David P. Dearnaley, MD, of The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the comparison, in this study, of hypofractionated high-dose IMRT schedules for prostate cancer (Abstract 2).
Christopher J. Sweeney, MBBS, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, reviews important presentations on testicular cancer, including dose intensification for first-line therapy of metastatic disease, and what physicians need to know about the molecular genetics of testicular cancer.
Christopher Brian Allard, MD, of Brigham & Women's Hospital, reports on results of the Physicians’ Health Study, which showed that regular aspirin use decreased the risk of lethal prostate cancer in a cohort of American doctors (Abstract 306).
W. Robert Lee, MD, of Duke University, discusses this phase III non-inferiority study comparing two fractionation schedules in patients with low-risk prostate cancer (Abstract 1).
Paul L. Nguyen, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses this phase III trial in which prostate cancer patients were given antiandrogen therapy with bicalutamide during and after salvage radiation therapy following radical prostatectomy and an elevated PSA (Abstract 3).
A. Oliver Sartor, MD, of Tulane Cancer Center, discusses this study investigating circulating tumor cell characteristics to predict resistance to androgen deprivation therapies in patients with advanced prostate cancer (Abstract 163).
