related research and medical practice to the next...

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