Gandalf the Grey, the Wizard of Omaha, and Prostate Cancer High-profile celebs and low-risk disease Sep 18, 2019
Consider PSA Before Adding ADT to Salvage Radiation Men with levels below 0.6 ng/mL show no benefit, at risk of other-cause mortality Sep 16, 2019
Mystery! The Vanishing Prostate Tumor Do cancers really disappear spontaneously? Or are they just eluding us? Aug 23, 2019
When Medicare Stops Covering a Test Without Warning Why didn't someone tell me, asks Hans Duvefelt, MD Aug 20, 2019
Newer Prostate Cancer Agents Not Free of Heart Risk Patients with three or more cardiac conditions were at highest risk of early death Aug 14, 2019
Gadzooks! And Egads! Another Dilemma in Prostate Cancer Gadolinium scans present yet another thorny decision for patients on active surveillance Jul 28, 2019
No Cancer Risk Found With TNF Inhibitors in Psoriatic Arthritis Expected cancer cases similar to those in general populace, study shows Jun 13, 2019
Cancer Surgery Refusal Remains a Problem Older, unmarried, African-American patients more likely to say 'no' Jun 04, 2019
Trials Back Earlier Use of Androgen Receptor Inhibitors Improved survival in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer Jun 03, 2019
Add-On Metformin Disappoints in Metastatic CRPC No meaningful clinical benefit when paired with docetaxel-prednisone in castration-resistant prostate cancer Jun 02, 2019
Ultrasound Therapy for Prostate Ca Yields High PSA Response PSA falls by 95%, prostate shrinks by 90% in men with localized prostate cancer May 07, 2019
I Have Cancer. Please Don't Call Me a 'Survivor' No chemo, no radiation, no symptoms, a few biopsies -- hardly the stuff of heroism Apr 15, 2019
Digital Rectal Exams: Worth the Trouble? Howard Wolinsky looks for the evidence, and doesn't find much Mar 29, 2019
Black History Month: Talking With Jennifer Webb, MD How mentorship helped her overcome barriers Feb 28, 2019
Zytiga May Up Mortality Risk in Prostate Cancer Patients With CVD Increased hospitalizations seen among all abiraterone-treated patients Feb 27, 2019
Doubling Down on Antiandrogens Improves PFS in Metastatic Prostate Ca But lack of OS data for enzalutamide-ADT may hold it back Feb 15, 2019 video
Immunotherapy Lurches Forward in Prostate Cancer Combination trials in mCRPC yield responses in immunologically "cold" tumor Feb 15, 2019
Surveillance of Low-Risk Prostate Cancer Tripled Radical prostatectomy gained some ground for high-risk disease Feb 12, 2019 video
Radiological Agent Shows Promise in Heavily Treated mCRPC PSA decline of 50% or greater in two-thirds of patients Feb 12, 2019 video
Better Survival for African-Americans With mCRPC Significant improvement vs whites with androgen-directed agents Feb 11, 2019 video
Rats, My PSA Went Up. Do I Need Another Bleeping Biopsy? "Active surveillance" doesn't have to mean invasive testing for every biomarker blip Jan 29, 2019
MSI Status in Prostate Ca Could ID Immunotherapy Responders But not all MSI-high patients saw benefit with checkpoint inhibitors Dec 27, 2018
YouTube Videos Often Mislead on Prostate Cancer Misinformation, bias, and lack of balance in content Nov 28, 2018
Digital Mammograms Show Vulnerability to Cyberattacks Two out of three radiologists couldn't tell that images were manipulated Nov 28, 2018
No Surgery May Be Feasible in Gleason 9-10 Prostate Ca Study finds similar outcomes with two multimodal approaches Nov 23, 2018
NCRI: Highlights from the Annual Conference Prostate cancer tradeoffs, rising melanoma mortality, safer regimen for thyroid cancer Nov 05, 2018
Black Race Not Associated with Worse Prostate Ca Outcomes Results contrast with past population registry data Oct 24, 2018 video
Nearly 90% Free of Prostate Ca Progression With ADT, Pelvic Node RT Data also showed trend toward reduction in distant metastases Oct 22, 2018
Prostate RT Ups Overall Survival in Metastatic Disease Benefit limited to men with low disease burden Oct 22, 2018
Adding Radium-223 to Abiraterone No Help in Prostate Ca More fractures, deaths in patients with mCRPC and bone mets Oct 20, 2018
SBRT Doubles 5-Year Survival in Oligometastatic Cancers Most patients in phase II trial had up to three metastatic lesions Oct 17, 2018
High Anxiety with Active Surveillance in Prostate Cancer? Not Really In my case, the first week after diagnosis was bad, but that was it Sep 23, 2018
Cancer Linked to Infertility in Men and Women Assisted reproductive technology not to blame, researchers say Jul 03, 2018
Opinions Divided at AMA on Prostate Cancer Screening Resolution referred for further study Jun 13, 2018
Prostate Surgery and Outright Lies What happened to one patient with low-grade cancer pressured into the OR Jun 10, 2018
Upfront MRI Could Rule Out Prostate Ca in Most, Reduce Biopsy Need Less-costly biparametric MRI can spare men from TRUS biopsy Jun 08, 2018
Phototherapy Delays Radical Prostate Cancer Tx Half as many conversions from surveillance at 4 years May 24, 2018
Assay May Help Avoid Needless Prostate Biopsies Distinguishes clinically significant from insignificant/benign disease May 19, 2018
Sorting Out Genomic Tests for Prostate Cancer Discordance between tests, with NCCN risk criteria May 18, 2018
