Genitourinary Radiology: Page 45

Doctors are not informing patients of overdiagnosis risk
By Kate Madden Yee
Patients are not being told about the possibility of overdiagnosis and overtreatment as a result of cancer screening programs, and many say they wouldn't start a screening program if the overdiagnosis rate is too high, according to research published online in JAMA Internal Medicine.
October 21, 2013
Prostate cancer patients get too much radiation therapy
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Most men are receiving significantly more radiation therapy than needed to manage bone pain caused by advanced prostate cancer, according to a research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
October 14, 2013
ASTRO: Unstable chromosomes linked to poor response
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Detailed evaluation of a prostate cancer tumor biopsy may predict treatment outcomes for image-guided radiation therapy or surgery for prostate cancer.
September 24, 2013
Proton therapy groups praise GAO prostate cancer report
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Two groups representing the proton therapy community issued a statement backing a recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) that highlighted a trend toward increased physician self-referral for prostate cancer treatment.
August 6, 2013
GAO report points to prostate cancer IMRT self-referral
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A new report published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has linked the growth in prostate cancer-related intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) to physician self-referral.
August 1, 2013
SonaCare highlights U.K. urology study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
High-intensity focused ultrasound developer SonaCare Medical is highlighting a new study published online in BJU International on the use of its Sonablate 500 system to treat prostate cancer.
July 30, 2013
JAMA: Use of advanced radiation therapy grows
By Brian Casey
The use of advanced radiation therapy technologies grew rapidly between 2004 and 2009 for treating men with prostate cancer, particularly among those who might not be at risk of dying from the disease, according to an article published in the June 26 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
June 27, 2013
FDA clears Bayer's Xofigo
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the use of radium-223 dichloride to treat patients who have castration-resistant prostate cancer with symptomatic bone metastases and no known visceral metastatic disease.
May 15, 2013
Simultaneous PET/MRI most accurate for image alignment
By Wayne Forrest
In a comparison of hybrid imaging modalities, simultaneous whole-body PET/MRI is more accurate than retrospectively fused PET and MR images in abdominal organs and better than PET/CT in the urinary bladder, according to a study published online May 8 in Radiology.
May 14, 2013
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ASTRO, AUA issue prostate radiation therapy guideline
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the American Urological Association (AUA) have published a joint guideline for the practice of radiation therapy after prostatectomy for patients with and without evidence of prostate cancer recurrence.
May 6, 2013
C-11 acetate PET/CT helps patients before prostatectomy
By Wayne Forrest
PET/CT with carbon-11 (C-11) acetate is better at detecting lymph-node metastasis among patients planning for or completing radical prostatectomy than conventional imaging, and it can help predict treatment efficacy and survival, according to a study published in the May Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
May 5, 2013
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SonaCare to incorporate SmartTarget into its HIFU system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) developer SonaCare Medical plans to integrate SmartTarget image registration and fusion software from University College London into its HIFU system.
April 30, 2013
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