New Prostate Cancer Grading System Validated
Proposed 5-tiered system found to predict the risk of prostate cancer-specific mortality.
Proposed 5-tiered system found to predict the risk of prostate cancer-specific mortality.
Increased fractional excretion of phosphate also found to increase risk of allograft loss.
The proportion of patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy in the United States rose from 0.6% to 2.7% between 2004 and 2013.
Exhaustion, low energy, increases in absenteeism, and drops in productivity are among the signs of burnout.
In patients undergoing confirmatory biopsy for active surveillance, MRI can increase detection of clinically significant tumors compared with standard systematic biopsy.
When MRI-US fusion biopsy is added to the standard 12-core biopsy, the number of men eligible for active surveillance decreases, study finds.
In 2013, nearly one third of all minimally invasive radical nephrectomies were performed with robotic assistance.
Magnetic resonance imaging of the prostate missed 13% of high-grade cancers that were later found on transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy.
CRPC patients treated with radium-223 spent fewer days in the hospital both before and after a skeletal event compared with placebo recipients.
Lower eGFR and higher ACR are associated with an elevated risk of infection-related hospitalization and infection-related death.