Prostate Cancer News 2015-11-01

Prostate Cancer News - 2015-11-01

General Case Management

·         Inferior Care, Higher Costs More Likely in Black Men With Prostate Cancer - Cancer Therapy Advisor

·         NCRI cancer conference day 1: prostate cancer drugs and early diagnosis - Cancer Research UK - Science blog

·         Prostate Cancer | Cancer Network

·         Prostate cancer incidence and mortality among men of East Asian ethnicity | THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK

·         Prostate cancer plummets: Incidence and mortality rates in free fall | Managed Care Magazine Online 

·         Prostate cancer soaring among Czech men | Prague Monitor

·         Urologic care at the Phoenix VA Medical Center — it’s not been good! | THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK

Choices you Make

·         “Our study confirmed our suspicion” that “these pills were junk.” | THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK

·         Men's Health Supplements Useless in Prostate Cancer Patients

·         Processed meat and cancer – what you need to know - Cancer Research UK - Science blog 

·         Report: Processed Meat and Red Meat Can Cause Cancer | Chicago Tonight | WTTW

Screening and Diagnosis

·         USPSTF to re-assess harms and benefits of PSA-based screening for risk of prostate cancer | THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK

Biopsies, Genomics and Pathology

·         Health Beat: Prostate cancer: Fusion biopsy | Health Beat - Home

·         New genetic discovery advances understanding of prostate cancer | EurekAlert! Science News

·         New Technology Better Detects Prostate Cancer - Story

·         Prostate Tumors Reprogram, Instead of Rewrite, DNA Code to Form Tumors - ONA

·         Real Time MRI-Guided Prostate Cancer Biopsy Proves More Accurate -- BOCA RATON, Fla., Oct. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

·         Revolutionary prostate biopsy approach more accurate at diagnosing prostate cancer

·         Scientists show how frequently mutated prostate cancer gene suppresses tumors

Tests

·         First Lab-in-a-Briefcase to Detect Cancer

·         PSA Tests Cut Metastatic Prostate Cancer Rate by 50%

·         Study Finds Metamark's Prostate Cancer Test Offers Benefits Beyond Current Standards of Care | GenomeWeb

Imaging

·         Minomic: Agreement to Begin First-In-Human Trial of Novel Prostate Cancer Imaging Agent | Business Wire

·         The role of CT scanning in assessment of progression of men with CRPC | THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK

·         The utility and value of new imaging techniques in advanced prostate cancer | THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK

Treatment

Surgery

·         Along with robotic surgery come … 3D printed prostate models? | THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK

Radiation

·         First Results of Prostate Cancer Study with New Targeted Radiation Treatment CivaString® Presented at ASTRO 2015 | Business Wire

·         Hypofractionation is non-inferior to conventional fractionation (redux) | THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK

Hormone

·         24 months of ATT improves survival for men with cancer recurrence after prostatectomy - Medical News Today

·         CADT and IADT in the management of progressive and advanced prostate cancer

Chemo

·         Landmark clinical trial shows gene-targeted drug can treat prostate cancer - Medical News Today

·         Prostate cancer drug olaparib targets specific genetic mutations (Wired UK)

New Techniques

·         Cryotherapy in the treatment of high-risk, localized prostate cancer | THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK

·         FDA Gives Green Light to Focused Ultrasound for Ablation of Prostate Cancer - Cancer Therapy Advisor

Side Effects

·         Prostate Surgery Complications: What Patients Should Know | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

·         Testosterone replacement therapy after radiation therapy | THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK

·         When treatment is only half the battle; life after prostate cancer

Advanced/Recurrence

·         Metastatic Prostate Tumors Harbor Stem Cell-Like Gene Signatures | OncoTherapy Network

·         Screening and the incidence of newly diagnosed, metastatic prostate cancer over time | THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK