Category: Prostate Cancer Treatment

The title may sound like a trick question. You probably thought, “Of COURSE it matters! Why wouldn’t it?” Well, a newly published British study suggests the choice of treatment does not make a difference in mortality rates. The research by Hamdy, et al. (2023) compares long-term mortality rates of radical prostatectomy (RP), radiation, and Active keep reading

Before you read any further, stop and ask yourself, “How many choices have I made so far today?” I bet, from the time you got out of bed, you can easily name 25, including things like what you ate for breakfast, what you decided to wear today, what to listen to in the car, whether keep reading

Aggressive prostate cancer (PCa) comes with higher chances for recurrence—and often there’s no way to know if the PCa has started to spread at the time of treatment. It’s like a time bomb with an unanswered question: has the clock been activated? Therefore, today’s clinical standard of care treats it as if the clock is keep reading

Times change, but old myths die hard. Especially in medical practice, old beliefs have a way of hanging around. They can still influence decision-making. However, we should be wary of throwing out the baby with the bath. Just because newer treatments have emerged and become established, it doesn’t mean there’s no longer a place for keep reading

Immunotherapy is a promising new direction in treating cancer. For instance, a clinical study of advanced rectal cancer found that an immunotherapy using monoclonal antibodies to stimulate a strong immune response showed complete effectiveness at one year. All patients in the study had no evidence of cancer at that time. This is especially remarkable since keep reading

The word cure seems to be disappearing from talk about cancer. These days, doctors are more likely to talk about cancer control, rather than cure. This is partly because cancers that used to be a death sentence are now seen as a chronic disease that patients can live with for years, thanks to recent target keep reading

Movies about international spy rings gain popularity as thrillers because they keep audiences in suspense over the identity of the true good guys and bad guys. No one would waste their time and money to see a film in which the villains wore large neon badges saying “I am a SPY!” Within the first 15 minutes... keep reading

What do these terms have in common? ✓ Sexual adjustment ✓ Masculine self-esteem ✓ Unmet sexual supportive care needs Chances are, prostate cancer (PCa) patients treated with radical prostatectomy (RP) will discover that those terms, and others, commonly apply after their surgery. For some, such challenges are resolved within 6-12 months after treatment. For others, keep reading

Once upon a fairly recent time, radical prostatectomy (RP) was the treatment of choice for prostate cancer (PCa), even for high risk disease. There were two main reasons for this: It was believed that PCa was a multifocal disease scattered throughout the gland, even if too small to be picked up by biopsy. Therefore, aggressively keep reading

I am frequently asked by patients how Focal Laser Ablation (FLA) compares to Radical Prostatectomy (RP) in terms of cancer control. After all, many of the men with localized prostate cancer (PCa) who come to Sperling Prostate Center have already been told by a urologist that they qualify for a nerve-sparing robotic RP that will keep reading