Tag: active surveillance

• 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

• December 25, 2014
• Imaging & mpMRI

From the RSNA: Poster on mpMRI and False Positive PCa

In case you missed my previous blog, I attended the Radiological Society of North American (RSNA) meeting in Chicago. Several poster presentations were devoted to multiparametric MRI of the prostate. In my last blog, I summarized a poster on mpMRI and imaging of the anterior zone of the prostate. This time, I’m reporting on another keep reading