Please note that there is a fine line in assigning articles to specific categories.
"Zero" is in process of reorganizing their News Archives. At this time we have deleted most links to their website; please be patient.
Active Surveillance
MedPage Today, May 31, 2010: "AUA: Delayed Surgery Boosts Prostate Cancer Risk"
Urology, February, 2010: "Treatment Outcomes of Radical Prostatectomy in Potential Candidates for 3 Published Active Surveillance Protocols"
Diet, General Health and Supplements
ScienceDaily.com, Oct 19, 2010: "Prostate Cancer Patients Are at Increased Risk of Pre-cancerous Colon Polyps"
ConsumerAffairs.com, Oct 7, 2010: "Prostate Cancer Treatment Progress: Death Rate Declines 45%"
Washington Post, September 26, 2010: $93,000 Cancer drug: How much is life worth (Provenge)
New York Times, September 27, 2010: "Regulators Call Health Claims in Pom Juice Ads Deceptive"
Chews4HealthInc., Dec. 30, 2009: "Farm raised vs. wild salmon"
Medical News Today, Dec. 13, 2010: Pomegranate Components That Could Stop Cancer From Spreading
Wall Street Journal, Nov. 30, 2010: Triple That Vitamin D Intake, Panel Prescribes
National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), Nov. 24, 2010: Soy May Stop Prostate Cancer Spread
Edward L. Weber, MD, Medical Oncologist, Nov., 2010: "Recent Developments in Prostate Cancer" (Short Synopsis)
ScienceDaily.com, July 14, 2010: "High-Risk Prostate Cancer Associated With Significantly Lower Bone Mineral Content Loss"
GaeTimes, July 13, 2010: "How Broccoli Cuts Prostate Cancer Risk"
Am. J. Epidemiology, July 1, 2010: "Circulating 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer" [Footnote to test results by LabCorp: "Recent studies consider the lower limit of 32.0 ng/mL to be a threshold for optimal health" . It also shows 32.0 to 100.0 as the "Reference Interval," i.e., the normal range. ]
Los Angele Times, Apr. 26, 2010: "Omega-3 Fatty Acids Are Key to a Healthier Life"
The "New" Prostate Infolink, January 7, 2009: "The chicken or the egg ... or both?"
Reuters, January 7, 2010: "Exercise May Prevent Incontinence From Prostate Surgery"
New York Times, November 27, 2009: "Exploring a Low-Acid diet for Bone Health"
Douglas Scherr, MD; PSA Rising, November 6, 2009: "Obesity as a Factor In Prostate Cancer Treatment Options"
U.S. News & World Report, September 25, 2009: Exercise May Prevent Prostate Cancer
Noreem Kassem, www.menshealth.suite101.com, August 30, 2009: Saw Palmetto for Prostate Health
American Heart Association, August 17, 2009: Fish, Levels of Mercury and Omega-3 Fatty Acids
The "New" PC InfoLink, July 14, 2009: "Heavy" drinking, finasteride and prostate cancer risk
ScienceDaily, October 29, 2008: "Walking Prevents Bone Loss Caused From Prostate Cancer Treatment, Study Shows"
Us TOO, November 11, 2008: Statins May Reduce PSA Levels
Early Detection/Biopsies/Staging
Bloomberg Businessweek, Oct 25, 2010: "PSA Test Reduces Risk of Spread if Prostate Cancer Strikes
ProstateCancerInfoLink, August 18, 2010: "The continuing saga of the value of PSA velocity"
DukeHealth.org, July 9: "Baseline PSA Predicts Risk of Death from Prostate Cancer"
Bloomberg Businessweek, July 1: "PSA Test Does Cut Prostate Cancer Deaths, Study Finds" (44% Cut)
PR, November 2, 2009: "AUA RELEASES STATEMENT CLARIFYING PROSTATE CANCER TESTING RECOMMENDATIONS" [Quote: A cancer cannot be treated if it is not detected]
European Urology, October 2, 2009: Prostate Cancer Mortality Reduction by Prostate-Specific Antigen–Based Screening Adjusted for Nonattendance and Contamination in the European Randomised Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) [Note: Up to 31% reduction in mortality rate for men actually screened]
Physicians Weekly, August 31, 2009: Prostate Cancer: Determining When to Treat
NTXPCC, Pat Fulgham, MD, June, 2009: The Current Value of Imaging in the Diagnosis and Staging of Prostate Cancer
PR Release, Apr. 27, 2009: "AUA Counters Mainstream Recommendations With New Best Practice Statement on Prostate Antigen Testing"
AUA, Apr. 27, 2009: Prostate-Specific Antigen Best Practice Statement: 2009 (82 pages)
PSA Rising, Apr. 23, 2009: MRI: Effective Tool for Staging Prostate Cancer
PR Release, March 25, 2009: "AUA STATEMENT ABOUT PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN TESTING"
Medical News, Jan. 17, 2009: Targeted Prostate Cancer Biopsy and Cancer Treatment Earns Acceptance From Nation's Top Prostate Specialists (TargetScan)
General
Science Daily, Jan. 4, 2010: "PSA Value at 2 Years Post-Treatment Can Predict Long-Term Survival in Prostate Cancer Patients"
NewsRX, December 14, 2009: "New figures on cancer in Europe show a steady decline in mortality but big variations", PC: mortality rate decline in Western Europe attributed to better treatment; mortality rate increase in Eastern Europe. Free subscription to Newsletter available at NewsRX.
