Combined androgen blockade with bicalutamide for advanced prostate cancer: Long-term follow-up of a phase 3, double-blind, randomized study for survival Department of Urology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan has released some very significant survival data about a previously reported, double-blind, randomized, multicenter phase 3 trial. This trial compared combined androgen blockade [...]
A presentation at the ASCO conference in Florida reconfirmed the fact that increased levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) is associated with adverse outcomes (earlier death) in men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) treated with docetaxel (taxotere). The study analyzed the baseline serum samples from 119 castrate resistant (CRPC) men enrolled in 6 phase I or [...]
Why do we need an Office of Men’s Health and why do we need more emphasize put on men’s health awareness? Studies like this one in the UK answer these simple questions: A recent study published this week by the National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN) and Cancer Research UK, concluded that men are almost 40 [...]
The Department of Urology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, performed a retrospective study designed to evaluate the overall survival (OS) and disease-specific survival (DSS) in men receiving primary androgen-deprivation therapy (PADT) or salvage medical ADT (SADT) for prostate cancer. The study included men who were diagnosed and treated with ADT between July [...]
At the European Association of Urology’s 23rd Annual Congress there was an abstract presented (Abstract 186) that concluded that three-dimensional external beam radiation (EBRT) with 6 months of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for the treatment of patients with locally advanced prostate cancer shows significantly shorter patient survival than the same treatment followed by 3 years [...]