The role of pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) in patients with localized prostate cancer remains controversial. Although guidelines are increasingly recommending extended PLND alongside radical ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) has an important role in staging and therapy of prostate cancer, especially for high-risk disease. A novel tool has been proposed to correctly predict the ...

The stage migration of prostate cancer has led to a decrease in the extent of lymph node dissection in patients who are considered to be at low risk of lymph node metastases. This approach is ...

Black Men with Low-Risk Prostate Cancer Produce Less PSA After 2 years, continence, potency, and freedom from recurrence were achieved in almost half of men who had extended pelvic lymph node ...

In 2D planning, the treatment field typically extends craniocaually from the L5-S1, disc space to the lower pole of the obturator foramen and laterally to 1–2 cm beyond the margin of the bony pelvis ...