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- (Length of Interview: 16 min) Charles Ryan, MD interviews Mark Scholz, MD, a medical oncologist in Marina del Rey, CA about his newest book The Key to Prostate Cancer: 30 Experts Explain 15 Stages of Prostate Cancer . This book equips patients with the understanding of where they stand in the spectrum of prostate cancer in terms of the different stages of the disease. The Key to Prostate Cancer: 3...
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- (Length of Discussion: 10 min) Edward (Ted) Schaeffer, MD, Ph.D. and Alicia Morgans, MD share a dynamic discussion on the risk strategy that may be employed for high-risk prostate cancer patients including oligometastatic disease. They share observations such as an increase in patient volume in their clinics of men with rising PSAs, high grade and locally advanced disease. In discussing the best w...
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- (Length of Discussion: 7 min) Stacy Loeb, MD, and Alicia Morgans, MD discuss conservative management, active surveillance, and management trends over time for low-risk prostate cancer in the Veterans Affairs Integrated Health Care System over the past decade. Biographies: Stacy Loeb, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Urology and Population Health at New York University (NYU), specializing in prosta...
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- Felix Feng, MD talks with Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH on identifying subsets of patients with prostate cancer that are most responsive to certain therapies so the physician can better individualize treatment options for patients. Topics they discuss include predictive biomarkers, hormone therapy, early initiation of hormone therapy for patients treated with surgery up front. In addition, they also dis...
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- (Length of Presentation: 16 min) Alicia Morgans, MD presents a Geriatric Assessment of Men with Prostate Cancer. She outlines the importance of geriatric considerations in prostate cancer and implementing it into the clinical management of patients. She details initial treatment decision making including staging the aging and estimation of remaining life expectancy. She also discusses consideratio...
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- Robert Hamilton, a Staff Urologic Oncologist from Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, Canada discusses radical prostatectomy for patients with oligometastatic prostate cancer. He overviews the clinical and biological rationale for radical prostatectomy in the oligometastases setting and highlights the role of novel imaging. He reviews four major PET tracers receiving a lot of attention: PS...
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- (Length of Discussion: 15 min) Lawrence I Karsh discusses SpaceOAR Hydrogel and it's use as a prostate-rectum spacer for treating prostate cancer with radiation therapy. He presents a study he took part in which aimed to evaluate the safety of the prostate-rectum spacer application technique as well as the following: the implant quality and resulting rectal dose reduction, acute and long term rect...
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- (Length of Discussion: 28 min) J. Kellogg Parsons, MD interviews Charles Ryan, MD on the release of his first book The Virility Paradox, The Vast Influence of Testosterone on our Bodies, Minds, and the World Around Us. Charles shares the inspiration that drove him to write The Virility Paradox, his take on the influence testosterone has played on evolution, its impact on the way we interact with o...
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- (Length of Discussion: 30 min) Charles Ryan, MD interviews Kellogg Parsons, MD, MHS, a surgeon and professor at the University of California, San Diego on his newest book, a medical thriller titled, Under the Knife . A novel for all audiences, this book incorporates the nexus of advances in biotechnology and robots and the role they play in medicine right now. It touches on the deep fears that man...
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- Dr Bernard Lee shares the background and details of the GayBiProstate Study with Dr. Alicia Morgans. He explains the GayBiProstate study was developed for a patient population which is historically under studied when it comes to quality of life. The study focuses on sexual function of gay and bisexual patients ages 18-75 with a history of prostate cancer who have received prostate cancer treatment...
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