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Reoperation 10 years after surgically managed pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence

Authors: Denman et al.

Saturday, 17 May 2008 - Denman et al. (2008) measured the 10-year risk of reoperation for surgically treated pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence (POPUI) in a community population.

The authors conducted a prospective cohort analysis of 374 women who were > 20 years old and who underwent surgery for POPUI...

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Diagnosis and treatment of female sexual dysfunction

Saturday, 17 May 2008 - In a recent paper, Frank et al. (2008) discussed diagnosis and treatment of female sexual dysfunction. Female sexual complaints are common, occurring in approximately 40 percent of women. Decreased desire is the most common complaint. Normal versus abnormal sexual functioning in women is poorly...

Authors: Frank et al.

Prostate-specific antigen and prostate cancer: prediction, detection and monitoring

Saturday, 17 May 2008 - In a review, Lilja et al. (2008) examined current evidence for the association between prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and prostate cancer risk, disease outcome and recurrence. The authors also described the use of PSA testing for long-term prediction of prostate cancer and the use of PSA...

Authors: Lilja et al.

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Sex hormone-binding globulin to predict extraprostatic tumor extension of prostate cancer patients

Friday, 16 May 2008 - Lee et al. (Lee et al., 2008) investigated the relationships of serum sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) level with known prognostic factors for prostate cancer in men who received radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) for clinically localized prostate cancer.

Preoperative serum levels of SHBG...

Genomic DNA hypomethylation as a biomarker for bladder cancer

Friday, 16 May 2008 - DNA hypomethylation has been suggested to cause genomic instability and increase cancer risk. Moore et al. (2008) tested the hypothesis that DNA hypomethylation is associated with increased risk of bladder cancer.

The authors measured cytosine methylation (5-mC) content in genomic DNA from blood...

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Association of prostate cancer with body size in childhood and young adulthood

Thursday, 15 May 2008 - Body size relatively early in life may influence men's later rate of prostate cancer. Robinson et al. (2008) searched for published, English-language studies of the association between prostate cancer incidence or mortality and body size between ages 5 and 29 years.

The authors summarized...

Changes in muscle, fat and bone mass after androgen blockade for prostate cancer

Wednesday, 14 May 2008 - Galvao et al. (2008) assessed the effects of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) on whole-body and regional muscle, fat and bone mass in men with prostate cancer without metastatic bone disease.

Seventy-two men aged 44-88 years underwent spine, hip and whole-body dual-energy X-ray...

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Radical prostatectomy versus radiation therapy in men with T3 prostate cancer

Tuesday, 13 May 2008 - At the 23rd EAU annual congress held in Milan, March 2008, Djavan et al. presented oncological outcomes of radical prostatectomy and radiation therapy in men with cT3 prostate cancer and to analyse independent factors allowing an accurate patient selection.

Between 1993 and 2006 a total of 695...

Case Discussions on Renal Cell Cancer: timing of treatment, Last Part

Friday, 9 May 2008 - At the 23rd Annual EAU Congress held in Milan, Italy, Prof. Axel Heidenreich (Cologne, Germany) chaired the case discussions on the timing of treatment for renal cancer and noted that nowadays there is a wide range of treatment options for managing the disease including active surveillance,...

Urology Week 2008: attention for urological conditions

Tuesday, 22 April 2008 - Every year 225,000 new cases of prostate cancer are detected in Europe alone. At least 1 in 10 people age 65 or older suffers from urinary incontinence, the involuntary loss of urine. And epidemiologic data indicate that erectile dysfunction (ED) is a significant problem among men worldwide....

3rd Masterclass on medical treatment for urological cancer

Tuesday, 15 April 2008 - The masterclass is a prime venue to scrutinise current practices and survey the latest therapies that are still being tried or tested in various medical disciplines involved in cancer therapy.There was a need to open the masterclass to other specialists, such as our colleagues from medical...