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- Alicia Morgans and Matt Cooperberg discuss the controversial topic of how to optimally screen for prostate cancer based on the final recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Biographies: Matthew Cooperberg, MD, MPH, FACS, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH Further Related Content: Biomarker Debate: Adopt, Expand, Trust (PRO) HPFS Healt...
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- Daniel Spratt and Alicia Morgans discuss clinical outcomes of patients with Gleason score 9-10 prostate cancer after definitive treatment. Biographies: Daniel Spratt, MD, Tenured Full Professor of Radiation Oncology and a leader in Prostate and Spine malignancies. Chief of the Genitourinary Radiotherapy Program, Associate Chair of Clinical Research, and the Laurie Snow Endowed Research Professor i...
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- (Length of Discussion: 4 min) Dr. Sanford J. Siegel, CEO of Chesapeake Urology, has always been an advocate and supporter of prostate cancer screening in men, especially those at high risk. Since 2006, under his leadership, Chesapeake Urology has provided free screenings to Maryland men, mostly in Baltimore City. In this video, Dr. Siegel shares his own prostate cancer story. Biographies: Sanford...
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- (Length of Presentation: 20 min) Neal Shore, MD, FACS interviews E. David Crawford on a forthcoming paper he authored titled, A ndrogen Receptor–Targeted Treatments for Prostate Cancer: 35 Years’ Progress with Anti-androgens . This paper takes the historical approach in reviewing the treatment of prostate cancer, where we started in the 60's, where we are today and where we hope to be in the futur...
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- Prostate cancer in African-American men remains a major public health issue. Judd W Moul, MD, reviews the history of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force screening guidelines and highlights the US trends and patterns of disparities in cancer mortality among U.S. counties from 1980 to 2014. He touches on the molecular differences that may explain, in part, the aggressiveness of prostate cancer i...
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- (Length of Discussion: 10 min) David Penson and Alicia Morgans share views on the evolution of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, USPSTF's recommendations for PSA screening. What do the recent changes mean to the clinician and the patient when making individual decisions regarding screening. Biographies: David F. Penson, MD, MPH, is the Paul V. Hamilton, M.D. and Virginia E. Howd Ch...
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- (Length of Discussion: 15 min) Tom Keane and See-Tong Pang discuss the results of a prospective clinical study utilizing a novel circulating tumor cells (CTC) blood assay to clarify PSA results in 200 men who present with a PSA of 4ng/ml-10ng/ml. The CellMax CTC Platform is used to isolate CTCs to assess NPV and PPV for Gray Zone patients. Isolated CTCs may also be analyzed for the presence of pro...
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- (Length of Interview: 16 min) Charles Ryan, MD interviews Mark Scholz, MD, a medical oncologist in Marina del Rey, CA about his newest book The Key to Prostate Cancer: 30 Experts Explain 15 Stages of Prostate Cancer . This book equips patients with the understanding of where they stand in the spectrum of prostate cancer in terms of the different stages of the disease. The Key to Prostate Cancer: 3...
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- (Length of Discussion: 10 min) Edward (Ted) Schaeffer, MD, Ph.D. and Alicia Morgans, MD share a dynamic discussion on the risk strategy that may be employed for high-risk prostate cancer patients including oligometastatic disease. They share observations such as an increase in patient volume in their clinics of men with rising PSAs, high grade and locally advanced disease. In discussing the best w...
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- (Length of Discussion: 7 min) Stacy Loeb, MD, and Alicia Morgans, MD discuss conservative management, active surveillance, and management trends over time for low-risk prostate cancer in the Veterans Affairs Integrated Health Care System over the past decade. Biographies: Stacy Loeb, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Urology and Population Health at New York University (NYU), specializing in prosta...
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