According to a recent survey conducted by the Prostate Cancer Charity organisation, men with prostate cancer are not receiving the same level of care as for other cancers and as the level of care for women although it is not fully understood why.
One of the possible reasons is thought to be a lack of clear [...]
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Although the survival rate of five years for men with prostate cancer has increased from 67% in the 1970s to 90% in recent years, prostate cancer is still the United State’s most common cancer, aside from skin cancer, and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in men.
The primary method of management for this disease [...]
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Prostate cancer can spread throughout the body through different means, but it tends to spread to bones rather than to other organs.
Metastases means cancer spread, and with prostate cancer these can occur when the tumour is small.
To determine whether the cancer has become an advanced metastatic cancer, a bone scan is used.
If it is found [...]
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Since in US, more than 200,000 new cases of prostate cancer are discovered every year a more effective treatment was desperately needed.
At the prostate cancer symposium in Orlando, co-sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Eric J. Small, MD, UCSF professor of medicine and urology
presented the findings of the study he led helped by [...]
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A major study of patient satisfaction and regret following open prostatectomy and robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy provides some important lessons for surgeons …
… and opens up the debate about alternative prostate cancer care
The research, recently published in the European Journal of Urology, shows 19 per cent of patients regretted their treatment choice and patients [...]
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