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Imaging in Prostate Cancer

Prostate zonal anatomy is best demonstrated with MRI. On T2-weighted sequences, the normal prostate can be divided into the peripheral zone, which shows high signal intensity owing to its high water ...
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Focal nodular prostatic peripheral zone enhancement on CT to predict clinically significant (Gleason 4+3 and higher) prostate cancer.

Patterns and trends in management of locoregional prostatic adenocarcinoma with PSA ≥20 ngm/ML. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not ...
Renal & Urology News

Biochemical Recurrence Risk Differs by Prostate Cancer Zone

Finding is based on a meta-analysis of 14 high-quality studies involving 19,365 patients. Index prostate tumors located in the transition zone vs peripheral zone have a lower risk of biochemical ...
Renal & Urology News

MRI Results Might Permit Sparing of the Transitional Zone During Prostate Biopsy

Compared with peripheral zone prostate cancers, transitional zone cancers are less prevalent and tend to have more favorable pathological characteristics. It may be possible to spare sampling of the ...
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Location of local recurrence after MRI-guided partial prostate brachytherapy targeting only the peripheral zone: Implications for focal therapy.

Immune response with sipuleucel-T in patients (pts) with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC): Phase II ProACT study. Concurrent treatment with everolimus (RAD001) and ...