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What’s Most Important in Choosing a Prostate Cancer Treatment?

If you wanted to know what men look for in choosing a new car, it seems obvious that function would be a top priority. They want reliable transportation. After that, what matters will vary from one man to another. Budget, of course, will be a consideration. Next, choices depend on things like repair record, safety, keep reading

3 Inner Struggles During Active Surveillance

Emotional Struggles of Active Surveillance

Question: What goes up and hasn’t come down? Answer: The use of Active Surveillance in the U.S. A February, 2019 study[i] examined U.S. management trends for low-risk prostate cancer since 2010. Prior to that, the standard of care for low-to-intermediate risk PCa was an “elephant gun” approach aimed at eradicating PCa by obliterating the gland. keep reading

How to Increase the Odds for Successful Active Surveillance

Let’s start with a short quiz: What is the current preferred strategy to manage low-risk prostate cancer? a) Nerve-sparing robotic prostatectomy b) Focal treatment c) Active Surveillance d) Vitamin E, saw palmetto supplements, and avoid red meat If you answered “c) Active Surveillance,” you are correct. According to a 2017 joint guideline statement from four keep reading

Agreeing on Active Surveillance Terminology

Medical language is filled with technical terms that are virtually incomprehensible for many patients because in many cases they have Latin or Greek roots. Even when doctors are speaking English, however, they aren’t all using the same terms for the same thing. Take, for example, the expression Active Surveillance (AS). AS is often understood by keep reading

Why Choose the Sperling Prostate Center for Active Surveillance?

With Active Surveillance on the rise, one would think that doctors who support AS for their prostate cancer patients have similar commitment and protocols. A new study (Sep. 2016) in the British Journal of Urology International (BJUI) spells out 8 areas of qualitative differences among AS doctors: physician comfort with active surveillance protocol selection beliefs keep reading

MRI Outperforms PHI for Patients Considering Active Surveillance

When it comes to Active Surveillance (AS) decisions, there’s good news and bad news. The good news: based on biopsy results, more doctors are recommending AS for prostate cancer (PCa) patients with insignificant disease. The bad news: the biopsy might have missed significant PCa so the patient can’t know for sure if AS is a keep reading

Multiparametric MRI Shows Safety of Testosterone Replacement During Active Surveillance

Testosterone has important benefits for men. When it’s at a normal level, it helps develop muscle mass, decrease fat, avoid depression, keep bones strong, maintain libido, improve erections, and may help reduce risks of cardiovascular and cognitive disease. However, about 40% of men over the age of 45 have symptoms of reduced blood levels of keep reading

Uncertainty and Anxiety during Active Surveillance

The word is out: Patients with early stage, low risk prostate cancer have often been rushed into radical prostatectomy when many of them could have afforded to wait to seek treatment—possibly for years. Untold numbers of men were left with urinary and sexual problems that lasted for months, or were never fully resolved. For low keep reading

Active Surveillance and Testosterone Replacement Therapy

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. – Bertrand Russell What man over the age of, say, 45 doesn’t look back—perhaps nostalgically—on the lusty days of yore? Somewhere between the ages of eighteen to thirty, men reach a sexual peak in which desire keep reading

Active Surveillance: Things You Might Not Have Thought About

The number of prostate cancer patients who opt for active surveillance (AS) is rising. The most important reason men go on AS is to avoid the risks that accompany whole-gland treatments. In fact, it’s so important to patients that according to a Dutch study, 30% who were not considered candidates for AS chose it anyway keep reading

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