PR Newswire, December 3, 2009: "AUA Foundation Urges USPSTF to Appoint Broader Range of Medical Experts"
2009, New Texas Law Removes Barrier to Clinical Trials
Renal and Urology News, September 18, 2009: Estrogen May Explain the Higher PCa Risk in Blacks
CNN, Aug. 27, 2009: How to get Kennedy-esque health care on your budget
The Palpable Prostate, July 29, 2009: Biochemical PSA Recurrence (includes AUA criteria)
Commission on Cancer: 2008 Outstanding Achievement Award Recipients (includes Medical City & Presbyterian)
New York Times, June 5, 2009: My Brief Life as a Woman (Editor: A "Must Read" for all of you on Hormones)
Reuters, Jan. 14, 2009: Experts urge prostate cancer 'man-o-gram'
New York Times, Jan. 12, 2009: Prognosis: Left Behind in Prostate Cancer Screening
Treatments
Cryogenic Surgery
Johns Hopkins, September 16, 2010: "A New Look At Cryosurgery"
High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)
ProstateCancerInfoLink, August 7: "Oncologic outcomes of HIFU for localized prostate cancer in 800+ patients"
Hormones/Advanced Prostate Cancer
Medical News Today, Dec. 15, 2010: XGEVA™ (Denosumab) Significantly Improved Bone Metastasis-Free Survival
Medical News Today, November 18, 2009: "Tulane Cancer Center To Begin Novel Clinical Trial For Late-Stage Prostate Cancer Drug"
HemOnc Today, June 26, 2009: ADT increased risk for diabetes, fractures in elderly men with prostate cancer
New England Journal of Medicine, June 11, 2009: Duration of Androgen Suppression in the Treatment of Prostate Cancer
Science Daily, Jan. 15, 2009: Why Prostate Cancer Patients Fail Hormone Deprivation Therapy
Radiation
Sloan Kettering, Nov. 8, 2010: Ten Year Outcome of IMRT (Abstract)
ProstateCancerInfoLink, Apr. 6, 2010: Should PSA levels be “undetectable” at 5 years after successful brachytherapy?
Urology, September 2009 Edition: Urinary Side Effects and Complications After Permanent Prostate Brachytherapy: The MD Anderson Cancer Center Experience
Research
ScienceDaily, Nov. 25, 2010: "New Imaging Technique Accurately Finds Cancer Cells, Fast" (Research)
Sloan Kettering, June 24, 2010: "Large-Scale Genomic Analysis of Prostate Cancer Unveiled"
PSA-Rising, January 12, 2010: "First Gene Marker Found for Aggressive Prostate Cancer"
CancerMSNBC, September 7, 2009: Virus may be cause of some prostate cancer
ScienceDaily News, June 23, 2009: Curb A Cancer's Deadliness? Potent Metastasis Inhibitor Identified *)
New York Times, Feb. 26, 2009: Older Men Urged to Consider a Drug to Prevent Prostate Cancer Registration (free) with Times required to access!
Reuters, Feb. 11, 2009: Urine test to judge whether a man's disease is likely to be aggressive and life-threatening
Johns Hopkins, Jan. 15, 2009: Research Links Obesity and Prostate Cancer Metastases
Surgery
Johns Hopkins, Nov. 26, 2010: "Surgery With the da Vinci Surgical System" (advanced publ.)
emedicine, Sept. 28, 2010: "Laparoscopic and Robotic Prostatectomy"
ProstateCancerInfoLink, Mar. 29, 2010: Should prostate cancer patients start doing Kegels before surgery?
"New" Prostate Cancer InfoLink, Feb. 10, 2010: "Surgery for lymph node-positive prostate cancer: a second look" [based on 2010 paper by Munich Cancer Registry]
Sitemaster, The "New" PCa InfoLink, Aug. 5, 2009: The surgical treatment of locally advanced disease: an update
TED (Technology Entertainment Design), June 2009: Catherine Mohr: "Surgery's past, present and robotic future" (Video)
PSA Rising, Apr. 26, Additional robot can help surgeon spot nerve bundle necessary to preserve potency
CureToday, Mar. 10, 2009: Robotic Surgery: Renaissance Surgery
Treatment Comparisons
ProstateCancerInfoLink, August 16: "RP vs. EBRT vs. ADT as first-line therapy for localized prostate cancer" [Editor: The data are based on treatments between 1996 and 2008; treatment technologies have improved dramatically over the last 15 years]
