Treatments
Understanding Advanced Prostate Cancer
A quick guide to your disease and information you need to know
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Drug repurposing to treat PCa study
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1% ED & 1% incontrante rates!
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Personal Patient Profile - Prostate
This site allows you to build a profile by answering questions, then view personalized information about prostate cancer care options. It will help you understand your options, talk to your doctor, and make the best decision for you.
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By Prostate Cancer Research Institute
May 2019
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Combined therapy provides significant benefit
Reduce recurrence
Oct 2018
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Hormone therapy increases risk of Alzheimer's
1.84 time more likely to develop Alzheimer's
Mar 2017
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Emotional distress may lead to more aggressive treatment
Distress level predicted created likelihood of choosing surgery over active surveillance
Jan 13 2017
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Prostate cancer laser treatment 'truly transformative'
BBC
Dec 20 2016
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Treating Localized Prostate Cancer: A Review of Research for Adults
Tratamiento del cáncer de próstata localizado:
US Department of Health & Human Services
2016
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Prostate Cancer
2016
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Treatment Choices for Men With Early-Stage Prostate Cancer
National Cancer Institute
July 9 2016
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MRI-guided focal photothermal therapy
conclusion - effective and safe approach
May 16 2016
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Survival rates for PC better with surgery vs radiotherapy
most comprehensive study to-date
December 18 2015
Study: Chemo doesn't help end-stage cancer patients
no evidence that chemo improved patients' quality of life
July 23 2015
Five Essential Things to Know if You are Diagnosed with Cancer
Ground breaking author on cancer, John Leifer breaking it down for you
July 6 2015
Award-winning agent developed for PC diagnosis and treatment
PSMA is an ideal target for diagnostic purposes as well as targeted therapies
June 23 2015
Prostate Cancer Treatment Research Foundation
Goal is to help people make better decisions about localized PC treatments
May 27 2015
Radiation Plus Hormone May Help Some Patients
Study showed 50% reduction in 5 year death rates from a combined treatment approach
May 14 2015
Non-profit initiative leveraging cancer research where you can get and analyze the data
May 11 2015
Prostate Cancer Recovery Survey
Intriguing survey results from survivors on many aspects of prostate cancer
May 11 2015
Radiotherapy may prolong PC survival
low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy may improve survival for patients with PC
May 3 2015
PC Treatment with New Injectable Gel
New way to lower side effects of radiation has been used
Apr 26 2015
Initial therapy for casteration sensitive metastic PC
Very technical and extensive document including treatment recomendations
Apr 24 2015
Three-Pronged Approach by "Dr. Bob" Leibowitz
Excellent break-down of the data on different treatment types and the results. Insights to new scanning technology such as F-18 Bone Scan's and Choline C-11 PET scan. Insights on Firmagon vs Lupron. New drugs XL-184. Statins and PC. Very insightful video!
Apr 21 2015
Targeted biopsies and importance to do more than just treat prostate cancer
Apr 7 2015
'THE BIG C' is big business in KC area
Mike Sheery breaking down cancer center options in Kansas City
Apr 3 2015
Cancer therapy is being revolutionized by the emergence of immunotherapis
Mar 4 2015
Benefit of radiation after prostatectomy
Genomic classifier score identifies risk of metastasis and benefit of adjuvant radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy
Feb 18 2015
Memorial Sloan Kettering insightful tools calculating survival percentages for pre-radical prostectomy, post-radical prostectomy, salvage radiation, male life expectancy, tumor volume and PSA doubling times.
Feb 1 2015
Drug combo suppresses late-stage tumors
Low doses of metformin, a widely used diabetes medication, and a gene inhibitor known as BI2536 can successfully halt the growth of late-stage prostate cancer tumors, a Purdue University finds.
Jan 29 2015
Penn-led study on radiation - Jan 2015
Older men with prostate cancer benefit from radiation plus hormone therapy
Jan 7 2015
2014 study of the current literature on prostate cancer treatment results
Dec 15 2014
Are We Closer to a Cancer Cure?
Current clinical trials with ipilimumab include people with cancers of the breast, lungs, cervix, prostate, head and neck, pancreas, kidneys, and blood.
Dec 1 2014
The Big Picture: PCa Remission
Dr. Snuffy Myers outlines the big picture of durable, complete prostate cancer remissions.
Oct 23 2014
So Your PSA is high, What now?
Video from www.pcri.org about new ways to be better informed
Oct 22 2014
Interesting paper from Harvard Medical School concerning radical prostatectomy
Apr 1 2011