High-risk prostate cancer: from definition to contemporary management

PJ Bastian, SA Boorjian, A Bossi, A Briganti… - European urology, 2012 - Elsevier
… High-risk prostate cancer (PCa) is a potentially lethal disease. It is clinically important to
identify patients with high-risk PCa early on because they stand to benefit the most from curative …

Risk factors for prostate cancer

KJ Pienta, PS Esper - Annals of internal medicine, 1993 - acpjournals.org
… of prostate cancer. Together these data show an increased risk for the development of clinical
prostate cancer … It remains unclear if the current National Cancer Institute prostate cancer

Active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer worldwide: the PRIAS study

M Bul, X Zhu, R Valdagni, T Pickles, Y Kakehi… - European urology, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Overdiagnosis and subsequent overtreatment are important side effects of
screening for, and early detection of, prostate cancer (PCa). Active surveillance (AS) is of …

Human prostate cancer risk factors

DG Bostwick, HB Burke, D Djakiew… - Cancer …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
cancer in the … prostate cancer if they live long enough. This review is a contemporary and
comprehensive, literature-based analysis of the putative risk factors for human prostate cancer, …

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PH Gann - Reviews in urology, 2002 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Family history is also an important risk factor for prostate cancer, … the risk of prostate cancer
is profound, as is the frequency with which migrants from low- to high-risk areas adopt the risk

Assessing prostate cancer risk: results from the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial

IM Thompson, DP Ankerst, C Chi… - … the National Cancer …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… used to diagnose prostate cancer in the United States. Methods to integrate other risk
factors associated with prostate cancer into individualized risk prediction are needed. We used …

Assessing individual risk for prostate cancer

RK Nam, A Toi, LH Klotz, J Trachtenberg… - Journal of Clinical …, 2007 - ascopubs.org
… incorporating established risk factors for prostate cancer in … prostate cancer, and prostate
volume, we were able to improve the positive predictive value of PSA to detect prostate cancer

Focus on prostate cancer

W Isaacs, A De Marzo, WG Nelson - Cancer cell, 2002 - cell.com
… of prostate cancer in families, and family history of prostate cancer remains one of the most
consistent risk … the existence of high-risk alleles for prostate cancer, and twin studies have …

Family history and prostate cancer risk

SM Lesko, L Rosenberg… - American journal of …, 1996 - academic.oup.com
… family history of prostate cancer and the risk of this cancer in a … Cases were all incident
cases of prostate cancer in men younger … Prostate cancer risk was increased among men who …

Contemporary trends in low risk prostate cancer: risk assessment and treatment

MR Cooperberg, JM Broering, PW Kantoff… - The Journal of …, 2007 - auajournals.org
… and high risk prostate cancer at diagnosis, respectively. Figure 1 shows trends in the
distribution of patients among the risk groups. The proportion of patients at low risk almost doubled …