Body Scans and Other Predictive Factors
While multiparametric MRI and color Doppler ultrasound are excellent tools for monitoring disease inside the prostate, scanning the rest of the body for cancer that may have spread to the lymph nodes or bones is also critical. Body scans are necessary for every Stage of Blue except Sky...
Introduction to Azure | High Risk Prostate Cancer
The official medical terminology used by doctors for Azure is “High-Risk.” Criteria for a man to be in Azure are...
Azure - High Risk Prostate Cancer
With Azure, the first step is to make sure no detectable metastases exisit outside the pelvic lymph nodes. Since scanning technology is far from perfect, questionable lesions are often detected by a bone scan. These can be further evaluated with...
Unorthodox Therapies for High Azure
In a large randomized trial called STAMPEDE, men with High-Azure showed a survival improvement when six cycles of Taxotere was added to TIP plus radiation compared to men treated with TIP plus radiation without...
Reducing the Side Effects of TIP
Blocking testosterone, a hormone that induces libido, strength, endurance, emotional stability, and potency creates all kinds of side effects.