One downside of photodynamic therapy is that it's hard to get the light into deeper areas of the body, like the prostate gland. And the treatment works better in some people than in others.

Adding a focal boost to standard external beam radiotherapy improves biochemical disease-free survival in patients with ...

Review Article Published: April 2009 Imaging techniques for prostate cancer: implications for focal therapy Baris Turkbey, Peter A. Pinto & Peter L. Choyke Nature Reviews Urology 6, 191–203 ...

Combining the Stockholm3 test with an MRI-targeted biopsy approach for prostate cancer screening decreases overdetection while maintaining the ability to detect clinically significant cancer.

For patients facing advanced prostate cancer, the idea of surgery is not a one-size-fits-all solution. It’s a highly nuanced ...

Despite growing enthusiasm for this minimally invasive option for some men with prostate cancer, focal therapy is still not FDA-approved for prostate cancer and comes with high out-of-pocket costs.

The standard treatment for men with advanced prostate cancer is androgen-deprivation therapy. Androgens are hormones that fuel prostate cell growth; removing them with either drugs or surgery causes ...

Images in 69-year-old man with biopsy-confirmed Gleason score 7 (3+4) prostate cancer. (a) Pretreatment axial T2-weighted fast spin-echo MRI scan (repetition time msec/echo time msec, 3820/97 ...

Bob Stearns knew prostate cancer might be in his future. His father had died of it in 1992, and several other relatives had succumbed to the illness. His urologist, Dr. Larry Lipschultz, monitored ...

Scientists at Heriot Watt University developed a cost-effective technique for faster, more accurate prostate cancer detection using ultrasound equipment, with a 94% success rate in early trials.