When looking into risk factors for prostate cancer, your patients may look to lifestyle factors. While some, like diet and smoking, are seen as risks for prostate cancer development, research into alcohol has drawn multiple conclusions. What have recent studies said about alcohol and prostate cancer, and does the type of alcohol affect risk?
Greater effort should be directed at detecting and aggressively treating prostate cancer metastasis earlier, an approach made possible with the advent of highly sensitive and specific molecular imaging techniques and potent anticancer agents.
Pelvic lymph node metastases visualized on PSMA PET/CT prior to prostate cancer surgery independently predicts an increased risk for biochemical disease progression, a study found.
