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Chemoprevention of prostate cancer: an updated viewEric A Klein
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Desk Q10 1, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44122, USA
World J Urol 30:189-94. 2012..To place chemoprevention of prostate cancer in current clinical context...
Characterization of antibodies elicited by XMRV infection and development of immunoassays useful for epidemiologic studiesXiaoxing Qiu
Infectious Diseases R and D, Abbott Diagnostics, 100 Abbott Park Rd, Abbott Park, IL 60064, USA
Retrovirology 7:68. 2010..Development of assays to detect XMRV-specific antibodies would greatly facilitate such studies. However, the nature and kinetics of the antibody response to XMRV infection have yet to be determined...
Locally advanced prostate cancerE A Klein
Urological Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Curr Treat Options Oncol 2:403-11. 2001..However, the optimal form of aggressive therapy for these patients is unknown...
Outcomes for intermediate risk prostate cancer: are there advantages for surgery, external radiation, or brachytherapy?Eric A Klein
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Urol Oncol 27:67-71. 2009..The results suggest similar short-term survival but domain-specific effects on QOL after treatment with radical prostatectomy, brachytherapy, or external beam radiotherapy...
What's new in prostate cancer screening and prevention?Eric A Klein
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Q10 1, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Cleve Clin J Med 76:439-45. 2009..Two large trials of screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) measurements came to seemingly opposite conclusions. Furthermore, a large trial of selenium and vitamin E found that these agents have no value as preventive agents...
Genetic susceptibility and oxidative stress in prostate cancer: integrated model with implications for preventionEric A Klein
Section of Urologic Oncology, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44122, USA
Urology 68:1145-51. 2006
The selenium and vitamin E cancer prevention trialEric A Klein
Section of Urologic Oncology, Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, OH 44195, Cleveland, USA
World J Urol 21:21-7. 2003....
Inflammation, infection, and prostate cancerEric A Klein
Glickman Urologic and Kidney Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Curr Opin Urol 18:315-9. 2008..Recent evidence suggesting that inflammation and infection play a role in the etiology of prostate cancer, and the discovery of a novel virus in men with a genetic susceptibility to prostate cancer is reviewed...
SELECT: the selenium and vitamin E cancer prevention trialEric A Klein
Section of Urologic Oncology, Department of Urology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
Urol Oncol 21:59-65. 2003..SELECT is a randomized, prospective, double-blind study designed to determine if selenium and vitamin E can reduce the risk of prostate cancer among healthy men...
Localized prostate cancer: radiation or surgery?Eric A Klein
Section of Urology Oncology, Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Desk A100, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Urol Clin North Am 30:315-30, ix. 2003..The available data suggest that these two modalities provide similar rates of cancer control at 10 years, and that except for the youngest patients, choice of therapy should be based on toxicity and QOL issues...
Chemoprevention of prostate cancerEric A Klein
Section of Urologic Oncology, Glickman Urological Institute and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Annu Rev Med 57:49-63. 2006..The current body of evidence is insufficient to make a routine recommendation of any dietary or nutritional supplement for the prevention of prostate cancer...
Update on chemoprevention of prostate cancerEric A Klein
Section of Urologic Oncology, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Curr Opin Urol 14:143-9. 2004..This overview summarizes the results of that trial, the design of other large-scale trials, and advances in understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the effect of other promising agents...
Can prostate cancer be prevented?Eric A Klein
Section of Urologic Oncology, Glickman Urological Institute
Nat Clin Pract Urol 2:24-31. 2005..Ultimately, the adoption of a preventive strategy hinges on its potential benefits weighed against the potential risks of the specific agents used...
Chemoprevention of prostate cancerEric A Klein
Section of Urologic Oncology, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 54:1-10. 2005....
Vitamin E and the risk of prostate cancer: the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT)Eric A Klein
Department of Urology, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
JAMA 306:1549-56. 2011..Longer follow-up and more prostate cancer events provide further insight into the relationship of vitamin E and prostate cancer...
Assessing benefit and risk in the prevention of prostate cancer: the prostate cancer prevention trial revisitedEric A Klein
Section of Urologic Oncology, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
J Clin Oncol 23:7460-6. 2005....
