The aim of the project is to test the efficacy of the couple - focused intervention cognitive existential couple therapy (CECT) on the psychological and social adjustment of men
with early stage prostate cancer and their partners.
Not exact matches
Dr Catherine Pickworth from Cancer Research UK, said: «This
early stage study adds to the growing evidence that some men
with prostate cancer could benefit from being given PARP inhibitors alongside hormone deprivation treatment.
«An estimated 220,000 men are expected to be newly diagnosed
with prostate cancer each year in the United States, and the majority will have
early -
stage disease at low risk for recurrence,» Lee said.
«Patients diagnosed
with early -
stage prostate cancer — and that's the vast majority of patients
with this disease — face many treatment options that are thought to be similarly efficacious,» said Ronald C. Chen, MD, MPH, UNC Lineberger member and associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology.
Prostate cancer is highly curable,
with a 94 percent 15 - year relative survival rate for
early stages.
For patients
with early -
stage cancer, this option avoids many of the side effects associated
with removing the
prostate or irradiating the entire gland.
For the study, UNC Lineberger researchers surveyed 1,141 men who were diagnosed
with early -
stage prostate cancer between January 2011 and June 2013.
This assessment may represent a powerful biomarker to predict cancer progression for men
with early -
stage prostate cancer.
«Patients diagnosed
with early -
stage prostate cancer — and that's the vast majority of patients
with this disease — face many treatment options that are thought to be similarly efficacious,» said Ronald C. Chen, MD, MPH, associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology.
These were men
with what's called PIN, which is like the
prostate equivalent of ductal carcinoma in situ in the breast — an
early stage of cancer.
For five years, the researchers followed 35 men
with localized,
early -
stage prostate cancer to explore the relationship between comprehensive lifestyle changes, and telomere length and telomerase activity.