Nearly 90% Free of Prostate Ca Progression With ADT, Pelvic Node RT Data also showed trend toward reduction in distant metastases Oct 22, 2018
Prostate RT Ups Overall Survival in Metastatic Disease Benefit limited to men with low disease burden Oct 22, 2018
Adding Radium-223 to Abiraterone No Help in Prostate Ca More fractures, deaths in patients with mCRPC and bone mets Oct 20, 2018
SBRT Doubles 5-Year Survival in Oligometastatic Cancers Most patients in phase II trial had up to three metastatic lesions Oct 17, 2018
Seeing Red: Can Excessive Viagra Dose Permanently Damage Vision? Report describes case of persistent colored vision disturbance Oct 08, 2018
High Anxiety with Active Surveillance in Prostate Cancer? Not Really In my case, the first week after diagnosis was bad, but that was it Sep 23, 2018
Cancer Linked to Infertility in Men and Women Assisted reproductive technology not to blame, researchers say Jul 03, 2018
Opinions Divided at AMA on Prostate Cancer Screening Resolution referred for further study Jun 13, 2018
Prostate Surgery and Outright Lies What happened to one patient with low-grade cancer pressured into the OR Jun 10, 2018
Upfront MRI Could Rule Out Prostate Ca in Most, Reduce Biopsy Need Less-costly biparametric MRI can spare men from TRUS biopsy Jun 08, 2018
Many with Metastatic Kidney Cancer Can Skip Surgery Overall survival with single-agent sunitinib better than with resection Jun 04, 2018
Phototherapy Delays Radical Prostate Cancer Tx Half as many conversions from surveillance at 4 years May 24, 2018
Prostatitis Symptoms Fall with PDE5 Blocker More relief with combo than with antibiotics alone May 23, 2018
Men Get Short Shrift in Fertility Assessments Misinformation about testosterone treatment may be an issue May 21, 2018
Assay May Help Avoid Needless Prostate Biopsies Distinguishes clinically significant from insignificant/benign disease May 19, 2018
Sorting Out Genomic Tests for Prostate Cancer Discordance between tests, with NCCN risk criteria May 18, 2018
Intravesical Gemcitabine Reduces Bladder Ca Recurrence Could be more feasible than mitomycin C May 09, 2018
Nerve-Sparing Prostatectomy Doesn't Help Everyone Benefits limited mainly to men with strong sexual function before surgery Apr 25, 2018
Slow Medicine: More on Prostate Cancer Screening; Simple Treatments for Nausea Also, a study quantifies waste in clinical practice Apr 13, 2018
DMAU Shows Promise as Oral Birth Control for Men Dimethandrolone undecanoate well tolerated as reversible contraceptive Mar 19, 2018 video
Steroids and Asthma; One-Time PSA: It's PodMed Double T! This week's topics include the dangers of e-cigarettes, steroids and asthma, five types of diabetes, and a single PSA measurement and outcomes. Mar 10, 2018 podcast
Reintervention Rates High for Sacral Neuromodulation Researchers report 'alarming' rates within 5 years of placement, and urge a device registry Feb 25, 2018
Survival Bump in Bladder Cancer with Keytruda But no outcome advantage for Tecentriq in metastatic urothelial cancer Feb 11, 2018
Time to Metastasis Prolonged in Castration-Resistant Prostate Ca Researchers found a 22-month improvement with enzalutamide Feb 09, 2018
Apalutamide Slows Metastasis in Prostate Cancer Two-year delay in metastatic progression with apalutamide Feb 05, 2018
FDA Panel: Two Thumbs Down for New Oral Testosterone Drugs Advisory committee unpersuaded by new trial data for Tlando, Jatenzo Jan 10, 2018
A Patient's Journey: And Now, a Word from a Pathologist Howard Wolinsky goes one-on-one with pathologist and blogger Lester Raff, MD Jan 02, 2018
A Patient's Journey: There's a Vitamin for That Howard Wolinsky may have the most expensive urine in Chicago Dec 15, 2017
A Patient's Journey: What Is 'Just Right'? In this installment of A Patient's Journey, Howard Wolinsky talks A1C with his primary care physician Nov 24, 2017
Stool Bacteria May Influence Tx Response in RCC Also, antibiotic use just before treatment may impact disease progression Nov 05, 2017
Surgery and Legislation: All in a Day's Work for Greg Murphy, MD 'I don't know how he does it' Sep 05, 2017
C-Section Now, Hysterectomy Complications Later? Higher risk of reoperation vs women with vaginal delivery Aug 09, 2017
Advanced Ca Patients Benefit from Online Symptom Reports Patient-reported outcomes tied to increased survival Jun 05, 2017
Abiraterone Combo: A New Care Standard in Prostate Cancer? Earlier treatment appears to improve survival in metastatic disease Jun 03, 2017
'A Very Dangerous Interpretation': What We Heard This Week Quotable quotes from 51˶'s sources May 19, 2017
Untreated Penile Curvature Gets Better Over Time Survey-based report offers insight on natural history of Peyronie's disease May 14, 2017