Surgeon experience is strongly associated with biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy for all preoperative risk categoriesEric A Klein
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Urol 179:2212-6; discussion 2216-7. 2008..In the current study we determined whether the effects of the learning curve are modified by patient risk, as defined by preoperative tumor characteristics...
Selenium and vitamin E cancer prevention trialEric A Klein
Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1031:234-41. 2004..SELECT is the second large-scale study of chemoprevention for prostate cancer. Enrollment began in 2001, with final results anticipated in 2013...
Age and PSA predict likelihood of organ-confined disease in men presenting with PSA less than 10 ng/mL: implications for screeningMichael Aleman
Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Urology 62:70-4. 2003..These observations suggest that younger men with a lower PSA are more likely to have organ-confined and curable disease at diagnosis. This information has important implications for counseling and screening...
PSA bounce predicts early success in patients with permanent iodine-125 prostate implantChandrika Patel
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Urology 63:110-3. 2004..A PSA bounce may be associated with improved bRFS but was not associated with any of the pretreatment clinical and dosimetric factors examined...
Perineural invasion on prostate needle biopsy does not predict biochemical failure following brachytherapy for prostate cancerChristopher J Weight
Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 65:347-50. 2006..45). PNI did not correlate with biochemical relapse free survival (p = 0.40). CONCLUSION: Perineural invasion is not a significant predictor of biochemical recurrence in patients undergoing brachytherapy for prostate cancer...
No difference in six-year biochemical failure rates with or without pelvic lymph node dissection during radical prostatectomy in low-risk patients with localized prostate cancerNivedita Bhatta-Dhar
Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Urology 63:528-31. 2004..Such patients can be spared the morbidity and cost of PLND without affecting the chance for cure...
Higher than standard radiation doses (> or =72 Gy) with or without androgen deprivation in the treatment of localized prostate cancerP A Kupelian
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 46:567-74. 2000..To study the effect on biochemical relapse-free survival (bRFS) and clinical disease-free survival of radiation doses delivered to the prostate and periprostatic tissues for localized prostate cancer...
Preoperative combined nested reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction for prostate-specific antigen and prostate-specific membrane antigen does not correlate with pathologic stage or biochemical failure in patients with localized prostate cancer unJohn Thomas
Urological Institute, Taussig Cancer Center, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
J Clin Oncol 20:3213-8. 2002..This assay has no clinical utility in this patient population...
Rates of biochemical remission remain higher in black men compared to white men after radical prostatectomy despite similar trends in prostate specific antigen induced stage migrationHadley M Wood
Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
J Urol 178:1271-6. 2007..Our hypothesis was that the gap in biochemical relapse-free survival between these groups would lessen in the later prostate specific antigen era due to catch-up awareness/availability of screening and treatment in the black population...
Prostate biopsy clinical and pathological variables that predict significant grading changes in patients with intermediate and high grade prostate cancerAyman S Moussa
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
BJU Int 103:43-8. 2009....
Radiation dose response in patients with favorable localized prostate cancer (Stage T1-T2, biopsy Gleason < or = 6, and pretreatment prostate-specific antigen < or = 10)P A Kupelian
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 50:621-5. 2001..e., Stage T1-T2, biopsy Gleason score (bGS) < or = 6, and pretreatment prostate-specific antigen (iPSA) < or = 10 ng/mL...
Phase II trial of neoadjuvant estramustine and etoposide plus radical prostatectomy for locally advanced prostate cancerP E Clark
Urology Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Urology 57:281-5. 2001..Additional study of this paradigm with other drug regimens is warranted...
Preoperative and postoperative nomograms incorporating surgeon experience for clinically localized prostate cancerMichael W Kattan
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Cancer 115:1005-10. 2009..The purpose of this study was to develop and internally validate nomograms to predict the probability of recurrence, both preoperatively and postoperatively, with adjustment for standard parameters plus surgeon experience...
Surgical management of prostate cancer: advances based on a rational approach to the dataAnoop M Meraney
Glickman Urological Institute A-100, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Eur J Cancer 41:888-907. 2005..Radical prostatectomy is also appropriate in selected patients with locally advanced disease and after failed radiation therapy...
Improved biochemical relapse-free survival for patients with large/wide glands treated with prostate seed implantation for localized adenocarcinoma of prostateAimee L Quan
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Urology 68:1237-41. 2006..0069 and P = 0.0255, respectively). No association was found between gland size/width and postimplant dosimetry. CONCLUSIONS: The results of our study have shown that implantation of large/wide prostates independently confers better bRFS...
