Month: February 2015

• February 22, 2015
• Active Surveillance

The Impact of the Recommendation Against PSA Screening

In 2012, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued a recommendation against routine PSA screening for otherwise healthy men. Almost immediately, prostate cancer support organizations and hundreds of clinical professionals raised an outcry. While acknowledging that the non-prostate cancer specific blood test often led to over-detection and over-treatment of indolent prostate cancer, countless lives keep reading

• February 11, 2015
• Imaging & mpMRI

Let’s Speak the Same MRI Diagnostic Language

A man who is suspected of having prostate cancer, or whose cancer has been biopsy confirmed, can develop the best right treatment plan if he also has a multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) of the prostate. When his own doctor sends him to an imaging center, his scan is “read” by the center’s radiologist who writes a keep reading

• February 5, 2015
• General Prostate

MRI Before TRUS Re-Biopsy Increases Accuracy

It seems intuitive, if not obvious, that superior imaging of the prostate gives precise information to guide a biopsy needle into a cancerous tumor. The typical ultrasound imaging used by urologists in their offices is inferior to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Ultrasound-guided transrectal (TRUS) biopsy has a minimum 35% chance of missing cancer. If our keep reading

• February 1, 2015
• General Prostate

Would You Change Your Diet to Prevent PCa?

Do you know what causes cancer? Do you believe that diet can affect your chances of either causing or preventing prostate cancer? Would you change what you eat if you thought it could make a positive difference? I ran across an interesting small study that grew out of a larger British program called the ProDiet keep reading