Men with benign prostatic hyperplasia undergoing long-term treatment with 5α-reductase inhibitors are significantly more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those receiving the α-blocker tamsulosin, population-based study data show.
Positron emission tomography using 68gallium-labeled ligands of the prostate-specific membrane antigen is accurate, reproducible, and safe in localizing biochemically recurrent prostate cancer, according to the results of a prospective trial.
Research reported at the AACR Annual Meeting 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, shows that the incidence of prostate cancer and associated mortality has generally declined or remained steady in most of the countries with available data.
Supplementing androgen deprivation therapy with apalutamide improves metastasis-free survival in patients with the luminal and basal subtypes of nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, indicates an analysis of the randomized SPARTAN trial.
Among men initiating abiraterone acetate for advanced prostate cancer, the mortality risk may be higher for those with versus without pre-existing cardiovascular disease, suggests a real-world study presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.