Urology
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Age, race impact prostate cancer risk
Major Finding: Men aged 75 years or older accounted for 12% of the population, but for 24% of intermediate-risk and 26% of high-risk disease.Data...
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Postop Radiation Slows Prostate Cancer Progression
Major Finding: Among postprostatectomy patients, 39.4% of patients who underwent immediate radiation had biochemical progression, versus 61.8% of...
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Cultivate 'Distress Tolerance' for Early-Stage Prostate Cancer
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Surgery Didn't Cut Mortality from PSA-Detected Prostate Cancer
Major Finding: In patients with localized prostate cancer, all-cause mortality was 47.0% and disease-specific mortality was 4.4% among men...
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Transfusions, Blood Conservation Yield Similar Outcomes After Cardiac Surgery
Major Finding: Compared with transfusion recipients, Jehovah's Witnesses who refused transfusions after undergoing similar cardiac surgery had...
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PSA May Be Unreliable in Type 1 Diabetes
Major Finding: In men with type 1 diabetes, every 10% increase in HbA1c was associated with a 1.3 ng/mL decrease in prostate specific antigen.Data...
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Prostate Cancer Therapies: From Fast-Track to Graveyard-Bound
Major Finding: Radium-223 was the big winner, with a 30.5% reduction in the risk of death compared with placebo in men with CRPC and bone...
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AMA Delegates Slam PSA, Mammography Screening Recs
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OGX-427 Takes Aim at Novel Target in Prostate Cancer
Major Finding: At 12 weeks, 71% of patients on OGX-427 plus prednisone were progression free, compared with 40% on prednisone alone.Data Source:...
News From the College
Dr. Bahnson Named Chair of ACSPA-Surgeonspac
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Prostatitis and Interstitial Cystitis in Men Are Underdiagnosed
Major Finding: Interstitial cystitis or chronic prostatitis may affect up to 2 million U.S. men.Data Source: The data are from a national...