Please note that there is a fine line in assigning articles to specific categories.
Active Surveillance
Johns Hopkins, June 25, 2013: Active Surveillance May Miss Aggressive Cancers in Black Men
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
Dr. Weil: Dr. Weil's Anti-Inflammatory Food Pyramid,
UsNews Health, Feb. 21, 2013: Blood Thinners May Boost Survival, but too early to recommend.
Oct. 18, 2012: No effect of daily
multi-vitamin on PCa risk
Dr. Geo's Natural
Health Blog, Oct. 7, 2012: Do you think fish protects against PCa?
UT-Southwestern
Medical Center, Aug. 28, 2012: Aspirin may help PCa
survivors live longer
Gizmag, July 24, 2011: FDA approves Viberect device for treatment
of erectile dysfunction
Medscape Today, Feb 24, 2011: "Mounting Evidence That Agent Orange Exposure Ups
Prostate Cancer Risk"
Nutra, Mar 7, 2011: "Fish Oil May Help Cancer
Patients' Fight Muscle Wastage"
MNT, June 10, 2011: "FDA: Finasteride and
Dutasteride Raise Risk of High-Grade PCa"
Cnn Health, June 23,
2011: Smoking linked to more
aggressive prostate cancer
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
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. ]
The "New" Prostate Infolink, January 7, 2009: "The chicken or the egg ... or both?"
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"
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"
J. Urology, Dec. 2011: Prostate Size, a Predictor
for Gleason Score Upgrades
EurekAlert, Apr 6, 2011: "New prostate screening test gives more accurate diagnosis"
ProstateCancerInfoLink, August 18, 2010: "The
continuing saga of the value of PSA velocity"
DukeHealth.org, Jan 20, 2016: "Baseline
PSA Predicts Risk of Death from Prostate Cancer
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]
The LANCET, Dec. 2014: European Trial after 13 years
WebMD, Oct. 2014: High Cholesterol and Prostate Cancer Return
USMD, Sep. 2014: Soldiers Deployed in Iraq & Afghanistan at higher PCa Risk
Medical News Today, 1 May 2014: Vitamin D deficiency may predict aggressive prostate cancer
Current: Cancer Insurance Checklist
Dr. GEO, 2014: Cancer Fitness and Exercise, Prostate Cancer Fitness
American Society of Cancer Oncology (ASCO): Cancer Survivorship (ASCO- pdf
J. NCCN, Feb. 2012: 10 Years of Progress in Prostate Cancer
Science Daily, Jan. 4, 2010: "PSA Value at 2 Years Post-Treatment Can Predict Long-Term Survival in Prostate Cancer Patients"
2009, New Texas Law Removes Barrier to Clinical Trials
New York Times, June 5, 2009: My Brief Life as a Woman (Editor: A "Must Read" for all of you on Hormones)
Treatments
Cryogenic Surgery
Johns Hopkins, Jan. 22, 2016: Cryotherapy Plus Immunotherapy May equal New Hope for Metastatic Prostate Cancer
ProstaCancerInfolink, July 22,
2011: Cryo surgery as first-line therapy in
patients > 75
High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)
ProstateCancerInfoLink, August 7, 2010: "Oncologic outcomes of HIFU for localized
prostate cancer in 800+ patients"
Hormones/Advanced Prostate Cancer
Patient Power,
Nov. 12, 2012: Sequencing of Advanced
PCa Therapies
HealthDay, May 16, 2012: Advanced Cancer Drug May
Help at Earlier Stage
Wall Street Journal, Feb. 1, 2012: Gaining on Prostate Cancer
(Advanced
PCa)
Journal Oncology, Jan. 17, 2012: Advanced PCa: Drug
Sequencing and Novel Approaches
Medical News Today, Dec. 15, 2010: XGEVA™ (Denosumab) Significantly Improved
Bone Metastasis-Free Survival
Radiation
ProstateCancerInfolink, May 8, 2013: AUA/ASTRO Guidelines for Radiation After Prostatectomy
, 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
Surgery
Johns Hopkins: "Robotic Prostatectomy"
J. Urology, March 2012: Excellent Survival Rates
After Surgery for Men > 64 with Low-Risk PCa
ProstateCancerInfolink,
June 29, 2011: Can ultrasensitive PSA at 3
years post-surgery project delayed BCR?
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]
TED (Technology Entertainment Design), June 2009: Catherine Mohr: "Surgery's past, present and robotic future"
(Video)
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]
ProstateCancerInfolink, Jan. 31, 2013: Functional Outcomes of RP and RT treatments performed in 1994/95.
Urology Times, July 1, 2012: 15 year survival after RP
and RT.
Research
CBD News, June 20, 2011: Prostate cancer cured in mice: Are humans next? (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"
Medical Press, September 9, 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