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UC Irvine Health urologists and health policy experts report in a new study that two written assessments that identify existing comorbidities – the patient-reported Total Illness Burden Index for Prostate Cancer (TIBI-Cap) and the physician-reported Charlson Comorbidity Index – can successfully target prostate patients who would not benefit from biopsy to discover possible cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-comorbidities-factor-prostate-biopsy-choice.html Cancer Wed, 15 May 2013 09:18:45 EST news287828319 With the help of genetics, prostate specific antigen (PSA) screenings may become more accurate and reduce the number of unnecessary prostate biopsies, according to a new study from Northwestern Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-genetic-variants-psa-technique-biopsies.html Cancer Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:47:26 EST news286037239 Focusing prostate cancer testing on men at highest risk of developing the disease is likely to improve the ratio between benefits and the harms of screening, suggests a paper published today in BMJ. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-deaths-prostate-cancer-age.html Cancer Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:30:01 EST news285353853 Genetic variants have been identified which can increase serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) concentrations and prostate cancer risk. A new study published in The Journal of Urology reports that correcting PSA levels for these genetic variants can have significant consequences, including avoiding unnecessary biopsies for some men and eliminating false complacency for others. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-personalizing-prostate-specific-antigen-specificity.html Cancer Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:20:01 EST news285232076 "Are there genetic risk factors for PCa? Yes, and BRCA2 and HOXB13 are useful for predicting high-risk disease," said Jack Cuzick (GB) president of the International Society for Cancer Prevention (ISCaP), referring to the two genes implicated in high-risk prostate disease. Cuzick gave a report on the Consensus Statement for Prostate Cancer Prevention at the closing plenary session of the 28 Annual EAU Congress held in Milan, Italy from March 15 to 19. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-genetics-age-ethnicity-factors-pca.html Cancer Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:50:08 EST news283081802 Men who participate in biennial PSA based screening have a lower risk of being diagnosed as well as dying from prostate cancer up to 9 years after their last PSA test, according to the results of a new study to be presented at the 28th Annual EAU Congress in Milan http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-incidence-mortality-pca-termination-psa-based.html Cancer Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:10:03 EST news282818365 What's most important to a man as he decides whether or not to undergo prostate-specific antigen- PSA- screening for prostate cancer? What does he value most about the screening? And what's the best way to present the information to help him make an appropriate decision for himself? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-prostate-specific-antigen-screening-values-techniques.html Cancer Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:40:01 EST news279822719 (HealthDay)—Compared with standard screening, alternative prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening strategies could maintain good prostate cancer detection rates while reducing overdiagnoses and unnecessary biopsies, according to research published in the Feb. 5 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-alternative-psa-screening-strategies.html Cancer Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:40:01 EST news279292220 Regular consumption of deep-fried foods such as French fries, fried chicken and doughnuts is associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer, and the effect appears to be slightly stronger with regard to more aggressive forms of the disease, according to a study by investigators at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-deep-fried-food-prostate-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:19:41 EST news278612370 Infectious diseases in Ghana tend to capture the most attention, but a quiet crisis may soon take over as the country's most threatening epidemic: cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-stigma-stymies-prostate-cancer-screening.html Cancer Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:35:22 EST news278267715 Measurements taken over time of prostate specific antigen, the most commonly used screening test for prostate cancer in men, improve the accuracy of aggressive prostate cancer detection when compared to a single measurement of PSA, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the British Journal of Urology International. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-psa-aggressive-prostate-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:00:02 EST news277452788 PSA screening has resulted in improved prostate cancer survival, but the high rate of diagnosis and treatment side effects raise concerns about overtreatment. In the quest to prevent overtreatment, "active surveillance" has emerged as a plausible option, encouraged for men whose tumors may not need immediate treatment and may never progress to more serious illness. Appropriate criteria for selecting patients for active surveillance are continuously debated. A group of investigators from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York report that adding endorectal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to the initial clinical evaluation of men with clinically low prostate cancer risk helps assess eligibility for active surveillance. Their results are published in The Journal of Urology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-mri-patients-prostate-cancer-benefit.html Cancer Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:54:54 EST news267724488 In the medical world, where decisions invariably involve risk and uncertainty, two Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center physicians note that experts generally base their recommendations on the outcome of death, which is "readily determined, easily quantified, concrete." