Category: Prostate Cancer

Making decisions is a part of life. Each day you face countless situations calling for conscious choice. Some are minor: what to have for breakfast, should you carry an umbrella, how you’ll use your time if a meeting is canceled. Others are major: buying a new home, making a career change, moving an aging parent keep reading

As far as we know, no one has yet come up with a better mousetrap. This is also true of screening tests for prostate cancer (PCa). As everyone knows, the current PSA (prostate specific antigen) blood test is not specific for PCa. It only registers increased activity/irritation of the gland. Yes, it could mean cancer, keep reading

Reviews and ratings are very important in today’s world. Look at the internet. Whether it’s Yelp, Amazon, Ebay, Angie’s List or hundreds more, the number of stars or thumbs up are not as influential as the qualitative comments left by consumers. In similar fashion, radical prostatectomy is... keep reading

Let’s say a real estate investor buys a dilapidated house, intending to tear it down and develop the property with a larger, up-to-date home. Since the house will be demolished, the investor decides to skip going through the rooms for an on-site inspection. If any furnishings were left behind, when the bulldozers come to do keep reading

According to Swedish and Dutch experts, there’s often a bias problem in Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs designed to grade prostate cancer (PCa) aggressiveness. That is, those who develop algorithms that are trained on a particular set of data are also the people who evaluate their accuracy. Where’s the objectivity in that method? There’s a risk keep reading

A cancer diagnosis can be life changing. Physical, emotional, mental, and social challenges arise when a life-threatening disease like cancer occurs. Even low-risk, early-stage prostate cancer (PCa) has implications that ripple throughout all levels of a man’s awareness. During the days, weeks and months of their PCa journey, patients often examine their lifestyle choices. Have keep reading

How often do you think about your prostate gland? Hopefully, at least once a year, when you schedule an annual exam. That exam should include a PSA blood test and a digital rectal exam (DRE). Other than that, chances are that you go through every day without once thinking about that small gland tucked away keep reading

Prostate cancer is a woman’s problem. What? How can that be, since women are not born with a prostate gland. At least, not the way men are. Women do, in fact, have two small tissue structures called Skene’s glands, positioned on either side of the urethra close to where urine exits the body. Scientists liken 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

It is always thrilling when a treatment is working so well in a clinical trial that the study ends early and the FDA moves rapidly with approval. This was the case with a clinical study called ALSYMPCA (Alpharadin in Symptomatic Prostate Cancer Patients). keep reading