Diagnostic Center for Disease: Robotic Prostatectomy - A Race to Failure?
SARASOTA, Fla., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement was issued today by Diagnostic Center for Disease -- "There is currently no convincing evidence that early screening, detection, and treatment improve mortality. Limitations in prostate cancer screening include po...Preoperative MR may assist surgeons in nerve sparing during robotic prostatectomy
Preoperative MR can help surgeons limit nerve damage while performing a robotic assisted laparascopic prostatectomy (RALP)saving some men from becoming impotent, according to a study performed at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Preoperative MR was used to evaluate 38 neurovascul...SPCG-4 trial: Update on watchful waiting versus radical prostatectomy
Stockholm, 20 March - In 2005, the Scandinavian Prostate Cancer Group Study 4 (SPCG-4) reported that radical prostatectomy improved prostate cancer survival compared with watchful waiting after a median of 8.2 years of follow-up. At the 24th Annual EAU Congress in Stockholm, Sweden the results aft...Quick, Innovative Procedure Helps Men Minimize Incontinence After Prostatectomy
Thousands of men facing surgical removal of the prostate due to cancer may someday have one less thing to worry about: post-surgical urinary incontinence. That's because a team of expert urologic surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center has devised a simple, e...Innovative Procedure Helps Men Minimize Incontinence After Prostatectomy
Those men who are facing the surgical removal of the prostate due to cancer may hope that a day will come when they need not worry about the post-surgical urinary incontinence. That's because a team of expert urologic surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center h...Men Who Have Prostate Cancer Surgery Do Well
... of whether a man should have that operation, another treatment or just watchful waiting. The study of almost 13,000 American men who had a radical prostatectomy -- surgical removal of a cancerous prostate gland -- between 1987 and 2005 found that only 12 percent of them died of the cancer, according to the rep...Misonix Announces Participation in 2nd International Workshop on Focal Therapy
...nue to be active surveillance or prostatectomy," said Michael A. McManus, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of Misonix. "Radical therapy like prostatectomy is often associated with reductions in quality of life due to associated incontinence, impotence, or rectal problems. Visually Directed(TM) HIFU with...Dad Offers Personal Father's Day Message on Importance of Prostate Cancer Screenings
...ted radiation therapy, Brachytherapy and Cryotherapy. After being presented with his treatment options, Stern decided to undergo da Vinci robotic prostatectomy . "For many patients, these advanced treatments offer benefits like greater precision, less discomfort, faster recovery and fewer side effects,&q...Prostate cancer test improves prediction of disease course
...t has been independently validated in three studies as being accurate and consistent in predicting pathological and biochemical outcomes after radical prostatectomy (surgery to remove the prostate gland). The UCSF study was intended to measure the accuracy of CAPRA for its ability to predict metastasis or morta...Cancer Diagnosis May Tax Physical, Mental Health
...n the same issue, John L. Gore, of the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues found that urinary incontinence was more common after prostatectomy than after brachytherapy or external beam radiation therapy. Sexual dysfunction "profoundly" affected all treatment groups in the four years after ...Investigational Genetic Test May Help Address Common Problems in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
...Antigen." Felix K h Chun, et al. (3) AUA poster #155, "PCA3 score-based nomogram to predict low-volume / low-grade prostate cancer in radical prostatectomy specimens." John Ward, et al. (4) AUA poster #1814, "Feasibility of the PCA3 urine test in a community- based screening setting." Adrie ...New Body of Research Suggests Statin Use Benefits Multiple Areas of Urologic Health
...ent of prostate cancer. Abstract 575: Association between statins, obesity and prostate tumor inflammatory infiltrate in men undergoing radical prostatectomy Statin use was associated with a significant 72 percent reduction in the risk for inflammation within the prostate tumor. Obesity may be associated...Research Explains How Advanced Prostate Cancer Becomes Resistant to Androgen-Deprivation Therapy
... programs in the nation. For control purposes, the researchers also examined benign and cancerous prostate tissue from eight men who underwent radical prostatectomy for early-stage, localized prostate cancer, and prostate tissue from two men whose prostates were removed for reasons unrelated to prostate cancer. ...Agent Orange exposure increases veterans' risk of aggressive recurrence of prostate cancer
...Agent Orange are at increased risk of aggressive recurrence of prostate cancer, researchers report. A study of 1,495 veterans who underwent radical prostatectomy to remove their cancerous prostates showed that the 206 exposed to Agent Orange had nearly a 50 percent increased risk of their cancer recurring despi...Urologists identify 7 biomarkers that may help pinpoint prostate cancer recurrence
