Side effects following RT vs surgery vs surveillance for localized prostate cancer
Two new studies:
Chen, et al: Association Between Prostate Cancer Treatment and Quality of Life
Barocas, et al: Outcomes of Radiation, Surgery, or Observation for Localized Prostate Cancer
Seems like this is the best data to date on patient reported outcomes for modern RT, surgery, and surveillance, with IMO great support for RT. Far worse...
Side effects following RT vs surgery vs surveillance for localized prostate cancer (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - March 25, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: radoncolous Source Type: forums
Prostate SBRT in NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/health/prostate-cancer-sbrt-radiation-therapy.html?_r=0 (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - March 21, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chartreuse Wombat Source Type: forums
Nurse practitioner gets VA sued for 2.5 mm
http://www.disabledveterans.org/2017/03/07/veteran-wins-2-5m-prostate-cancer-case/
Nurse practitioner felt abnormality on veterans prostate but failed to refer to a urologist or order any additional tests. VA got sued for 2.5 mm dollars and the poor man who now has advanced stage cancer won. Judge decided nurse practitioner had to be held accountable. Terrible what happened, may slow down the aggressive encroachment of mid levels though.
Also crazy that he VA actually got sued...
Nurse practitioner gets VA sued for 2.5 mm (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - March 9, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Strider_91 Source Type: forums
What would you do?
Elderly man with pelvic pain
Pain started after catheterization for urinary retention, he states.
Pain includes perineum and anus. Especially bad with defecation. It is constant and severe.
He has history of rad for prostate cancer several years ago.
I've talked with a urology friend...said to make sure someone checked PSA recently, said to find out if he's had his bladder scoped recently. He sees a urologist, so I'm pretty sure these have been done.
I tried superior hypogastric...
What would you do? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - February 26, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: ateria radicularis magna Source Type: forums
Final Results of RTOG 9601 published - practice changing
Published yesterday in NEJM (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1607529)
They took men with PSA failure after prostatectomy and performed a placebo-controlled, double-blind trial of prostate bed XRT with or without 24 months of biclutamide.
12 year OS = 76% with biclutamide, 71% without
Similar statistically significant results were seen when looking at prostate cancer specific survival and development of metastatic disease.
The main side effect was gynecomastia.
I...
Final Results of RTOG 9601 published - practice changing (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - February 3, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Gfunk6 Source Type: forums
Chances? DO 3.9 science 3.8 overall 502 (123 CARS)
What are my chances. I have applied to the following schools.
Campbell U
Des Moines U
Lake Erie (both campuses)
Michigan State
Newark Institute of Tech
Nova
Ohio university
PCOM 2 campuses
University of Pikeville
West virginia
Touro College
Edward Via
Shadowed a MD for 2 semesters got 100 hours.
I have 400+ hours in a prostate cancer lab. I am attempting to get a full time job there with my biochem degree.
I hace 200+ clincial hours as a volunteer running tests on patients
I have...
Chances? DO 3.9 science 3.8 overall 502 (123 CARS) (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - August 15, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: GrantAlexander127 Source Type: forums
Re: Screening for prostate cancer: time to put all the data on the table
(Source: BMJ Comments)
Source: BMJ Comments - June 24, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: forums
Asco 2016
ASCO is in process right now. Did you guys find any interesting abstracts?
A couple I found interesting:
http://abstract.asco.org/176/AbstView_176_162108.html
It seems non-1p/19q-codeleted °III gliomas will also be getting chemo additionally to RT in the future.
http://abstract.asco.org/176/AbstView_176_166735.html
Hormomes for intermediate risk prostate cancer even in the era of dose escalation seem to be beneficial. The EORTC 22991 trial, recently published in JCO,...
ASCO 2016 (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - June 6, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Palex80 Source Type: forums
Re: Second malignancies after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis
(Source: BMJ Comments)
Source: BMJ Comments - May 28, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: forums
Articles to use against Proton radiotherapy for prostate cancer
What articles do you usually site to sway patients away from proton therapy for prostate cancer? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - March 24, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: XRT_doc Source Type: forums
Second malignancies after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: a frequent misconception
(Source: BMJ Comments)
Source: BMJ Comments - March 22, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: forums
Re: Second malignancies after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis
(Source: BMJ Comments)
Source: BMJ Comments - March 15, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: forums
New low-temperature plasma treatment for prostate cancer
by Bettymaria (Posted Mon Apr 13, 2015 12:07 am)Researchers from the University of York in the UK have discovered a potential new treatment option for patients with early-stage prostate cancer - low-temperature plasmas.The study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, seeks to address the current inadequacy of long-term treatment for prostate cancer, despite the continual improvements that have been made to methods of treatment in recent years.At present, patients who develop early stage organ-confined tumors can be treated with a focal therapy, such as cryotherapy or radiotherapy."However, around a third of patients ...
Source: Med Student Guide - April 13, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: forums
getting into med school with a history of mild depression?
hey,
so i'm 16 and currently doing my a levels (well, i'm in the AS year) which are Biology, Chemistry, Psychology and Maths. I've had my heart set on medicine since i was about 12 years old and first realized that i was perhaps clever enough to do so. I got the following grades in my GCSE's
Chemistry - A*
Biology - A*
English language - A*
English literature - A*
Health and social dual award - A*, A*
Music - A
Physics - A
Maths - A
History - A
Latin - B
Spanish - C (I took it in yr9, two years early and was off for 8 weeks prior to the exam due to recovery after surgery)
I think that's them all, but i might have missed ...
Source: New Media Medicine - November 3, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: emmawilson Tags: Access to Medicine Source Type: forums