Phase II trial of neoadjuvant docetaxel before radical prostatectomy for locally advanced prostate cancerRobert Dreicer
Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Urology 63:1138-42. 2004..Additional study of this paradigm with other agents alone and in combination with docetaxel seems warranted...
Phase II trial of neoadjuvant nab-paclitaxel in high risk patients with prostate cancer undergoing radical prostatectomyD R Shepard
Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Urol 181:1672-7; discussion 1677. 2009..The efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant albumin-bound paclitaxel (nab-paclitaxel, Abraxane), a novel nanoparticle based formulation, were assessed in patients with high risk, locally advanced prostate cancer...
Lack of pathologic down-staging with neoadjuvant chemotherapy for muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder: a contemporary seriesChristopher J Weight
Glickman Urologic and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195 0001, USA
Cancer 115:792-9. 2009..The outcome of NC and open radical cystectomy (RC) was evaluated in a contemporary cohort of patients in a tertiary referral setting...
Salvage radiotherapy for recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomyAndrew J Stephenson
Department of Urology, Sidney Kimmel Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
JAMA 291:1325-32. 2004..Selected patients with high-grade disease and/or a rapid PSADT who were previously thought to be destined to develop progressive metastatic disease may achieve a durable response to salvage radiotherapy...
Recurrence-free survival rates after external-beam radiotherapy for patients with clinical T1-T3 prostate carcinoma in the prostate-specific antigen era: what should we expect?Deepak Khuntia
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Cancer 100:1283-92. 2004..001). CONCLUSIONS: The most significant therapeutic factor affecting bRFS rates after RT was radiation dose, rather than AD therapy use or radiation technique...
Response of the primary tumor to neoadjuvant sunitinib in patients with advanced renal cell carcinomaAnil A Thomas
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
J Urol 181:518-23; discussion 523. 2009..We assessed the activity of neoadjuvant sunitinib on primary renal tumors in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma as well as the feasibility and safety of subsequent surgical resection...
Management of clinical stage I nonseminomatous germ cell testicular cancerToni K Choueiri
Department of Solid Tumor Oncology, Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195 0001, USA
Urol Clin North Am 34:137-48; abstract viii. 2007..For patients at high risk for relapse and who are not candidates for surveillance, we believe the evidence supports RPLND over primary chemotherapy...
Natural history of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy: risk assessment for secondary therapyMatthew N Simmons
Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue A100, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Eur Urol 51:1175-84. 2007..While a rising PSA level universally antedates metastatic progression and prostate cancer-specific mortality (PCSM), it is not a surrogate for these endpoints. Thus, the management of patients with BCR is controversial...
Dosimetric comparison of pre-planned and or-planned prostate seed brachytherapyD A Wilkinson
Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 48:1241-4. 2000..Computer generated treatment plans were used in both procedures...
Association between a CYP3A4 genetic variant and clinical presentation in African-American prostate cancer patientsP L Paris
Department of Cancer Biology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 44195, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 8:901-5. 1999..Among the patients, those who were homozygous for the CYP3A4 variant were more likely to present with clinically more advanced prostate cancer...
Aneusomy of chromosomes 7, 8, and 17 and amplification of HER-2/neu and epidermal growth factor receptor in Gleason score 7 prostate carcinoma: a differential fluorescent in situ hybridization study of Gleason pattern 3 and 4 using tissue microarrayM Skacel
Department of Anatomic, The Urology Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Hum Pathol 32:1392-7. 2001..Chromosome 7 abnormalities may play an important role in cancer progression in margin-negative patients. EGFR amplification was rare, suggesting that this oncogene is not altered at the gene copy number level...
Outcomes in patients with urothelial carcinoma of the bladder with limited pelvic lymph node dissectionNivedita Bhatta Dhar
Section of Urologic Oncology, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
BJU Int 98:1172-5. 2006....
Prostate cancer volume at biopsy predicts clinically significant upgradingFei Dong
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Urol 179:896-900; discussion 900. 2008..We identified clinical and pathological parameters that predict pathological upgrading in this population...
A case of spermatic cord teratoma in low-stage testicular cancer managed by surveillanceVairavan S Subramanian
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Nat Clin Pract Urol 5:220-3. 2008..Serologic relapse at 4 months after orchiectomy was successfully treated with bleomycin, etoposide and cisplatin (BEP) chemotherapy...
