NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Diagnostic imaging with 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET detects about 80% of pelvic nodal metastases at initial staging
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Lymph Node Dissection in Prostate Cancer: ‘Jury Is Still Out’
The role of pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) in patients with localized prostate cancer remains controversial. Although guidelines are increasingly
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Radical Prostatectomy Shifting to Higher-Risk Cases in Era of Active Surveillance
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There has been a trend towards decreasing use of radical prostatectomy (RP) in men with
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New Agent Approved for PSMA PET Scanning in Prostate Cancer
A new injectable radioactive diagnostic agent for positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging for men with prostate cancer has been approved by
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Cancer Diagnoses Jump at 65 Years When Medicare Kicks In
A few years ago, Joseph Shrager, MD, a lung cancer surgeon at Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, noticed that
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Ultra-High Single-Dose Radiotherapy Promising in Some With Prostate Cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In certain patients with organ-confined prostate cancer, virtual prostatectomy via ultra-high single-dose radiotherapy (SDRT) compares
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No Benefit of Dose-Intensified Salvage Radiation for Prostate Cancer Recurrence
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Dose-intensified salvage radiotherapy is not superior to conventional dose salvage RT and is associated with
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