Investigators who conducted 2 clinical trials concluded that focal therapy is not inferior to radical prostatectomy with respect to treatment failure. Focal therapy such as high-intensity focused ...

For men with prostate cancer, radical prostatectomy, or surgical removal of the prostate, isn’t guaranteed to be curative, as one expert explained. Among men with prostate cancer, radical ...

From 2004-2009 to 2016-2020, the proportion of patients found to have high-risk and intermediate-risk prostate cancer after upfront radical prostatectomy increased from 16% to 27% and from 55% to 60%, ...

Stereotactic body radiotherapy as salvage therapy after radical prostatectomy was well tolerated. Toxic effects were comparable to a historical cohort of patients receiving conventionally fractionated ...

PET/CT offers excellent accuracy in the staging of high-risk prostate cancer (PCa), yet outcomes-based evidence of the clinical benefit remains limited. We aimed to determine whether the rates of ...

LAS VEGAS -- Focused ultrasound ablation for prostate cancer proved at least equivalent to radical prostatectomy for failure-free survival, according to a randomized trial reported here. After 3 years ...

With Men’s Health Week approaching, it is a good time to encourage open discussions about various health conditions, particularly prostate health. Driven by embarrassment, misconceptions, and a lack ...

CLARIFY: Positron emission tomography using 64Cu-SAR-bisPSMA in patients with high-risk prostate cancer prior to radical prostatectomy—A phase 3 diagnostic performance study. This is an ASCO Meeting ...

At 24 months' follow-up, the only phase 3 randomized clinical trial to directly compare functional and oncologic outcomes between robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy and open radical retropubic ...

Radical prostatectomy does not ensure a cure, with one in three men experiencing cancer recurrence and elevated PSA levels within 10 years post-surgery. Significant side effects of prostate removal ...