EDITOR'S NOTE:
Perceptions of treatment trade-offs in patients with prostate and breast cancer
Neil Love, MD
 
FEATURING:
Leonard G Gomella, MD, FACS
 

Case 1: 58-year-old man presenting with a neck mass and PSA over 500
Impact of combined androgen blockade
Antiandrogen withdrawal response
Prostate Cancer Journal Club

  • Feasibility Study: Watchful waiting for localized low-to intermediate- grade prostate carcinoma with selective delayed intervention based on prostate specific antigen, histological and/or clinical progression
  • Prospective evaluation of prostate cancer detected on biopsies 1, 2, 3 and 4: When should we stop?

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  Peter R Carroll, MD
 

Prostate cancer treatment patterns from the CaPSURE database
Primary hormonal therapy for prostate cancer
Management of patients with biochemical relapse
Management of patients with high-risk prostate cancer
Case 2: 49-year-old man with Gleason 4+3 prostate cancer
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  Peter T Scardino, MD
 

Multimodality approach to prostate cancer
Patients’ wishes to avoid postsurgical radiation therapy
Decision-making process about adjuvant hormonal therapy
Antiandrogen monotherapy
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  A Oliver Sartor, BA, MD
 

Prostate Cancer Journal Club

  • Extended pelvic lymphadenectomy in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy: High incidence of lymph node metastasis
  • Osteoporosis in men treated with androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer
  • Relationship between obesity and race in predicting adverse pathologic variables in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy

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