New data now show that perioperative systemic therapy with apalutamide can improve outcomes after radical prostatectomy.

Radical prostatectomy is potentially curative in patients with high-risk localized or locally advanced prostate cancer; however, relapse occurs within 5 years in up to 50% of patients. We ...

A prostatectomy is surgery to partially or completely remove the prostate gland to treat conditions such as prostate cancer or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). A radical prostatectomy is the ...

Data from the PROTEUS trial showed that adding a hormone-blocking pill called apalutamide to standard hormone therapy, both ...

The most common surgery for prostate cancer is a radical prostatectomy. This surgery involves taking out the entire prostate gland, some lymph nodes and other nearby tissue, like the seminal vesicles ...

Compared with patients receiving hormone therapy alone, patients were nine times more likely to have little to no cancer remaining in the prostate after surgery, with a 20 percent reduction in the ris ...

Stereotactic body radiotherapy as salvage therapy after radical prostatectomy was well tolerated. Toxic effects were comparable to a historical cohort of patients receiving conventionally fractionated ...

Surgery reduced the risk of cancer death among men with de novo oligometastatic prostate cancer receiving systemic therapy. The addition of radical prostatectomy (RP) to best initial systemic therapy ...

The probability of surgical success with telesurgery for radical prostatectomy and partial nephrectomy for small renal masses was non-inferior to local robotic surgery in a small randomized trial. The ...

High-risk localized and locally advanced prostate cancer patients treated with apalutamide—a next generation neoadjuvant androgen-receptor pathway inhibitor (ARPI)—plus hormone therapy before and ...

Radical prostatectomy does not ensure a cure, with one in three men experiencing cancer recurrence and elevated PSA levels within 10 years post-surgery. Significant side effects of prostate removal ...

Advances in radiotherapy are rapidly transforming how prostate cancer is treated, offering patients more precise, less invasive options that can fit more easily around everyday life ...