Only 31% of patients with prostate cancer receiving radiation therapy had a successful CT simulation on the first attempt, while more than half required multiple scans on the same day and nearly 17% ...

When planning for palliative radiotherapy, clinicians can forgo an additional CT scan on the same day as treatment and instead use a recent diagnostic CT scan, according to a results from a randomized ...

The therapeutic efficacy of radical prostatectomy and external beam radiation therapy in patients with histologic variants of prostate cancer. Perioperative outcomes from a randomized controlled trial ...

SAN DIEGO -- Using recent diagnostic CT scans instead of CT simulation scans to plan palliative radiation treatments can substantially reduce the time to treatment completion for cancer patients, the ...

Approximately 20% to 40% of men who have surgery for localized prostate cancer will see the cancer return within 10 years, often first detected by a rising PSA blood test. When this happens, doctors ...