Genitourinary Cancer
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SUDs rates highest in head, neck, and gastric cancer survivors
Alcohol use disorder was the most common type of SUD across multiple subtypes of cancer patients.
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Side Effects of Local Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer May Linger for Years
A new study compared long-term side effects in men with advanced prostate cancer who received initial local treatment with those who opted for...
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Optimal Follow-up After Fertility-Sparing Cervical Cancer Surgery
Investigators sought to find out if follow-up could be tailored to the patient’s risk for recurrence.
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Active Surveillance for Low-Risk PCa: Sprint or Marathon?
For some men, the strategy can prove to be short-lived, perhaps 5 years or less , or a life-long approach lasting until the man dies from another...
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MRIs, MRI-guided biopsies detect prostate cancer affordably
There is “a growing consensus that the use of MRI and potential MRI-guided biopsy is cost effective.”
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Enfortumab vedotin/pembrolizumab hailed as new standard for upfront mUC
After decades of stagnation, an almost doubling of life expectancy has set a new bar for the first-line treatment of locally advanced/metastatic...
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Observation, not radiotherapy, after radical prostatectomy
The investigators observed no benefit to adjuvant radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy in patients with prostate cancer in the phase 3...
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Doublet therapy ups survival in metastatic prostate cancer
“A clinically meaningful increase in long-term survival was observed in men diagnosed with de novo [metastatic castration-sensitive prostate...
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Short-course SBRT: Standard of care in prostate cancer?
Stereotactic body radiation therapy delivered in five fractions provided similar 5-year disease control as conventional, higher-dose external-beam...