Adjuvant Therapy With Pegylated Interferon Alfa-2b Versus Observation in Resected Stage III Melanoma: A Phase III Randomized Controlled Trial of Health-Related Quality of Life and Symptoms by the ...
Cancer specialists explain what a prostatectomy is and who might need one - Treatment for prostate cancer has come a long way ...
We evaluated symptoms and self-assessments of quality of life in men with localized prostate cancer who participated in a randomized comparison between radical prostatectomy and watchful waiting.
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) announced that the CAPTAIN randomized clinical trial found that men with ...
Radical prostatectomy represents a widely accepted treatment for clinically localized prostate cancer diagnosed in healthy men with a high probability for a 10-y life expectancy. 1 Radical ...
Low-intensity extracorporeal shock wave therapy (LI-SWT) did not improve erectile dysfunction compared to a sham procedure in radical prostatectomy patients. Fewer than 20% of men in the LI-SWT group ...
Not all surgeries for prostate cancer are the same. Depending on the location and size of your prostate tumor, a surgeon may recommend different ways to remove it. In some cases, they also remove ...
"Robotic prostatectomy has superior or at least equal oncologic efficacy and complication rates compared to open prostatectomy," writes Michael O. Koch, MD, from the Indiana University School of ...
Although first described in 1991, 2 laparoscopic radical prostatectomy received little attention until reports from France in 2000 showed not only the feasibility of the procedure but also some ...
LAS VEGAS -- Focused ultrasound ablation for prostate cancer proved at least equivalent to radical prostatectomy for failure-free survival, according to a randomized trial reported here. After 3 years ...
Radical prostatectomy is widely used in the treatment of early prostate cancer. The possible survival benefit of this treatment, however, is unclear. We conducted a randomized trial to address this ...
Traditionally, open prostatectomy and transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) have been the mainstay of surgical therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) patients with larger and smaller ...