No Surgery May Be Feasible in Gleason 9-10 Prostate Ca Study finds similar outcomes with two multimodal approaches Nov 23, 2018
NCRI: Highlights from the Annual Conference Prostate cancer tradeoffs, rising melanoma mortality, safer regimen for thyroid cancer Nov 05, 2018
Black Race Not Associated with Worse Prostate Ca Outcomes Results contrast with past population registry data Oct 24, 2018 video
Nearly 90% Free of Prostate Ca Progression With ADT, Pelvic Node RT Data also showed trend toward reduction in distant metastases Oct 22, 2018
Prostate RT Ups Overall Survival in Metastatic Disease Benefit limited to men with low disease burden Oct 22, 2018
Adding Radium-223 to Abiraterone No Help in Prostate Ca More fractures, deaths in patients with mCRPC and bone mets Oct 20, 2018
SBRT Doubles 5-Year Survival in Oligometastatic Cancers Most patients in phase II trial had up to three metastatic lesions Oct 17, 2018
High Anxiety with Active Surveillance in Prostate Cancer? Not Really In my case, the first week after diagnosis was bad, but that was it Sep 23, 2018
Cancer Linked to Infertility in Men and Women Assisted reproductive technology not to blame, researchers say Jul 03, 2018
Opinions Divided at AMA on Prostate Cancer Screening Resolution referred for further study Jun 13, 2018
Prostate Surgery and Outright Lies What happened to one patient with low-grade cancer pressured into the OR Jun 10, 2018
Upfront MRI Could Rule Out Prostate Ca in Most, Reduce Biopsy Need Less-costly biparametric MRI can spare men from TRUS biopsy Jun 08, 2018
Phototherapy Delays Radical Prostate Cancer Tx Half as many conversions from surveillance at 4 years May 24, 2018
Assay May Help Avoid Needless Prostate Biopsies Distinguishes clinically significant from insignificant/benign disease May 19, 2018
Sorting Out Genomic Tests for Prostate Cancer Discordance between tests, with NCCN risk criteria May 18, 2018
Nerve-Sparing Prostatectomy Doesn't Help Everyone Benefits limited mainly to men with strong sexual function before surgery Apr 25, 2018
Slow Medicine: More on Prostate Cancer Screening; Simple Treatments for Nausea Also, a study quantifies waste in clinical practice Apr 13, 2018
Steroids and Asthma; One-Time PSA: It's PodMed Double T! This week's topics include the dangers of e-cigarettes, steroids and asthma, five types of diabetes, and a single PSA measurement and outcomes. Mar 10, 2018 podcast
Reintervention Rates High for Sacral Neuromodulation Researchers report 'alarming' rates within 5 years of placement, and urge a device registry Feb 25, 2018
Time to Metastasis Prolonged in Castration-Resistant Prostate Ca Researchers found a 22-month improvement with enzalutamide Feb 09, 2018
Apalutamide Slows Metastasis in Prostate Cancer Two-year delay in metastatic progression with apalutamide Feb 05, 2018
A Patient's Journey: And Now, a Word from a Pathologist Howard Wolinsky goes one-on-one with pathologist and blogger Lester Raff, MD Jan 02, 2018
A Patient's Journey: There's a Vitamin for That Howard Wolinsky may have the most expensive urine in Chicago Dec 15, 2017
A Patient's Journey: What Is 'Just Right'? In this installment of A Patient's Journey, Howard Wolinsky talks A1C with his primary care physician Nov 24, 2017
Advanced Ca Patients Benefit from Online Symptom Reports Patient-reported outcomes tied to increased survival Jun 05, 2017
Abiraterone Combo: A New Care Standard in Prostate Cancer? Earlier treatment appears to improve survival in metastatic disease Jun 03, 2017
PSA Testing: Docs Walk the Screening Talk Physicians likely to undergo screening themselves May 13, 2017
ESTRO: Tumor-Adapted RT Lowers Pneumonitis in Lung Cancer Selected presentations from the European RT meeting May 07, 2017
Wise Buy? Focused Ultrasound Therapies Exciting technology, but now sold to patients on slim supporting evidence Apr 28, 2017
MSK Cancer Alliance: Mainly About Medicine Bi-directional relationship strengthens regional cancer care Mar 11, 2017
A Patient's Journey: The First That Was Almost Forgotten Invited to tell his story to a gathering of prostate cancer specialists, Howard Wolinsky had to elbow his way to the mic Feb 19, 2017
'Jurassic' Clinical Trial Yields Prostate Cancer Guidance Negative trial informs new studies of adjuvant therapy Feb 17, 2017
A Patient's Journey: Celebrity Revelation Stirs the Pot Ben Stiller says PSA testing saved his life. Did it really? Oct 12, 2016
A Patient's Journey: Can High-Grade PIN Be 'Great News'? Biopsy vacation ends, worry index jumps Sep 04, 2016
Prostate Cancer: Informed Decisions or Information Overload? To biopsy, or not to biopsy -- a Shakespearean dilemma Jul 05, 2016
'Cautious Optimism' for HIFU in Prostate Cancer Radical treatment avoided for 2 years in 90% of patients May 13, 2016
