Surveillance has surged for favorable-risk prostate cancer, but focal therapy remains in use despite limited evidence and ...

Uptake of active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer is very high in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health system, according ...

Use of active surveillance for early prostate cancer increased sharply in the VA healthcare system over the past couple ...

Researchers leading a trial of active surveillance for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) have described early results as "reassuring" in a presentation at the 15th European Breast Cancer Conference ...

Patients with small or slow-growing tumors or those with comorbidities that make them higher risk are likely better candidates for active surveillance, explained Yuzhi Wang, MD, of Henry Ford Health ...

PARIS — Should clinicians promote active surveillance for non–muscle-invasive bladder tumors (NMIBT) and establish it as a comprehensive management approach, as with prostate and kidney cancers?

Although about 1 in 8 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime, only about 1 in 44 will die from it. Most men diagnosed with prostate cancer die from other causes, ...

Patients with favorable-risk prostate cancer “should be aware that they don't need treatment right away,” one expert said. Active surveillance has been shown to be an effective management strategy for ...

Advances in technology have made active surveillance in men with prostate cancer possible and prevented treatment for men who don’t need it, said Matthew Nielsen, MD, FACS, chair, Department of ...

Benefits of the Involvement of Dentists in Managing Oral Complications Among Patients With Oral Cavity and Oropharyngeal Cancer: An Analysis of Claims Data We used a 20% national sample of Medicare ...

Prostate cancer comes in all kinds of varieties, from serious and life-threatening cases all the way to the more common, nonaggressive forms that are typically age related. The disease tends to occur ...