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Artera Launches AI Test for Decision-Making on Prostate Cancer Treatment Course
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- Howard Wolinsky
The test estimates how a patient’s cancer may progress and predicts the benefit of treatment for localized prostate.
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High-Dose Prednisone Can Reduce Rate of Pregnancy Post-Vasectomy
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- Howard Wolinsky
The findings were “a real shock,” Dr. Landon Trost said.
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Office Procedure Found to Get Stone Fragments Rolling
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- Howard Wolinsky
An experimental handheld ultrasonic device used in an office setting was shown to guide residual...
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OTC Solution for Erectile Dysfunction?
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- Howard Wolinsky
The product is a gel that the FDA considers to be a device.
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Prostate Cancer Tsunami Coming, Experts Caution
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- Howard Wolinsky
Expert suggests approaches for enabling earlier diagnosis of prostate cancer in men in low- to middle-income countries.
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Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer: Evidence-Based or Oversold?
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- Howard Wolinsky
Richard LaFrate’s urologist asked him to pay $25,000 out of pocket to undergo a focal procedure at a clinic in the Bahamas.
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Plant-Based Diet a Boon for Men With Prostate Cancer
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- Howard Wolinsky
A diet of fresh vegetables and fruit with few animal-based products is linked to reduced risk for recurrent prostate cancer, says study.
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CMS Okays Payment for Novel AI Prostate Test
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- Howard Wolinsky
The test improves risk stratification or prognostication over standard clinical and pathologic tools, says expert.
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Active Surveillance for Low-Risk PCa: Sprint or Marathon?
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- Howard Wolinsky
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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Enzalutamide improves metastasis-free survival, QoL in prostate cancer
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- Howard Wolinsky
“This is the first time we have seen this kind of results with a novel hormonal therapy without castration.”
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Is this the best screening test for prostate cancer?
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- Howard Wolinsky
Researchers from the United Kingdom found that half of men with apparently “safe” PSA levels had clinically significant prostate cancers when...
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Predicting prostate cancer risk: Are polygenic risk scores ready for prime time?
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- Howard Wolinsky
“A polygenic risk score estimates your risk by adding together the number of bad cards you were dealt by the impact of each card, such as an ace...
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Urology groups endorse two prostate biopsy approaches
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- Howard Wolinsky
“If you step out of the echo chamber, what you’ll find is that the accurate complications amongst the two procedures are not that dramatically...
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Watching feasible for asymptomatic kidney stones
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- Howard Wolinsky
Urologists can be comfortable watching small stones (2.4 mm or less in size, but any significantly larger than that (7-8 mm) should be managed...
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Prostate biopsies a laughing (gas) matter?
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- Howard Wolinsky
“At levels of less than 50%, patients respond normally to verbal commands and maintain normal airway reflexes.”