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-physicians-expert-vital-issues-patients.html Health Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:00:07 EST news266682721 (HealthDay) -- Although the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) has reported a 29 percent reduction in prostate-cancer mortality for men who undergo prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening, the benefit is attenuated by loss of quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) due to post-diagnosis effects, according to a study published in the Aug. 16 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-benefit-psa-loss-quality-adjusted-life-years.html Cancer Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:50:02 EST news264332752 (Medical Xpress) -- New research suggests that many men with prostate cancer do not need immediate treatment, especially if they have low PSA scores or low-risk tumors that are unlikely to grow and spread. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-men-prostate-cancer-early-surgery.html Cancer Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:05:20 EST news261889508 (HealthDay) -- Men with a life expectancy of more than 10 years should talk with their doctor about getting a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer, an expert panel recommends. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-expert-panel-psa-benefit-men.html Cancer Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:35:13 EST news261678904 (Medical Xpress) -- Recent recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) advising elimination of routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer in healthy men are likely to encounter serious pushback from primary care physicians, according to results of a survey by Johns Hopkins investigators. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-prostate-cancer-screening-guidelines-tough.html Cancer Fri, 25 May 2012 08:33:48 EST news257153617 Healthy men shouldn't get routine prostate cancer screenings, says updated advice from a government panel that found the PSA blood tests do more harm than good. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-advice-panel-routine-prostate.html Cancer Mon, 21 May 2012 18:18:52 EST news256843126 Following a period for public comment, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released its final recommendation for prostate cancer screening. The Task Force now recommends against PSA-based screening for all men, regardless of age. The final recommendations are being published early online in the May 22 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians (ACP). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-word-task-psa-based-screening-prostate.html Cancer Mon, 21 May 2012 17:00:01 EST news256823670 Screening younger men and men at risk of prostate cancer can be beneficial in reducing metastatic cancer and deaths and should not be abandoned, states an article published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-psa-screening-prostate-cancer-beneficial.html Cancer Mon, 07 May 2012 12:00:03 EST news255605414 (HealthDay) -- Most primary care providers consider both a man's age and life expectancy in deciding whether to discontinue prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screenings, but multiple factors are involved in this decision, according to a study published online April 19 in Cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-age-life-termination-psa-screening.html Cancer Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:56:14 EST news254663763 (HealthDay) -- Adding another perspective to one of the most controversial and confounding issues in medicine, a new European study reports that men who received routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests to check for signs of prostate cancer were 30 percent less likely to die from the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-psa-prostate-cancer-death.html Cancer Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:40:01 EST news250968082 After the US Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial found cancer in many men with low levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA), many debated which PSA level should lead to a biopsy recommendation. The US Preventive Screening Task Force (USPSTF) recently concluded, amid considerable controversy, that the evidence does not support recommending PSA screening for men under 75 years old at all, because the risks outweigh the benefits. Now, a study shows that physicians in a large Washington state health plan were being conservative in biopsy referral even before the USPSTF recommendation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-biopsy-referral-psa-screening.html Health Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:48:21 EST news242970493 (AP) -- Men finally may be getting a clearer message about undergoing PSA screening for prostate cancer: Don't do it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-panel-prostate-cancer-screening.html Cancer Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:10:42 EST news237179019 In a large multi-center clinical trial, a new PSA test to screen for prostate cancer more accurately identified men with prostate cancer -- particularly the aggressive form of the disease -- and substantially reduced false positives compared to the two currently available commercial PSA tests, according to newly published research from Northwestern Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-prostate-cancer-accurate-diagnosis.html Cancer Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:09:53 EST news221314179