DECISION MAKING STEPS on whether to submit for a prostate cancer screening PSA blood test and for any possible evaluation for prostate cancer and its treatment can be extraordinarily difficult. Not only is this true for individual men but for all physicians, simply because of the overwhelming amount of bias, misinformation, misrepresentation and the pervasive […]
Archives for February 2011
Index Lesion & Tumor Volume in Multifocal Prostate Cancer
When prostates removed surgically for prostate cancer are examined, 50-75% of these specimens contain more than one area or focus of cancer and called multifocal prostate cancer. In other words, only about 25% of men may have a unifocal prostate cancer lesion that may be suitable for focal therapy. In these prostates with multifocal cancer, […]