The efficacy and safety of the long-term experience with targeted cryoablation of prostate cancer (TCAP) at a community hospital is retrospectively reviewed. A series of 590 consecutive patients who underwent TCAP as primary therapy with curative intent for localized or locally advanced prostate cancer from March 1993 to September 2001 were identified. Patients were stratified into 3 risk group...

Purpose: To determine whether radical prostatectomy (RP) or intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) to ≥72 Gy, plus hormonal therapy if indicated, results in improved biochemical disease free survival (BDFS) in localized prostate adenocarcinoma. Methods and Materials: Between 1997-2005, a consecutive sample of 556 patients who underwent RP (n=204) or IMRT (n=352) at two referral centers wa...

The problem of modeling semi structured data is important in many application areas such as multimedia data management biolog ical databases digital libraries and data integration In this paper we base our work on bdfs which is a formal and elegant model for semi structured data where schemas are graphs whose edges are labeled with formulae of a theory T We extend bdfs with the possibility of e...

The direct quantification of weak intermolecular binding interactions is very important for many applications in biology and medicine. Techniques that can be used to investigate such interactions under a controlled environment, while varying different parameters such as loading rate, pulling direction, rupture event measurements, and the use of different functionalized probes, are still lacking...

INTRODUCTION We compare the results of modern external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT), using combined androgen deprivation and dose-escalated intensity-modulated radiotherapy with MRI-CT fusion and daily image guidance with fiducial markers (DE-IG-IMRT), with recently published Australian series of brachytherapy and surgery. METHODS Five-year actuarial biochemical disease-free survival (bDFS), meta...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In men with adverse pathology at the time of radical prostatectomy (RP), the most appropriate timing to administer radiotherapy (RT) remains a subject for debate. To determine whether salvage radiotherapy (SRT) upon early prostate-specific antigen (PSA) relapse is equivalent to immediate adjuvant radiotherapy (ART) post RP. MATERIAL AND METHODS 130 patients receiving AR...

The problem of modeling semi-structured data is important in many application areas such as multimedia data management, biological databases, digital libraries, and data integration. In this paper, we base our work on bdfs, which is a formal and elegant model for semistructured data [Buneman et al., 1997] where schemas are graphs whose edges are labeled with formulae of a theory T . We extend b...

OBJECTIVES To make the first analysis of the salvage radiotherapy outcomes for biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy in African descendant people, witch has no healthcare access difficulties: the French West-Indies African-Caribbean people of Guadeloupe. PATIENTS AND METHOD Ninety successive patients, with biological failure after radical prostatectomies were t...

BACKGROUND The aim of this paper was to report definitive outcome of prostate cancer patients treated with dose escalation during a period of 12.5 years. METHODS From October 1999 to March 2012 we treated 1080 patients affected by prostate cancer, using External Beam Radiotherapy (EBRT). The mean age was 69.2 years. Most of the patients (69%) were staged as cT2, Gleason Score (GS)<7; the mean...