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Orlando, FL -- Older men with hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC) have a modest increase in risk of death compared with younger men, but only when age is considered as a [...]

Orlando, FL -- About two-thirds of patients with lymph node metastasis have a PSA level of However, Makoto Ohori, MD, associate professor of urology at Tokyo Medical University, and his [...]

Orlando, FL -- Gemcitabine (Gemzar) administered as an intravesical instillation appears to be well tolerated and to demonstrate modest efficacy in patients with stage Ta, grade I/II urinary bladder cancer, [...]

Atlanta -- Children treated with endoscopic intervention for vesicoureteral reflux continue to demonstrate cures that approach those of open surgery and have a high resolution rate after initial failure. In [...]

Atlanta -- A new algorithm for treating vesicoureteral reflux reflects the efficacy of, and expanding clinical experience with, endoscopic therapy for the condition, according to the pediatric urologists who developed [...]

body news Caffeine Addiction Caffeine Addiction As little as one cup of coffee a day can cause caffeine addiction, and so can two to three daily soft drinks, according to [...]

Mouthwash Merits Mouthwash that contains certain essential oils can reduce plaque and gum inflammation, a new study has shown. After six months, 76 people who brushed, flossed, and rinsed with [...]

Washington -- Clinical studies on the use of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) in men over age 65 years should move forward to determine the efficacy of testosterone therapy in older [...]

Poitiers, France -- Two recent studies of obesity and prostate cancer risk suggest that the interaction is a complex one. One of the studies goes so far as to suggest [...]

Milan, Italy -- A multidimensional model may be useful in predicting individual risk of acute urinary retention (AUR) in men with BPH. The model suggests that the risk of AUR [...]

Athens, Greece -- Microwave thermotherapy appears to be an effective, minimally invasive method for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia, according to new research out of Greece presented at the AUA annual [...]

Burlington, VT -- Irritative voiding symptoms are the most common problem associated with transurethral ethanol ablation of the prostate (TEAP) for symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia, affecting less than one-fourth of [...]

Los Angeles -- After a follow-up of almost 2 years, 70% of patients with stress urinary incontinence reported no repeat SUI after surgery with synthetic polypropylene sling material, according to [...]

St. Louis -- Escherichia coli that cause urinary tract infections may evade host defenses and therapy by forming intracellular biofilms, ultimately creating pod-like bulges in cells on the bladder surface, [...]

Chicago -- The traditional PSA cut-point of 4.0 ng/mL for recommending a biopsy to diagnose prostate cancer is controversial, and some researchers have recommended cut-points as low as 2.0 ng/mL. [...]

Chicago -- Women who undergo Cesarean section without a trial of labor appear to be significantly less likely to experience stress urinary incontinence than those who deliver vaginally or underwent [...]

Chicago -- A new study from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has demonstrated that positive surgical margins are associated with an increased risk of cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomy, and that [...]

Chicago -- Six weeks of antimicrobial therapy with levofloxacin (Levaquin) appears to improve symptoms of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men, although the benefits are not sustained, according to [...]

Chicago -- Two alpha blockers appear to have modest efficacy in treating chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, according to separate studies presented here at the AUA annual meeting. Aare Mehik, [...]

New Orleans -- Two image-guided radiotherapy strategies--external beam radiation therapy plus escalating high-dose rate brachytherapy boost, and external beam radiation therapy plus adaptive dose-escalation radiotherapy--can achieve significant dose escalation with [...]

New Orleans -- Long-term control of prostate cancer can be achieved in a relatively high-risk patient population using interstitial brachytherapy in combination with external beam radiation therapy, according to findings [...]

Chicago -- Leading a healthy lifestyle may stop or even reverse the progression of prostate cancer as measured by PSA levels in men undergoing watchful waiting, according to the findings [...]

New Orleans -- In patients treated with radiation therapy for prostate cancer, use of adjuvant androgen deprivation for 9 months or longer is associated with a greater than three-fold increase [...]

New Orleans -- In patients with clinically localized prostate cancer, an 8-month course of neoadjuvant hormone therapy (NHT) before radiation therapy lowers PSA levels and reduces tumor volume compared with [...]

Innsbruck, Austria -- Organ-preserving tumor enucleation appears to be effective in preventing disease recurrence and is safe in some patients with testicular tumors, according to findings of a retrospective evaluation [...]

Berlin -- Measuring levels of osteoprotegerin may be a simple and accurate way of detecting bone metastases in patients with prostate cancer, according to preliminary findings from Humboldt University, Berlin. [...]

Baltimore--For patients with total PSA levels in the range of 2.5 to 4.0 ng/mL, measuring the proportion of precursor forms of PSA (pPSA) relative to free PSA (fPSA) may significantly [...]

Orlando FL -- Measuring complexed PSA (cPSA) may provide improved specificity over total PSA (tPSA), according to the results of a multicenter trial. In their study, researchers from Innsbruck, Austria; [...]

Atlanta -- Positive surgical margin rates decrease as experience with robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) increases. In addition, formal laparoscopic training may not be necessary for optimizing some outcomes with the [...]

Atlanta -- Radical retropubic prostatectomy and external beam radiation therapy (XRT) show no significant difference in efficacy outcomes in men with clinically localized prostate cancer, according to findings from an [...]

Atlanta -- A study of patients receiving a double-cuff artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) shows encouraging short-term outcomes, but a second, longer-term study comparing single-cuff and double-cuff AUS indicates comparable outcomes [...]

Microarray technology allows the simultaneous monitoring of expression levels of thousands of genes and even whole genomes. But the experiments themselves represent only the opening act. The grand finale, so [...]

With the ever-increasing density of microarrays comes a need for more sensitive and high-throughput ways to read the resulting data. Arrays contain tens of thousands of 50- to 150-µm-diameter spots [...]

Microarray density continues to climb. In the past year, several companies have compressed the entire protein-coding portion of the human genome onto a single chip--that's some 30,000 to 40,000 unique [...]