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Filter by:Men with localized prostate cancer (PCa) are often treated with surgery, a treatment that is associated with high rates of side effects such as erectile dysfunction (ED) and urinary incontinence (UI) which impact quality of life. Yoga may improve control of UI and improve ED by bringing awareness to and strengthening the pelvic floor musculature. The randomized controlled pilot study is to assess the feasibility of an innovative hybrid (in-person and virtual) twice-weekly yoga program that includes a prehabilitation component and to obtain preliminary data that will help assess its potential effectiveness in alleviating PCa treatment symptom burden (primarily ED and UI). The long-term goal is to develop a scalable and sustainable yoga program that helps cancer survivors manage their treatment side effects.
Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer among Veterans and the second leading cause of male cancer death. Current methods of screening men for prostate cancer are inaccurate and cannot identify which men do not have prostate cancer or have low-grade cases that will not cause harm and which men have significant prostate cancer needing treatment. False-positive screening tests can result in unnecessary prostate biopsies for men who do not need them. However, new genetic testing might help identify which men are at highest risk for prostate cancer. This study will examine whether a genetic test helps identify men at risk for significant prostate cancer while helping men who are at low risk for prostate cancer avoid unnecessary biopsies. If this genetic test proves beneficial, it will improve the way that healthcare providers screen male Veterans for prostate cancer.
In this pilot study, the investigators will show feasibility of the NLP-based feedback system in 20 consultations of men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer. The investigators will recruit from the practices of up to 10 physicians who typically see these patients. The investigators will report the top five sentences from each consultation across key content areas (cancer prognosis, life expectancy, erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence, and irritative urinary symptoms) to both patients and physicians within 2 weeks of the consultation.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a 16-week, home-based, virtually supervised exercise program will slow cancer progression of prostate cancer among Black men with prostate cancer undergoing active surveillance. The name of the study intervention involved in this study is: Aerobic high-intensity interval training (HIIT) (training exercise intervention)
Clinical studies have shown that magnetic resonance imaging-guided transurethral ultrasound ablation (TULSA) of the prostate is safe and effective. In the TULSA procedure, prostate tissue is killed by heating with ultrasound. This clinical trial explores if adding drug therapy with Degarelix before TULSA has the potential to improve further the effectiveness of TULSA in the treatment of localized prostate cancer, especially for patients with more aggressive diseases.
This is an extension of an ongoing study. Preliminary results from the ongoing study indicate that the MyProstateScore 2.0 (MPS 2.0) Test is significantly improving early diagnosis of prostate cancer. This extension will allow us to ask the study participants in the ongoing study to share patient-level data for chart abstraction. The specific purpose of this study is to generate high-quality real-world data on the clinical utility of LynxDx's new MPS 2.0 test.
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the impact of a phone call before the simulation CT scan in management of care of patients with prostate cancer.
This study aims to assess the value of ultra-fast MRI sequences in the assessment of prostate cancer, compared to the full multiparametric/biparametric protocol as the clinical standard.
Today, many centers still perform Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) cognitive prostate biopsy. The efficacy of detecting clinically significant prostate cancer, which is thought to be due to the experience of the urologist who performed the sampling and the difference in experience of the radiologists who performed the Multiparametric Prostate Magnetic Resonance (MPMR) evaluation, has been reported between 25% and 34% in the literature. In order to eliminate this reporting and sampling difference, The goal of this interventional study is to compare the effectiveness of Multiparametric Prostate Magnetic Resonance (MPMR) Imaging routinely taken before biopsy with a single-center randomized and prospective study and prostate biopsies to be performed by the same urologist with the mapping technique created by a single genitourinary radiologist working in our center with standard cognitive prostate biopsy and to contribute to the literature Type of study: Clinical trial participant population: Male patients with elevated serum Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) or indicated prostate biopsy by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) imaging and underwent Multiparametric Prostate Magnetic Resonance (MPMR) before the procedure Participants will undergo transrectal prostate biopsy with or without mapping, Researches will compare to see if the cancer detection rates differ
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men. According to estimates by the American Cancer Society Prostate for 2022, about 268,490 men would be diagnosed with prostate cancer and 34,500 would die from the disease. Clinical evolution follows the clinical stages are: localized disease, biochemical recurrence after surgery or radiotherapy, and castration-sensitive or castration-resistant metastatic disease. Localized disease is often classified according to a risk stratification system, which includes assessment of the Gleason score, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) at diagnosis, number of involved fragments per disease at biopsy, and clinical T-staging. Gleason score greater than or equal to 8, PSA greater than or equal to 20 ng/dL at diagnosis, and/or involvement of the prostatic capsule or seminal vesicle are high-risk criteria for biochemical recurrence and later development of metastases, for which the standard treatment is radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy plus androgen deprivation therapy. Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is highly expressed on the surface of prostate cancer cells, with relatively low expression in normal tissue. PSMA has been explored as a target in imaging studies using positron emission tomography (PSMA-PET) to reveal occult metastatic disease, as well as a target in the development of PSMA-based treatments with radioligands. According to Hoffman et al., performing PSMA-PET demonstrated greater sensitivity (85% vs. 38%) and specificity (98% vs. 91%), and determined more changes in patient management (28% vs. 15% ) compared to conventional images. Other studies have also demonstrated the greater accuracy of PSMA-based radiotracers compared to conventional images. Finding strategies that increase PSMA expression is a necessity for patients with prostate cancer. According to researchers, high SUVmax values are associated with better outcomes in patients treated with 177-lutetium-PSMA-617. PSMA expression can be rapidly modulated by androgen suppression. The investigators understand that there is great potential to evaluate darolutamide as a PSMA expression enhancer. However, to date there are no prospective data evaluating the effect of ARSI in increasing PSMA expression in localized disease. Here the investigators propose a phase 2 study to investigate the efficacy of a limited course of darolutamide as a PSMA expression enhancer in men with localized prostate cancer according to conventional imaging. PSMA-PET/CT scans will be acquired before and after treatment with darolutamide, as detailed in the protocol. Slides of prostate biopsies and prostatectomies stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) will be reviewed by two pathologists to select the most representative tumor block. Immunohistochemical (IHC) reaction using standard protocols will be performed using an anti-PSMA antibody and intraprostatic anti-androgens. Gene expression analysis will be performed using RNA extracted from biopsies and prostatectomies and evaluated by a panel of over 300 transcripts. For methylation patterns, hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) slides from prostate biopsies and prostatectomies will undergo DNA extraction and evaluation of the methylation profile performed using a kit. It is expected to identify that treatment with darolutamide increases PSMA expression and that the biochemical mechanisms involved can be better evidenced.