Prostate Cancer

The recent approval of several new agents for the treatment of prostate cancer has heralded a new era for managing this condition.

Neal D. Shore, MD, FACS, medical director, Carolina Urologic Research Center, Myrtle Beach, discusses a long-term safety analysis of the COU-AA-302 study, which he presented at the 2014 AUA Annual Meeting.

Deepak A. Kapoor, MD, from Integrated Medical Professionals, PLLC, discusses the inclusion of radium-223 in the AUA guideline for castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).

Analysis of trends in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) dynamics suggested that PSA growth rates, as well as the amount of PSA-level increase due specifically to cancer, might offer a means of distinguishing aggressive, potentially fatal prostate cancer from clinically inconsequential tumors.

Christopher P. Evans, MD, professor, chairman, Department of Urology, University of California at Davis School of Medicine, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the results of an analysis of patients with and without visceral disease defined as liver and/or lung metastases who participated in the PREVAIL study.

Men given the GnRH antagonist degarelix because their PSA level rose after primary therapy fared at least as well on an intermittent medication schedule as on a continuous schedule

E. David Crawford, MD, from University of Colorado at Denver, discusses a study presented at the 2014 AUA Annual Meeting that analyzed intermittent androgen deprivation with degarelix.

Daily treatment with the PDE-5 inhibitor tadalafil (Cialis) led to a significant decrease in loss of penile length among men who had undergone bilateral nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy.

When it comes to detecting prostate cancer accurately and noninvasively, dogs may be ahead by a nose.