his video is going to cover hormone blockade for prostate cancer for men in the Azure stage of prostate cancer. Azure is the high-risk more consequential type of prostate cancer. Men in Azure are going to get some form of hormone blockade in most cases. There is a higher risk of spots spreading outside the gland and this necessitates some sort of intervention or therapy that can circulate

Hi, I’m Dr. Scholz. I’m a medical oncologist specializing exclusively in prostate cancer, and another common question that I’m commonly asked is “Can I spread prostate cancer to my significant other through sexual contact?”

In this video we’re going to cover Azure otherwise known as high-risk prostate cancer. I’m always concerned about that terminology “high-risk” and that was one of the reasons for selecting colors to describe these different stages.  High risk of what? High risk of dying? Actually, not. The risk of succumbing to prostate cancer if you’re an Azure is maybe anywhere between 3-15% over the next fifteen

We’ve been going through a series of short videos about the management of Teal otherwise known as intermediate risk prostate cancer.  In this video we’re going to cover the comparison of all the different treatment options for Teal, and try to give you a little hierarchy—give you a kind of number 1, 2, 3 in terms of options that I would be thinking of if I was in this situation.  

This video is about radical prostatectomy for Basic-Teal prostate cancer, that is intermediate risk prostate cancer.  There are a number of options on how to treat Basic-Teal prostate cancer including seed implants, SBRT, proton therapy, cryotherapy—all kinds of things, but in this video we’ll just cover surgery. Surgery—the old stand by—radical prostatectomy is the oldest and most established type of therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer.  In general, I would say that it compares pretty poorly with

This video is going to cover primary hormone therapy for prostate cancer stage Teal or intermediate-risk.  We are in the middle of a series of videos that are covering different treatment options.  There are many options for Teal, and patients have a lot of choices and need to be good comparison shoppers.  

Hormone therapy (or TIP) is typically given in conjunction with

This video is about stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).  Radiation therapy when it’s delivered by a beam involves going to a specialized facility, sitting in front of a machine for a brief period of time on a daily basis (Monday through Friday) for a period of one or more weeks.  Traditionally radiation therapy required anywhere between 5-9 weeks of therapy. SBRT is different because

In this video we’re continuing our series of the PCRI staging guide.  In particular we are covering the Teal stage otherwise known as intermediate risk prostate cancer. Teal is a very broad base stage with some men who are in Low-Teal who can do active surveillance, and some men who are in High-Teal that need combination therapy.  In today’s discussion about proton therapy we’re talking typically about…

In these videos we’ve been going through a series on the Teal stage of prostate cancer otherwise known as intermediate risk.  Intermediate risk or Teal carries a very broad spectrum even though it’s only one of the five stages.  Teal is broken down into Low, Basic, and High.  Today’s video is covering what we call combination therapy.  Combination therapy for prostate cancer consists of three things for Teal: a seed implant, testosterone inactivating pharmaceuticals (TIP) (otherwise known as androgen deprivation or testosterone blockade), and IMRT which stands for intensity modulating radiation.  These things are….

IMRT first came on the scene around 2004 and for the first time radiation therapy—beam radiation therapy—surpassed surgery as the preferred type of treatment.  Prior to that we had something called 3D conformal and it was somewhat effective, but unfortunately…