Limited pelvic lymph node dissection at the time of radical prostatectomy does not affect 5-year failure rates for low, intermediate and high risk prostate cancer: results from CaPSURERyan K Berglund
Section of Urologic Oncology, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
J Urol 177:526-29; discussion 529-30. 2007..We compared 5-year treatment failure rates in patients with low, intermediate and high risk disease who underwent radical prostatectomy with or without pelvic lymph node dissection...
The specific definition of high risk prostate cancer has minimal impact on biochemical relapse-free survivalCarvell T Nguyen
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Urol 181:75-80. 2009..Various schemes based on clincopathological criteria have been proposed to stratify cases by presumed recurrence risk. We determined whether survival outcomes are dependent on the specific definition...
Low testosterone and risk of biochemical recurrence and poorly differentiated prostate cancer at radical prostatectomyBrian R Lane
Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Urology 72:1240-5. 2008..The results from 3 retrospective studies have suggested that low pretreatment testosterone is an independent predictor of adverse pathologic features in patients with localized prostate cancer...
Clinical models for testing chemopreventative agents in prostate cancer and overview of SELECT: the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention TrialEric A Klein
Section of Urologic Oncology, Urologic Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Desk A100, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Recent Results Cancer Res 163:212-25; discussion 264-6. 2003....
Aggressiveness of familial prostate cancerPatrick A Kupelian
Glickman Urological Institute and Radiation Oncology Department, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:3445-50. 2006..To report on the aggressiveness of sporadic versus familial prostate cancer...
Nonseminomatous germ cell tumor after chemotherapy with residual mass invading the spine: part 2Ryan K Berglund
Section of Urologic Oncology, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Eur Urol 50:607-8. 2006
Peritumoral lymphatic invasion is associated with regional lymph node metastases in prostate adenocarcinomaAndres A Roma
Department of Anatomic Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Mod Pathol 19:392-8. 2006....
Continuing trends in pathological stage migration in radical prostatectomy specimensIthaar H Derweesh
Section of Urologic Oncology, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Urol Oncol 22:300-6. 2004..1% for 1987 to 1994 and 82.6% for 1995 to 2001 (P-value = 0.0022). PSA screening has resulted in a downward pathological stage migration. These observations demonstrate improved biochemical failure rates in more recently treated patients...
Laparoscopic radical cystectomy and continent orthotopic ileal neobladder performed completely intracorporeally: the initial experienceInderbir S Gill
Section of Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
J Urol 168:13-8. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Laproscopic radical cystectomy and orthotopic ileal neobladder performed completely intracorporeally are feasible...
Factors affecting recurrence rates after prostatectomy or radiotherapy in localized prostate carcinoma patients with biopsy Gleason score 8 or abovePatrick A Kupelian
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Cancer 95:2302-7. 2002..To review the biochemical recurrence-free survival (bRFS) rates of treatment with either external beam radiotherapy or radical prostatectomy in patients with biopsy Gleason score 8 or above in the prostate specific antigen (PSA) era...
Phase II trial of GM-CSF in advanced prostate cancerR Dreicer
Department of Hematology Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA
Invest New Drugs 19:261-5. 2001..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the activity of granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor in a less heavily pretreated population...
Preliminary observations of single-agent docetaxel as neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced prostate cancerR Dreicer
Department of Hematology/Oncology, Taussig Cancer Center and the Urologic Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Semin Oncol 28:45-8. 2001..The neoadjuvant use of investigational cancer therapies may allow for relatively rapid assessment of their antitumor activity...
SELECT: the next prostate cancer prevention trial. Selenum and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention TrialE A Klein
Section of Urologic Oncology, Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Urol 166:1311-5. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: SELECT is the second large-scale study of chemoprevention for prostate cancer. Enrollment in the study is planned to begin in 2001 with final results anticipated in 2013...
Use of nomograms for early detection in prostate cancerDevon C Snow
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
J Natl Compr Canc Netw 8:271-6. 2010..This article discusses the rational for the use of nomograms and the advantages and limitations for the most commonly used nomograms...
