[Hopespringpcsg] FW: What's New in PCa (March)

[Glen Tolhurst]

Hi all:

See below for a half dozen topics with links to articles.

As always, use the delete key for those not of interest you.

Thx.

Glen

 

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Sent: March 30, 2019 10:52 AM
To: PC Support Group
Subject: What's New in PCa (March)

 

Active Surveillance. Over the last few years, as Active Surveillance has
gained a higher profile, many of us including myself, in the Gleason 3+4
cohort (now called Gleason Grade Group 2) have wondered if we would have
been candidates for AS and been able to avoid the side effects that
inevitable accompany surgery or radiation.

This latest report
https://www.auajournals.org/doi/10.1016/j.juro.2018.09.042 concludes that
caution should be exercised in offering active surveillance to men with
prostate specific antigen greater than 15 ng/ml or Grade Group 2 prostate
cancer. This agrees with what I have read from Dr. Klotz at Sunnybrook, so
no reason for decision regret on that score.

 

PSA After Surgery. We all hope to hear that we have undetectable PSA when
that first test comes around 6 weeks after our surgery. This European
Urology report confirms that a detectable PSA result usually is a sign that
the cancer is not gone
https://www.europeanurology.com/article/S0302-2838(19)30094-6/fulltext and
will likely need follow-up radiation.

 

Reading this with your Morning Coffee?  (dare I say that coffee is the
flavour of the month?)

Scientists identify compounds in coffee which may inhibit prostate cancer 
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190318111955.htm?utm_source=fe
edburner
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eedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fhealth_medici
ne%2Fprostate_cancer+%28Prostate+Cancer+News+--+ScienceDaily%29>
&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fhealth_medicine%2Fpros
tate_cancer+%28Prostate+Cancer+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

 

Coffee Chemical Could Curb Prostate Cancer
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324730.php?utm_source=newsletter
<https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324730.php?utm_source=newsletter&
utm_medium=email&utm_country=CA&utm_hcp=no&utm_campaign=MNT%20Weekly%20%28no
n-HCP%20non-US%29%20-%20OLD%20STYLE%202019-03-20&utm_term=MNT%20Weekly%20New
s%20%28non-HCP%20non-US%29>
&utm_medium=email&utm_country=CA&utm_hcp=no&utm_campaign=MNT%20Weekly%20%28n
on-HCP%20non-US%29%20-%20OLD%20STYLE%202019-03-20&utm_term=MNT%20Weekly%20Ne
ws%20%28non-HCP%20non-US%29

 

and an earlier report on the same: Increased consumption of Italian-style
coffee appeared to have a protective effect against prostate cancer in a
large observational study." 

http://www.cancernetwork.com/news/coffee-had-protective-effect-prostate-canc
er-risk?GUID=933F4D61-8C8A-458A-85C3-D80E97B5FAF2
<http://www.cancernetwork.com/news/coffee-had-protective-effect-prostate-can
cer-risk?GUID=933F4D61-8C8A-458A-85C3-D80E97B5FAF2&XGUID=&rememberme=1&ts=05
052017> &XGUID=&rememberme=1&ts=05052017

 

What to Expect from Lupron Treatment. Not really anything new but a good
introduction to ADT (hormone therapy) for anyone about to start on this for
their PCa.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324480.php

 

More on ADT. If you want or need even more detail on ADT - what it is, how
it works and how to cope with side effects, then grab another coffee and
listen to this podcast
https://www.buzzsprout.com/188080/994097-remediating-hormone-therapy-adt-sid
e-effects-for-men-with-prostate-cancer?fbclid=IwAR12n8xFgQKjM7pGDM-AdjFxYnnX
CSCHydxMZ9aydb-v0nI7VFL0tq-hC68

Is it Benign or Aggressive? Work continues to answer that age-old question
about prostate cancer
http://www.prostatecancer.ca/Prostate-Cancer-Canada-Blog/Mars-2019/Hidden-cl
ue-in-blood-could-help-fight-aggressive-p?utm_source=twitter
<http://www.prostatecancer.ca/Prostate-Cancer-Canada-Blog/Mars-2019/Hidden-c
lue-in-blood-could-help-fight-aggressive-p?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=soc
ial&utm_campaign=research> &utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=research

 

 

 

 

 

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