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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...

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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...

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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...

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