Paracolic recurrence of stage I seminomaLouis Kantzavelos
Section of Urologic Oncology, Glickman Urologic Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Urology 62:145. 2003..We describe a paracolic recurrence outside of the standard radiation field of a low-stage pure seminoma that was managed by chemotherapy and surgical excision, rendering the patient disease free with short-term follow-up...
The Epstein criteria predict for organ-confined but not insignificant disease and a high likelihood of cure at radical prostatectomyMichael C Lee
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Eur Urol 58:90-5. 2010..Few reports attempt to validate the role of Epstein criteria in selecting patients for an active surveillance protocol...
Predicting the outcome of salvage radiation therapy for recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomyAndrew J Stephenson
Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195 0001, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:2035-41. 2007..We developed a nomogram to predict the probability of cancer control at 6 years after SRT for PSA-defined recurrence...
The importance of serum prostate-specific antigen testing frequency in assessing biochemical and clinical failure after prostate cancer treatmentJay P Ciezki
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Urology 75:467-71. 2010..To assess the relationship between prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing frequency and biochemical failure (bF) and clinical failure (cF)...
Impact of biochemical failure on overall survival after radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer in the PSA eraPatrick A Kupelian
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 52:704-11. 2002..To study the impact of biochemical failure on overall survival rates during the first 10 years after definitive radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer...
Limited pelvic lymph node dissection does not improve biochemical relapse-free survival at 10 years after radical prostatectomy in patients with low-risk prostate cancerChristopher J Weight
Section of Urologic Oncology, Glickman Urologic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Urology 71:141-5. 2008..To compare the long-term differences in actuarial biochemical relapse-free survival rates from a contemporary series of patients who underwent radical prostatectomy with and without pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND)...
Pathological aggressiveness of prostatic carcinomas related to RNASEL R462Q allelic variantsBenjamin T Larson
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Urol 179:1344-8. 2008..We assessed a series of men undergoing radical prostatectomy for clinical and pathological measures of tumor aggressiveness according to the RNASEL R462Q genotype...
Brachytherapy or surgery? A composite viewJay P Ciezki
Glickman Urologic and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Oncology (Williston Park) 23:960-4. 2009..This review will focus the comparison on toxicity, the "soft" endpoints of biochemical relapse-free survival and clinical relapse-free survival, and the "hard" endpoint of prostate cancer-specific mortality...
Epidermoid cyst of the testicleArmine Karapetian Smith
Cleveland Clinic, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Urology 74:544. 2009..We report on a case of testicular mass with classic radiographic appearance for epidermoid cyst...
Podocalyxin variants and risk of prostate cancer and tumor aggressivenessGraham Casey
Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Hum Mol Genet 15:735-41. 2006..48, 95%CI=1.02-2.14, P=0.04). These results implicate PODXL as a candidate prostate cancer tumor aggressiveness gene mapping to chromosome 7q32-q33...
Phase II trial of GM-CSF + thalidomide in patients with androgen-independent metastatic prostate cancerRobert Dreicer
Department of Hematology Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
Urol Oncol 23:82-6. 2005..We performed a Phase II trial of this combination to assess its toxicity and potential utility as an immunomodulatory approach to management of advanced prostate cancer...
Radical prostatectomy as primary treatment modality for locally advanced prostate cancer: a prospective analysisRyan K Berglund
Section of Urologic Oncology, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Urology 67:1253-6. 2006..Furthermore, RP results in short-term biochemical recurrence-free survival similar to that of combined radiotherapy and androgen ablation...
PSA kinetics after prostate brachytherapy: PSA bounce phenomenon and its implications for PSA doubling timeJay P Ciezki
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 64:512-7. 2006..To analyze prostate-specific antigen (PSA) kinetics in patients treated with prostate brachytherapy (PI) with a minimum of 5 years of PSA follow-up...
The human retrovirus XMRV in prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndromeRobert H Silverman
Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Nat Rev Urol 7:392-402. 2010..Emerging science surrounding XMRV is contributing to our knowledge of retroviral infections while focusing intense interest on two major human diseases...
Association of body mass index with prostate cancer biochemical failureDavid Ly
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Urol 183:2193-9. 2010..We determined whether there is an association between body mass index and biochemical failure in men treated for low and intermediate risk prostate cancer with various treatment modalities...
