Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening is associated with decreased risk of prostate cancer-specific mortality (PCSM) among both Black and White men, according to a study published online Aug. 4 in JAMA Oncology.
Aug 10, 2022
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When thinking about men's health, many people tend to think about heart disease or ailments that that affect men as they age, such as an enlarged prostate or prostate cancer.
Jun 15, 2022
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Practice-changing research from Cedars-Sinai Cancer shows that a combination of androgen deprivation therapy—a commonly used hormone injection—plus pelvic lymph node radiation, kept nearly 90% of clinical trial patients' ...
May 26, 2022
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Access to therapies approved over the last decade has significantly lengthened median survival times in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. That conclusion comes from a large randomized clinical trial ...
May 2, 2022
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Over the past 15 years, public health authorities have downgraded recommendations for the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test as a screening tool to reduce the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of men with low-grade prostate ...
Apr 22, 2022
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Many men stopped getting screened for prostate cancer after a federal advisory committee said in 2008 that the tests weren't helpful for those over 74. Then in 2012, it said the evidence supporting tests for younger men was ...
Mar 21, 2022
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A novel prostate cancer treatment—225Ac-PSMA-617 radioligand therapy—has been shown to increase the progression free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) ...
Mar 9, 2022
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The combination of a novel blood test and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can reduce overdiagnosis of low-risk cancers as well as societal costs in prostate cancer screening, according to a cost-effectiveness study from ...
Jan 28, 2022
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A highly portable and rapid prostate cancer screening kit could provide early warning to populations with higher incidence of prostate cancer and particularly those with limited access to health care, such as African American ...
Jan 4, 2022
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Black, Hispanic, and Asian men whose results on a common prostate cancer screening test indicated a need for additional testing were less likely than their white counterparts to receive an increasingly used follow-up test ...
Nov 8, 2021
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