JANUARY 28, 2012

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BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Prostate cancer (PCA) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in men with a death rate reaching 26.7% for 2001-2005 in the United States.[1]

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BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - While there is increasing concern regarding over-diagnosis, prostate cancer mortality rates have fallen dramatically since the introduction of the PSA test.

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BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Orchiectomy, followed by active surveillance, is becoming the preferred treatment option for patients with stage I testicular cancer in all large centers in the world.

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BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Wilms Tumor (WT) is a very common renal tumor in childhood with more than 75% of cases diagnosed before the age of 5 years.

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PURPOSE: We report a Phase II trial assessing the acute and late toxicities of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), long-term androgen suppression (LTAS), and bevacizumab in patients with high-risk localized prostate cancer.

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INTRODUCTION: To safely irradiate retroperitoneal targets as paraaortic lymph node by separating abdominal at-risk organs from the target during irradiation, we created a percutaneous paravertebral approach of high-dose-rate brachytherapy with hyaluronate gel injection (HGI).

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OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the discrimination, calibration, and net benefit performance of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial Risk Calculator (PCPTRC) across five European randomized study of screening for prostate cancer (ERSPC), 1 United Kingdom, 1 Austrian, and 3 US biopsy

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