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For men with unfavorable-risk prostate cancer

Radiation Tx Impact Varies With Comorbidity in Prostate Cancer

Reduction in overall, cardiac mortality for RT alone in men with severe or moderate comorbidity
Electronic health record-based triggers may cut time to diagnostic evaluation of colorectal and prostate cancer

EHR Triggers Cut Time to Diagnostic Cancer Evaluation

Findings among veterans flagged for delayed diagnosis of prostate, colorectal cancer
For patients with biochemically recurrent prostate cancer

Mushroom Powder Shows Potential in Prostate Cancer

Reduction in prostate-specific antigen level in some patients with biochemical recurrence
Chemotherapy at the start of androgen-deprivation therapy can extend the lives of men with metastatic prostate cancer

New Rx Strategy May Up Survival in Advanced Prostate Cancer

Adding chemotherapy to hormone therapy added 14 months to patients' lives in study
For patients undergoing transrectal prostate biopsy

Targeted Prophylaxis Effective in Post-Prostate Biopsy Sepsis

Targeted prophylaxis similarly effective to empirical prophylaxis after transrectal prostate biopsy
For men with prostate cancer

Prostate Cancer Interacts With Comorbidity to Increase VTE Rate

Increased VTE risk among older patients, those with metastases, those who underwent surgery
Many clinically low-risk prostate cancer patients are upgraded at prostatectomy

Many Low-Risk Prostate Cancer Cases Upgraded at Prostatectomy

Upgrading, up staging linked to age >60, PSA >5.0 ng/ml, and >25 percent positive cores
Higher doses of radiation may improve survival in men with intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancers

More Radiation Doesn’t Up Survival in Low-Risk Prostate CA

But higher doses may improve survival in men with intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancers
More U.S. physicians are sparing their low-risk prostate cancer patients from prostatectomy

Surveillance Becoming More Common for Prostate Cancer

Many men with low-risk disease being spared prostatectomy, radiation, androgen deprivation tx
A majority of U.S. men with low-risk prostate cancer who are eligible for active surveillance still undergo treatment

Too Few Prostate Cancer Patients Receiving Active Surveillance

Researchers find 12 percent or fewer U.S. men with low-risk prostate cancer getting active surveillance