There are many benefits to living a healthy lifestyle, all of which can improve your body and your mind. Living a healthy lifestyle can even help mitigate disease – including some diseases you might be genetically predisposed to, such as prostate cancer.
According to the American Cancer Society, 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime. Currently, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, second only to lung cancer. And yet, despite these somewhat dire statistics, success rates for prostate cancer are actually higher than many other types of cancer.
According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the 2nd most common cancer in American men behind skin cancer. Prostate cancer is the 2nd leading cause of cancer death in men behind lung cancer. One man in 6 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime.
In recent years, recommendations for prostate cancer screening have been caught amidst growing controversy. The utility of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, the most prominent front-line screening exam for prostate cancer has been heavily critiqued. Meanwhile, numerous men present with incurable late-stage prostate cancer while men with low-risk, indolent disease receive treatment that offers little benefit in terms of health outcomes.
This is a guest blog post from Mark Scholz, MD. Dr. Scholz is a prostate cancer oncologist and a cofounder of the Prostate Cancer Research Institute. This blog post represents the perspective of Dr. Scholz. We hope you enjoyed this educational article.
This was originally posted at Prostate Snatchers: The Blog.
In a recent study, researchers looked into 12-year follow-up results to the Finnish Prostate Cancer Screening Trial to evaluate the relationship between prostate cancer screening and family history. Although family history is a known risk factor for developing prostate cancer, they curiously found no benefits to selectively screening men based on family history alone.
Recent research shows that new MRI-TRUS fusion biopsy can more effectively detect high-grade prostate cancers than conventional TRUS biopsy.
This is a guest blog post from Mark Scholz, MD. Dr. Scholz is a prostate cancer oncologist and a cofounder of the Prostate Cancer Research Institute. This blog post represents the perspective of Dr. Scholz. We hope you enjoyed this educational article.
New clinical imaging guidelines for the interpretation of prostate MRI exams have been released. A joint steering committee organized by the American College of Radiology, AdMeTech Foundation and European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR) developed Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) Version-2.
Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and MRI-guided prostate biopsy are emerging as useful applications in the detection of prostate cancer. Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsy, the current traditional method of diagnosis prostate cancer, can result in sampling errors that lead to delayed diagnosis or misclassification of cancers.
