Benjamin P. Saylor

Prostate cancer has made its way into another set of Choosing Wisely recommendations, this time from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Men with short-ended chromosomes in the immune cells in their blood appear to be at increased risk for aggressive prostate cancer compared with men with long-ended chromosomes, according to findings from a recent study.

A study of several hundred chemicals used in commercial pesticides has found only weak evidence that any of them are associated with hypospadias, the authors reported.

The FDA has approved a product label addition for the phosphodiesterase-type-5 inhibitor tadalafil (Cialis) that involves its use with finasteride (Proscar).

Vitamin D does not appear to increase risk for developing kidney stones, say researchers from the University of California, San Diego.

Standard and reduced high-dose volume radiation therapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer provide similar tumor control and decreased late toxicity when compared to surgery, say the authors of a study from the United Kingdom.

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The American Society for Radiation Oncology and the American Academy of Family Physicians have both released recommendations on the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer as part of the Choosing Wisely campaign.

The level of expression of three genes associated with aging can be used to predict whether seemingly low-risk prostate cancer will remain slow growing, according to a recent study.

A recent study has shown that in women with moderate-to-severe stress urinary incontinence, surgery is more effective than physiotherapy.

Coffee consumption is associated with a lower risk of prostate cancer recurrence and progression, researchers reported.

The risk of women developing kidney stones is rising, as is the number of cases being seen in U.S. emergency departments, while the rate of hospitalization for the disorder has remained stable, recent study findings indicate.