News and articles

New York Times: Predicting Sex Life After Prostate Cancer  |  Tara Parker-Pope

New York Times: Screening: Increased Risks After Prostate Biopsy  |  Nicholas Bakalar

New York Times: The Side Effects of Prostate Surgery  |  Tara Parker-Pope

Coping Magazine: Life after Prostate Cancer Treatment  |  Steven Lamm, M.D.; Herbert Lepor, M.D.; and Dan Sperling, M.D.

Bloomberg: Accuray Falls on Recall of CyberKnife Radiosurgery System  |  Anna Edney

New England Journal of Medicine: The Index Lesion and the Origin of Prostate Cancer (PDF)  |  Hashim Uddin Ahmed, M.R.C.S., B.M., B.Ch.

MRI Prostate Expert Questions High Treatment Costs  |  Sperling Prostate Center

MRI Prostate Expert Dr. Dan Sperling Is Changing Men’s Health World  |  Sperling Prostate Center

Medscape Medical News: Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer Focuses on Index Lesion (PDF)  |  Zosia Chustecka

Medpage Today: Most Common Treatment for Prostate Cancer Not Best Value (PDF)  |  Crystal Phend; reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, M.D.

Medpage Today: Proton Beam No Better than IMRT for Prostate Cancer (PDF)  |  Crystal Phend; reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, M.D.

Studies and Research papers

Sperling Prostate Center’s clinical research reader on MRI-Guided Prostate Therapies

New research article co-authored by Dr. Sperling reporting on the ability of 3D mpMRI to depict changes in the prostate following focal laser ablation

“MRI-Guided Interventions for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer” clinical research paper (PDF)

New Study on Laser Therapy for Prostate Cancer co-authored by Dr. Sperling

Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer: Revolution or Evolution? (PDF)

Cancer ablation with regional templates applied to prostatectomy specimens from men who were eligible for focal therapy (PDF)

European Association of Eurology: MR-Guided Biopsy of the Prostate: An Overview of Techniques and a Systematic Review (PDF)

Study: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Prostate Biopsy in Men With Repeat Negative Biopsies and Increased Prostate Specific Antigen (PDF)

Science Direct: Simultaneous Segmentation of Prostatic Zones Using Active Appearance Models with Multiple Coupled Levelsets

Science Daily: Possible Explanation for Link Between Exercise, Improved Prostate Cancer Outcomes

Science Daily: Preoperative MRI Assists in Surgical Planning and Helps Spare Erectile Function After Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy

American Journal of Roentgenology: Role of MRI in Minimally Invasive Focal Ablative Therapy for Prostate Cancer

Journal of Cancer: Patients with Localized Prostate Cancer (T1 – T2) Show Improved Overall Long-Term Survival Compared to the Normal Population (PDF)

Korean Journal of Urology: The Clinical Value of Performing an MRI before Prostate Biopsy

Nature Medicine: Copy number analysis indicates monoclonal origin of lethal metastatic prostate cancer (PDF)

Presentations & Lectures

Prostate MR Imaging and Intervention: A Workshop for Physicians and Technologists

Prostate MR Imaging and Intervention: A workshop for Physicians  |  At the New Jersey Institute of Radiology, November 2010