Signs of Success
Dr. Catalona is presenting the case for early detection of prostate cancer at medical conferences across the United States. QUEST is including information from his presentation in this issue and in upcoming issues.
QUEST informs readers of the latest advances in urologic prostate cancer research, especially detection, prevention, and treatment.
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Early Detection of Prostate Cancer: Saving Lives Or Overtreating
No way to know for certain that any tumor is insignificant Some academic centers are moving toward not immediately treating prostate cancer patients who have favorable tumor features (i.e., low Gleason grade and low volume of cancer in biopsy specimens),…
PSA Dilemma: Test Results and What Should Be Done About Them
(Dr. Catalona received the 2005 Huggins Award from the Society of Urologic Oncology and gave the Award Lecture on The PSA Dilemma in the Overdiagnosis and Underdiagnosis of Prostate Cancer. This article in QUEST is a summary of that lecture…
ONE MAN TO ANOTHER: Surgery Plus Radiation When Required: Is It the Best Choice?
A Univeral Approach My prior article in QUEST, Winter 2005, described a “universal” approach to achieving a high likelihood of long-term remission and a return to a positive life for a wide range of prostate cancer patients who have low-risk…
Identifying Men Susceptible to Prostate Cancer
To facilitate prostate cancer gene mapping and identification, the ICPCG was established in 2002 Dr. Catalona will be a co-investigator for a prostate cancer susceptibility study sponsored by ICPCG, the International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics. (William Isaacs, PhD, Johns…
An Advance for Using PSA to Diagnose Prostate Cancer
Dr. Catalona has built upon his findings to discover various components of PSA One of the most serious dilemmas in diagnosing prostate cancer is that the PSA test, recognized first by Dr. Catalona as an invaluable tool for early detection…
URF and Dr. Catalona’s Prostate Cancer Research Collaborations Help Other Scientists
Researchers build upon each other’s findings The possibility that some prostate cancers might be caused by a virus has received media attention in the last few months. If research shows that a virus causes some prostate cancers, then developing new…
Reports From Dr. Catalona’s Follow-up Studies | 2006
Age-Specific Risk of Prostate Cancer: Intro: A man’s risk of developing prostate cancer increases if his baseline PSA is above the median for his age group. Many physicians consider a PSA level of 2.5 or 4.0 ng/ml a threshold for…