RNASEL Arg462Gln variant is implicated in up to 13% of prostate cancer casesGraham Casey
Department of Cancer Biology, ND50, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Nat Genet 32:581-3. 2002..Men that are heterozygous with respect to the mutated allele have 50% greater risk of prostate cancer than non-carriers, and homozygotes have more than double the risk...
Five year biochemical recurrence free survival for intermediate risk prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy, external beam radiation therapy or permanent seed implantationAndrew D Vassil
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Urology 76:1251-7. 2010....
Comparison of the efficacy of local therapies for localized prostate cancer in the prostate-specific antigen era: a large single-institution experience with radical prostatectomy and external-beam radiotherapyPatrick A Kupelian
Department of Radiation Oncology, Desk 728, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
J Clin Oncol 20:3376-85. 2002..To review biochemical relapse-free survival (bRFS) rates after either external-beam radiotherapy (RT) or radical prostatectomy (RP) for localized prostate cancer...
Analysis of T1c prostate cancers treated at very low prostate-specific antigen levelsAndrew J Stephenson
Section of Urologic Oncology, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195 0001, USA corrected
Eur Urol 55:610-6. 2009..5 ng/ml) given the 17% prostate cancer (pCA) detection rate at PSA of 1.1-2.0. The outcome of patients treated at PSA < or = 2.5 is poorly defined, and advantages associated with such an early diagnosis are uncertain...
Clinical and biological effects of neoadjuvant sargramostim and thalidomide in patients with locally advanced prostate carcinomaJorge A Garcia
Department of Solid Tumor Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Clin Cancer Res 14:3052-9. 2008..This study assessed the biological effects and safety of GM-CSF and thalidomide in patients with localized prostate cancer before radical prostatectomy...
Location, extent and number of positive surgical margins do not improve accuracy of predicting prostate cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomyAndrew J Stephenson
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Urol 182:1357-63. 2009..In a multicenter study we analyzed the predictive usefulness of several subclassifications of positive surgical margins...
A retrospective comparison of androgen deprivation (AD) vs. no AD among low-risk and intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients treated with brachytherapy, external beam radiotherapy, or radical prostatectomyJay P Ciezki
Department of Radiation Oncology, The Glickman Urological Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 60:1347-50. 2004....
Ejaculatory urine incontinence after radical prostatectomyRobert Abouassaly
Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Urology 68:1248-52. 2006..We attempt to further describe and assess the phenomenon of urinary incontinence with ejaculation in a series of patients...
Chemoprevention of prostate cancerAndrew J Stephenson
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Desk Q10 1, Cleveland, OH 44195 0001, USA
Urol Clin North Am 37:11-21, Table of Contents. 2010..5alpha-reductase inhibitors represent an effective primary prevention strategy, and these agents should be used more liberally for the prevention of prostate cancer, particularly in high-risk patients...
Alterations of transforming growth factor beta receptor II, insulin growth factor receptor II genes in microsatellite unstable prostate carcinomasNandan Bhattacharyya
Department of Cancer Biology, NB40, Lerner Research Institute, Department of Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Oncol Rep 11:231-6. 2004..On the other hand, 4 tumors showed changes within the 5CT repeats. In addition, 3 tumors showed another novel insertion of C within the CT repeats...
Complete resection of seminal vesicles at radical prostatectomy results in substantial long-term disease-free survival: multi-institutional study of 6740 patientsAngelo Baccala
Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44122, USA
Urology 69:536-40. 2007..To estimate the disease-specific survival of patients with complete removal of the seminal vesicles (SVs) at radical prostatectomy and to develop a nomogram for the prediction of SV invasion (SVI)...
Defining the optimal treatment for clinical stage I nonseminomatous germ cell testicular cancer using decision analysisCarvell T Nguyen
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave, Desk Q10, Cleveland OH, 44195 0001, USA
J Clin Oncol 28:119-25. 2010..Surveillance was the preferred intervention for all except those patients at high risk for relapse...
Neoadjuvant docetaxel treatment for locally advanced prostate cancer: a clinicopathologic studyCristina Magi-Galluzzi
Department of Anatomic Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Cancer 110:1248-54. 2007..The objective of the current study was to determine the histologic and molecular changes that occurred in patients with high-risk, localized prostate cancer (PCa) after neoadjuvant docetaxel chemotherapy...
