If you are diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer, you usually have three treatment choices: monitoring (called active surveillance), surgery, or radiation therapy. Whole-gland ablation is an ...

Scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden recently reported that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could reduce overdiagnosis and thereby improve prostate cancer screening. Now, the same team ...

As a result, researchers have explored less invasive options that aim to treat the cancer while preserving quality of life. One such approach is TULSA, which uses real-time MRI guidance to deliver ...

Vipul R. Patel, MD, FACS, is a board-certified urologic surgeon, medical director of the Global Robotics Institute at AdventHealth, and medical director of urologic oncology at AdventHealth Cancer ...

Experts recommend regular screening to increase the chance of detecting prostate cancer early, when it is most treatable. (Dreamstime/TCA) Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in the ...

A new, pioneering procedure was used to treat a record number of prostate patients in a day. Frimley Health NHS Foundation trust were able to break their record thanks to the use of a robot-assisted ...

Approximately one in eight men will develop prostate cancer, which is the second-leading cause of cancer death in American men and typically affects patients who are 65 or older. Fortunately, the ...

Modern medical research shows that drug and surgical treatments for benign prostatic hyperplasia and chronic prostatitis carry high risks, while Dr Allen's Device, developed by Fine Treatment, an ...

Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a protein found in small amounts in your prostate gland. When you have prostate cancer, you have many times more PSMA than normal. This makes PSMA a good ...

The procedure allows doctors to check and see if they’ve removed all cancer cells while surgery is in progress If they have, they can spare the prostate nerves that are responsible for producing ...

Hormone treatment, also known as androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), is a cornerstone of treatment for advanced prostate cancer. Hormone treatment decreases prostate cancer growth by lowering ...