prostate cancer Archive — Page 5 of 9
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May 30, 2017
Age-Range Screening Recommendations
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May 30, 2017
Day In Life
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April 20, 2017
Prostate cancer screening recommendations altered for some older men
A federal task force has changed its recommendation about prostate cancer screening for some older men. The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) now recommends that men between the ages of 55 to 69 consult with their physicians about getting routine screening blood tests to detect prostate cancer. -
March 21, 2017
Study shows active surveillance preserves quality of life for prostate cancer patients
Faced with the negative quality-of-life effects from surgery and radiation treatments for prostate cancer, low risk patients may instead want to consider active surveillance with their physician, according to a study released Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). -
December 6, 2016
Lisa Kachnic ushers in a new era for radiation oncology
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December 6, 2016
News Around the Cancer Center
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September 22, 2016
New prostate cancer therapy investigated at VUMC
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is the world’s first site to treat a patient in the TULSA-PRO Ablation Clinical Trial (TACT), which employs an emerging therapy that uses MRI guidance and robotically driven therapeutic ultrasound to obtain precise prostate cancer tissue ablation.