Surgical management of low-stage nonseminomatous germ cell testicular cancerAndrew J Stephenson
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195 0001, USA
BJU Int 104:1362-8. 2009..The therapeutic efficacy of laparoscopic RPLND is not proven and currently should be considered a staging procedure only. Adjuvant chemotherapy after RPLND is typically restricted to patients with pathological stage N2-3 disease...
Comparison of biochemical relapse-free survival between primary Gleason score 3 and primary Gleason score 4 for biopsy Gleason score 7 prostate cancerMichael J Burdick
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44113, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 73:1439-45. 2009..Most of the present data regarding the PG of GS7 CaP refer to surgical specimens. Our goal was to determine whether the biopsy GS used at the time of medical decision making predicted for the biochemical outcome...
Management of erectile dysfunction following radical prostatectomyC D Zippe
Andrology Urology Research Laboratory, Urological Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, A100, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Curr Urol Rep 2:495-503. 2001..The potential impact of sildenafil and other new oral therapies should encourage urologists to continue to perform and perfect the nerve-sparing approach...
Family history of prostate cancer in patients with localized prostate cancer: an independent predictor of treatment outcomeP A Kupelian
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA
J Clin Oncol 15:1478-80. 1997..To determine if familial prostate cancer patients have a less favorable prognosis than patients with sporadic prostate cancer after treatment for localized disease with either radiotherapy (RT) or radical prostatectomy (RP)...
Short-course intensity-modulated radiotherapy (70 GY at 2.5 GY per fraction) for localized prostate cancer: preliminary results on late toxicity and quality of lifeP A Kupelian
Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 51:988-93. 2001..To present our preliminary observations on the late toxicity and quality of life (QOL) of patients treated with short-course intensity-modulated radiotherapy (SCIM-RT)...
Potential target populations and clinical models for testing chemopreventive agentsE A Klein
Section of Urologic Oncology, Department of Urology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Urology 57:171-3. 2001..These observations give rise to many potential clinical trials of specific agents. These trials should also include collection of data on potentially confounding influences on disease development and progression...
Periprostatic local anesthesia eliminates pain of office-based transrectal prostate biopsyJ S Jones
Urological Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 6:53-5. 2003..Periprostatic injection of local anesthetic essentially eliminates pain from prostate biopsy. Nerve-sparing radical retropubic prostatectomy is not more difficult as a result...
Defining sexual outcomes after treatment for localized prostate carcinomaLeslie R Schover
Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas77030 4009, USA
Cancer 95:1773-85. 2002..The objective of this survey was to identify factors associated with good sexual outcomes in a large group of survivors of localized prostate carcinoma...
Prevention of prostate cancer with finasteride: US/European perspectiveIan M Thompson
University of Texas Health Science Center, Division of Urology, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
Eur Urol 44:650-5. 2003..We herein amplify on the results of this trial to assist patients and physicians in reaching individualized decisions...
Effect of increasing radiation doses on local and distant failures in patients with localized prostate cancerPatrick A Kupelian
Department of Radiation Oncology, M D Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, FL 32806, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 71:16-22. 2008..To study the effect of radiation dose on local failure (LF) and distant metastasis (DM) in prostate cancer patients treated with external beam radiotherapy...
Radical prostatectomy, external beam radiotherapy <72 Gy, external beam radiotherapy > or =72 Gy, permanent seed implantation, or combined seeds/external beam radiotherapy for stage T1-T2 prostate cancerPatrick A Kupelian
Department of Radiation Oncology, M D Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, FL 32806, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 58:25-33. 2004....
First International Conference on Chemoprevention of Prostate Cancer. Overview consensus statementIan M Thompson
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas 78229, USA
J Urol 171:S3-4. 2004
Use of different definitions of biochemical failure after external beam radiotherapy changes conclusions about relative treatment efficacy for localized prostate cancerPatrick A Kupelian
Department of Radiation Oncology, M D Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, Florida 32806, USA
Urology 68:593-8. 2006..To report biochemical relapse-free survival (bRFS) after radiotherapy (RT) for localized prostate cancer with two separate failure definitions and compare the results with those after radical prostatectomy (RP)...
Monotherapy for stage T1-T2 prostate cancer: radical prostatectomy, external beam radiotherapy, or permanent seed implantationLouis Potters
Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at Mercy Medical Center, Rockville Centre, NY, USA
Radiother Oncol 71:29-33. 2004....
