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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to evaluate a new counseling tool for patients deciding whether or not to undergo prostate cancer screening. This screening decision aid is a computer program that provides individual patients estimates of their risks of prostate cancer diagnosis, prostate cancer related death, or death from any cause. The researchers are evaluating whether or not patients find this screening decision aid helpful. As part of this study, participants will be asked for their response on questionnaires. If patients find the screening decision aid helpful, the researchers will make it available at other clinic locations.
The overall goal of this pilot project is to test the hypothesis that a decline in muscle strength precedes the decline in bone strength in men undergoing androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer. The investigators will measure changes in serum biomarkers involved in muscle-bone crosstalk, anatomic changes in muscle and bone structure and strength that could ultimately contribute to fractures. The findings from this research will inform design of interventions to reduce falls and hip fractures in patients undergoing ADT as well as application to broader populations of at risk patients.
Gold markers implanted in the prostate are used frequently for position verification of the prostate during external-beam radiotherapy. By using the markers as a surrogate for the prostate itself, not only set-up errors, but also the internal motion of the prostate relative to the bony anatomy can be identified. It is thus believed that escalated dose marker guided radiotherapy should result in better biochemical control compared to conventional external beam radiotherapy, with a similar or lower incidence of toxicity. However, clinical data to support this is still limited. The purpose of this study is to directly compare late toxicity as well as biochemical control between patients treated with dose escalated marker guided radiotherapy versus conventional dose non-marker guided radiotherapy who has otherwise been treated with similar radiotherapy planning techniques and equipment. Prostate magnetic resonance imaging has undergone several technical improvements and shows promises for prostate tumor detection and localization. In addition to morphological information, magnetic resonance imaging allows an estimation of physiological properties of tissues. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging is sensitive to restriction of diffusion of water molecules, and dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging can analyze tissue micro vascular properties. Multi para metric magnetic resonance imaging combining Diffusion-weighted and Dynamic contrast enhanced has demonstrated its value in distinguishing malignant from benign prostate tissue. Higher radiation dose levels were consistently associated with improved biochemical control outcomes and reduction in distant metastases. Radiation dose was one of the important predictors of long-term biochemical tumor control. Dose levels < 70.2 Grey and 70.2-79.2 Grey were associated with 2.3 and 1.3-fold increased risks of pro static specific antigen relapse compared with higher doses. However, further dose escalation to the whole gland is limited due to an unacceptable high risk of acute and late toxicity. Moreover, local recurrences often originate at the location of the macroscopic tumor, so boosting the radiation dose at the macroscopic tumor within the prostate might increase local control. A reduction of distant metastases and improved survival can be expected by reducing local failure. Treating the dominant focus or boosting the dose to this area while reducing the dose to as much healthy tissue as possible has significant potential for improving treatment.
Exposure to radiation can impact immune cells that are present in the blood, such as lymphocytes. It is hypothesized that larger radiation fields and/or longer courses of radiation, result in greater decrease in immune cells. To test this hypothesis, investigators will take blood samples from subjects undergoing two different standard of care radiation regimens for prostate cancer, and subjects undergoing two different standard of care regimens for breast cancer.
Prognostic interest of bone scintigraphy in bone metastatic prostate carcinoma (BMPC) has been shown. Recent technological advances allow to perform quantitative bone SPECT-CT in routine practice. The aim of this study is to assess the prognostic interest of quantitative bone SPECT-CT in BMPC.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men over 50 years old and the third leading cause of cancer death. Because of the variety of prostate cancers, different treatments exist. Several criteria guide this management in daily practice: PSA level; TNM stage (digital rectal examination, trans-rectal ultrasound and classical visual imaging) and pathological differentiation with the Gleason score, to which can be added other prognostic criteria: growth and doubling time of the serum PSA, number of positive biopsies and percentage of cancer lesions by biopsy. Functional imaging by PET and MRI is increasingly used in daily clinical practice to characterize prostate cancer, either during initial discovery or during recurrence. In this context, it is the qualitative visual analysis that is mainly used. Quantitative image analysis could add new criteria to guide patient management. Consequently, the objective of this study were: - Optimization of 18F-choline PET/CT Acquisition in Prostate Cancer - Comparison the quantitative parameters obtained by 18F-Choline PET / CT and both perfusion MRI and histological parameters.
To investigate the utility of fluciclovine F 18 for evaluation for metastatic disease in men undergoing laser focal therapy of prostate cancer and the impact on inclusion for a focal therapy cohort.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate clinical significance of low pressure pneumoperitoneum during robotically assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP).
This clinical trial studies how well 68Ga-PSMA-11 positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) works in imaging patients with intermediate or high risk prostate cancer before surgery. Diagnostic procedures, such as PET/CT scans, may help find and diagnose prostate cancer and find out how far the disease has spread.
The aim of the study is to evaluate the impact of early deep venous complex ligation (eDVCL) in patients affected by clinically localized prostate cancer (PCa) undergoing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy with or without pelvic lymph node dissection. Overall, 312 patients will be randomized to the standard technique vs. eDVCL. The primary endpoint is represented by early urinary continence recovery. The secondary endpoints are perioperative outcomes, erectile function recovery and positive surgical margins.