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Treatment of mCRPC:

1. Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
Signs and symptoms. Prostate cancer rarely demonstrates early symptoms. A nodule may be noticed on a digital rectal exam as tumor volume increases. Symptoms suggest locally advanced or metastatic disease. ...
2. Etiology & Epidemiology - Upper Tract Cancers
Background: Upper urinary tract urothelial tumors involving the renal pelvis or ureter account for 5% to 7% of all renal tumors and about 5% of all urothelial tumors. Renal pelvic tumors are not ...
3. Beyond the Abstract - Watchful waiting and active surveillance approach in patients with low risk localized prostatic cancer: An experience of out-patients clinic with 12-year follow-up, by Sergey Kravchick, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Currently, the liberal use of PSA screening has doubled the detection rates of prostate cancer (PCa).
4. Prostate Cancer: Prevalence - Incidence - Mortality
Prostate Cancer has been the most common noncutaneous malignancy in U.S. men since 1984, now accounting for one quarter of all such cancers. Adenocarcinoma of the prostate is the most common cancer ...
5. Beyond the Abstract - A risk-based strategy improves prostate-specific antigen-driven detection of prostate cancer, by Monique J. Roobol, MD, et al.
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Despite recent results of the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) that show relative mortality reduction up to 30% in favor of screening,
6. Beyond the Abstract - Transurethral resection of the prostate in saline versus nonconductive solution to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia: A randomized controlled study, by Taha Abo-Almagd Abdel-Meguid, MD, MSc, MB, BS
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - For many decades, transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) has been considered the benchmark of surgical management for BPH.
7. Beyond the Abstract - An alternative minimally invasive technique for large prostates (>80 mL): Transvesical prostatectomy through a 3-cm incision, by Vassilis Protogerou, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - The key to this procedure is the fact that we don’t use hemostatic sutures; therefore we don’t require a large operating field.
8. Beyond the Abstract - A randomized trial of photoselective vaporization of the prostate using the 80-W potassium-titanyl-phosphate laser vs transurethral prostatectomy, with a 1-year follow-up, by David M. Bouchier-Hayes, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - The treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) secondary to bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) makes up a significant amount of the workload of most urologists.
9. Beyond the Abstract - A new urinary catheter-related quality of life instrument for adults, by Mary Wilde, RN, PhD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) -   A New Catheter-related Quality of Life Instrument for Long-term Urinary Catheter Users
10. Beyond the Abstract - Patient satisfaction with the benefits of overactive bladder treatment: Exploration of influencing factors and development of a satisfaction assessment instrument, by Norman Zinner, MD, et al.
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - In the treatment of overactive bladder (OAB), patient-reported outcomes, such as the Patient Perception of Bladder Condition (PPBC) and Patient Satisfaction with Treatment ...
11. Beyond the Abstract - Photoselective prostatic vaporization for bladder outlet obstruction: 12-month evaluation of storage and voiding symptoms, by Cosimo De Nunzio, MD, PhD, Roberto Miano, and Andrea Tubaro, MD, FEBU
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Transurethral prostatic resection (TURP) is still considered the gold standard treatment for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) related to benign prostatic enlargement (BPE), ...
12. Beyond the Abstract - Antimuscarinics and bladder outlet obstruction: From a contraindication to an indication? by Anastasios Athanasopoulos, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Urinary symptoms, such as “storage/filling” symptoms owing to symptomatic bladder outlet obstruction (BOO), are very bothersome to the patient,
13. Beyond the Abstract - Safety and efficacy of combined transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate needle biopsy and transurethral resection of the prostate, by Tag Keun Yoo, MD, PhD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - This study was conducted to examine whether simultaneous transrectal prostate needle biopsy (TPNB) due to an increase in PSA levels is safe and effective
14. Beyond the Abstract - Risk of thromboembolic diseases in men with prostate cancer: Results from the population-based PCBaSe Sweden, by Mieke Van Hemelrijck, MSc, et al.
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) -   Risk of cardiovascular and thromboembolic disease following prostate cancer treatment
15. Beyond the Abstract - Understanding the effects of sildenafil treatment on erection maintenance and erection hardness, by Hubert I.M. Claes, MD, PhD, et al.
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - In our recent article published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, we used statistical modeling to make the first-reported estimate of the extent to which treatment of erectile ...
16. Beyond the Abstract - Transurethral resection (TUR) in saline plasma vaporization of the prostate vs. standard TUR of the prostate: 'The better choice' in benign prostatic hyperplasia? by Bogdan Geavlete, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) represents an important health problem of the contemporary society and the most common disease in male urological pathology.
17. Beyond the Abstract - Bipolar versus monopolar TURP: A prospective controlled study at two urology centers, by Daniel S. Engeler, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Over the past few decades, conventional, monopolar transurethral resection of the prostate (TUR-P) has established itself as an effective and very safe treatment for benign ...
18. Beyond the Abstract - Innovative technique in nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer-bipolar plasma vaporization, by Bogdan Geavlete, MD
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - The endoscopic treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) patients in general, and in cases of patients with large bladder tumors, in particular, is still marked ...
19. Beyond the Abstract - Disease-specific survival of men with prostate cancer detected during the screening interval: Results of the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer-Rotterdam after 11 years of follow-up, by Xiaoye Zhu, MD, et al.
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - In a screening program, interval cancers are cancers which are diagnosed between two screening visits.
20. Beyond the Abstract - The evaluation and treatment of nocturia: A consensus statement, by Jeffrey P. Weiss, MD, FACS
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - In April, 2010, a 2-day interdisciplinary conference on nocturia was convened by the New England Research Institutes, Inc. in Cambridge, MA.