QUEST informs readers of the latest advances in urologic prostate cancer research, especially detection, prevention, and treatment.
Studies showing that men taking Proscar (finasteride) had a statistically significant increase in high-grade tumors lessened interest in using Proscar to prevent prostate cancer and as a treatment for enlarged prostate. A recent new study challenged this finding and suggested…
The usual way people think about disease is that it comes from a bacteria or virus and sometimes from an environmental agent. The cures are most often medicines that help the immune system fight the invading agents or, in the…
(Dr. Catalona Responds to Reports in the News.) A recent study (Platz, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) found that men who took drugs to reduce their cholesterol levels also had a lower risk for prostate cancer. This study…
(Dr. Catalona Responds to Reports in the News.) There has been some debate about whether it is still necessary to use the digital rectal exam in prostate cancer screening. Our recent study, (Catalona and Okotie) shows that a significant proportion…
(Prepared by Cecilia Lacks, PhD, from AUA presentation by William J. Catalona, MD and his Research Collaborators) INTRO: In 2005, prostate cancer accounted for approximately one third of new cancer diagnoses in men in the United States. Some men with…
(Prepared by Cecilia Lacks, PhD, from AUA presentation by William J. Catalona, MD and his Research Collaborators) INTRO: Active monitoring protocols, including “watchful waiting,” are being increasingly used to avoid unnecessary treatment for men with “clinically insignificant prostate cancer.” QUESTION:…
(Prepared by Cecilia Lacks, PhD, from AUA presentation by William J. Catalona, MD and his Research Collaborators) INTRO: New studies are demonstrating that adjuvant radiation therapy improves PSA progression-free survival in men with adverse pathology in their surgical specimen. Adjuvant…
“Every unsolved disease cries out for garlic around the neck.” By Jules Reichel Does good nutrition prevent or cure prostate cancer? When I was a little boy, a kid on the next block had a distorted body from polio. I…
“I do not believe the robotic prostatectomy is as safe a cancer operation as open radical prostatectomy.” In my opinion, the robotic prostatectomy (often called the DaVinci prostatectomy) is not as effective as the traditional open prostatectomy for accomplishing sometimes…
(This article is based upon research information published in Nature Genetics, June 2006. Dr. Catalona is one of the co-authors and his research population from the Northwestern prostate SPORE Pathology Core is one of the US groups studied. This material…
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