Informed Prostate Cancer Patient Support

Julian Kenyon was interviewed by the BBC Inside Out programme in 2003 Doctor is struck off for trying to sell unproven treatments to patient with advanced cancer | The BMJ bmj.com Clare Dyer   A doctor who put pressure on a patient with advanced cancer to pay £13,000 for alternative treatments, including sound and light therapy, has been struck off. Julian Kenyon, 77, ran the former Dove Clinic, a private health centre at Twyford, Hampshire . News BMJ 2024 ; 385 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1192 (Publi...

    The Long-Term Risks of Metastases in Men on Active Surveillance for Early Stage Prostate Cancer Summary The study analyzed the long-term outcomes of 2,155 men with favorable-risk prostate cancer managed with active surveillance in the Canary Prostate Active Surveillance Study (PASS). Key findings after 10 years of follow-up include: 43% of patients had biopsy grade reclassification, and 49% received treatment. Patients treated after confirmatory biopsies (median 1.5 years) had a 5-year recurrence rate of 11%, while those treated after subsequent surveillance biopsies (median 4.6 years) had a recurrence rate of 8%. 21 patients (1%) developed metastatic cancer, and 3 died of prostate cancer. The estimated unfavorable outcomes were: overall mortality was (5.1%) 10-year rates of metastasis (1.4%),  prostate cancer-specific mortality (0.1%) The results suggest that protocol-directed active surveillance with regular PSA exams and prostate biopsies is a safe and effective ma...

Clinical and histopathological parameters in transrectal ultrasound‐guided biopsies associated with tumor upgrading after radical prostatectomy: A comparative analysis of risk groups - Ozkaya - The Prostate - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com Mustafa Ozkaya MD Summary In simple terms, this study looked at factors that might predict if a man's prostate cancer is worse than originally thought based on the initial biopsy. They studied 205 men diagnosed with prostate cancer who later had their prostate removed. Key takeaways: - Men were classified as low, intermediate, or high risk. High risk men tended to be older with higher PSA levels (a blood test for prostate cancer). - About half had abnormal cells called HGPIN in non-cancerous parts of their biopsy. This was more common in low and intermediate risk men. - After surgery, the cancer grade was often worse than the biopsy suggested, especiall...