...ting methods, Dr. Shariat and his team measured the levels of seven biomarkers in 423 patients who were subsequently surgically treated with a radical prostatectomy and bilateral lymphadenectomy. Of the study participants, 75 had a recurrence of their cancer. All 75 had elevated levels of at least several of t...Gene therapy delivery of nerve growth factors reverses erectile dysfunction in animal model
...rve that results from surgery for prostate cancer. Even if a patient receives a nerve-sparing procedure during surgery, recovery from ED after radical prostatectomy may take a long time. In this study, which was led by Joseph C. Glorioso, III, Ph.D., chair of the department of biochemistry and molecular gene...Stress may help cancer cells resist treatment, research shows
...k of prostate cancer," said Kulik. "These drugs block the effects of epinephrine, which could explain the finding. Another study of men after radical prostatectomy reported increased mood disturbances, which are often associated with elevated stress hormones. Although these studies do not directly address the rol...Older men treated for early prostate cancer live longer than those who are not
...te cancer. Studies have shown that the slow-developing nature of prostate cancer during its earliest stages makes treatment options, such as a radical prostatectomy (surgical removal of the prostate) and radiation therapy, controversial with unpredictable outcomes. Often, recently diagnosed men of this group were ...Gene therapy study takes aim at prostate cancer
...General Hospital, The Methodist Hospital and Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center. "We are treating patients who are scheduled for a prostatectomy (prostate removal) but who also have a high risk that their disease will recur (or come back)," said Kadmon. "The operation itself is highly successfu...AIDS-related cognitive impairment exists in two separate forms
...dependent Predictor of Prostate Cancer Prognosis in a Cohort of 605 Radical prostatectomy Patients: Abstract No. LB-226 Researchers have found that a test checki...al for submission to the FDA. She also added that while this study analyzed prostatectomy samples, Epigenomics is expanding its research to see if the same results c...Markers of gene, protein, or micro-RNA activity predict outcome in prostate and colorectal cancers
...dependent Predictor of Prostate Cancer Prognosis in a Cohort of 605 Radical prostatectomy Patients: Abstract No. LB-226 Researchers have found that a test checki...al for submission to the FDA. She also added that while this study analyzed prostatectomy samples, Epigenomics is expanding its research to see if the same results c...Scientists learn to predict protein-stabilizing ability of small molecules
...of the most innovative of these treatments is robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (removal of the prostate). The University of Pennsylvania Health System is ...on. “Perhaps two of the most-feared possible long-term effects of a radical prostatectomy are erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence,?says Dr. Lee. “My specia...Penn Surgeons Use Completely Robotic Surgery to Successfully Treat Prostate Cancer
...of the most innovative of these treatments is robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (removal of the prostate). The University of Pennsylvania Health System is ...on. “Perhaps two of the most-feared possible long-term effects of a radical prostatectomy are erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence,?says Dr. Lee. “My specia...New Report Just Published: World Prostate Cancer Therapeutics Market Report
...rethral Resection of the Prostate (TURP) II-41 prostatectomy and Lymph Node Dissection II-42 Radical prostatectomy II-42 Cryosurgery II-43 Advantages of Cryo...c Drugs in Europe II-67 Robot-Assisted Radical prostatectomy for Treatment of Prostate Cancer II-67 7....Oncolytics Biotech(R) Inc. Announces Reovirus Research to be Presented at AACR Annual Meeting
...rior to prostatectomy. Six prostate cancer patients with cancer confined to the prostate gland received a single injection of REOLYSIN(R), followed by prostatectomy several weeks later. Intralesional reovirus injections resulted in minimal side effects, and evidence of anti-tumour activity. There was no evidence o...Cardium's InnerCool Announces New Tissue-Specific UroCool(TM) System for Use in Prostate Surgeries
...y in the rapidly expanding use of robotic-assisted prostatectomy systems such as the da Vinci(R) system, which is a...cooling techniques during robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy surgery indicate that cooling resulted in a statis... and Finley's clinical data on hypothermic radical prostatectomy was recently presented with an award at the Europe...Gen-Probe Reports Strong Financial Results for First Quarter 2008, Raises Full-Year Guidance
...-1810, May 2008), researchers from the MD Anderson Cancer Center and Gen-Probe conclude that PCA3 scores correlate with both tumor volumes and prostatectomy Gleason scores, both of which are measures of prostate cancer aggressiveness. As a result, they suggest that PCA3 may have clinical applicabi...