QUEST informs readers of the latest advances in urologic prostate cancer research, especially detection, prevention, and treatment.
Many QUEST readers have asked us to include women’s experiences during their partners’ diagnoses and treatment for prostate cancer. This issue, we start that topic and will continue to print stories in future issues. Deb Kolden couldn’t believe what her…
Hospitalization for fever or infection should be infrequent in prostate biopsies. In our *study (Catalona), 5 of 448 men (1.1%) were hospitalized for fever following a prostate biopsy. Although the number is small, we’d like to know if we could…
In the journey to discover the best diagnostic and treatment methods modern medicine can provide, researchers conduct long-term studies on existing screening practices. The outcomes can clarify practices but also they can confuse and sometimes even mislead the public. Recent…
Dr. Catalona wishes to keep his patients and research participants updated on the findings of his prostate cancer research group by providing brief lay summaries in QUEST. These summaries are from studies prepared by Dr. Catalona and his research…
At age 51, Dave Mayber considered himself lucky to be diagnosed with prostate cancer – and not a different cancer. “As scary as being diagnosed with cancer is, prostate cancer has a pretty good cure rate, and I had been…
The American Cancer Society is telling men to pull up their pants, roll down their sleeves and not to worry about that prostate cancer thing. Citing difficulties in determining who should be treated when cancer is found, the American Cancer…
Prostate cancer, the most common cancer in U.S. men and the second-most common cause of cancer deaths, often produces no symptoms until it is too far advanced to cure. That’s why in 1990, before there was PSA testing, only 68…
Two major problems in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer are not knowing: 1. who is at risk for the disease and 2. who is at risk for aggressive forms of the disease. Answers to both of these questions…
Before PSA screening for early detection of prostate cancer, more than two thirds of men treated for the disease had incurable cancer that had spread beyond the prostate at the time of diagnosis and treatment. Confronting A Problem It was…
(This summary is based upon information released from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. Prostatectomy patients of Dr. William J. Catalona were involved in the study and will be involved in future studies.) Ateam of Northwestern University researchers, using an extremely…
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