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]

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