Links & Resources

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Clinical Investigations and Articles of Note

Actuarial Disease-Free Survival After Prostate Cancer Brachytherapy Using Interactive Techniques with Biplane Ultrasound and Fluoroscopic Guidance
By: Gordon L. Grado, M.D., Thayne R. Larson, M.D., Carrie S. Balch, R.N., O.C.N., Mary M. Grado, R.N., M.S., Joseph M. Collins, M.D., J. Scott Kriegshauer, M.D., Gregory P. Swanson, M.D., Roberta J. Navickis, Ph.D., and Mahlon M. Wilkes, Ph.D.

Salvage Brachytherapy for Localized Prostate Cancer After Radiotherapy Failure
By: Gordon L. Grado, M.D.,, Joseph M. Collins, M.D., J. Scott Krieghauser, M.D., Carrie S. Balch, R.N., O.C.N., Mary M. Grado, R.N., M.S., Gregory P. Swanson, M.D., Thayne R. Larson, M.D., Mahlon M. Wilkes, Ph.D., and Roberta J. Navickis, Ph.D.

Techniques to Achieve Optimal Seed Placement in Salvage and Primary Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer
By: Gordon L. Grado, M.D.

Benefits of Brachytherapy as Salvage Treatment for Radiorecurrent Localized Prostate Cancer
By: Gordon L. Grado, M.D.

Online Resources

American Cancer Society
The Prostate Cancer Resource Center: Prostate cancer - overview Available at:
TEL: 1-800-ACS-2345
www.cancer.org

American Urological Association
1000 Corporate Boulevard
Linthicum, MD 21090
Toll Free (U.S. only): 1-866-RING AUA (1-866-746-4282)
Phone: 410-689-3700
Fax: 410-689-3800
www.auanet.org
www.urologyhealth.org

CaP CURE
Association for the Cure of Cancer of the Prostate
American charitable organization
www.capcure.org

Digital Urology Journal
Online version of The Journal of Urology
www.duj.com

Middleton RG, Thompson IM, Austenfeld MS, et al.
Prostate cancer clinical guidelines panel summary report on the management of clinically localized prostate cancer. J Urol. 1995;154:2144-2148
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=7500479&dopt=Abstract

National Cancer Institute
Understanding Prostate Changes: A Health Guide for All Men. Washington, DC: Public Health Services; 1998. US Dept of Health and Human Services. NIH publication 98-4303
Ragde H, Elgamal A-AA, Snow PB, et al. Ten-year disease free survival after transperineal sonography-guided iodine-125 brachytherapy with or without 45-gray external beam irradiation in the treatment of patients with clinically localized, low to high Gleason grade prostate carcinoma. Cancer. 1998;83:989-1001
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=9731904&dopt=Abstract

National Institutes of Health
A government agency
www.nci.nih.gov

Stock RG, Stone NN, DeWyngaert JK, Lavagnini P, Unger PD
Prostate specific antigen findings and biopsy results following interactive ultrasound guided transperineal brachytherapy for early stage prostate carcinoma. Cancer. 1996;77:2386-2392
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=8635111&dopt=Abstract

Stone NN, Stock RG
Prostate brachytherapy: treatment strategies. J Urol. 1999;162:421-426
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=10411050&dopt=Abstract

ProstatePointers.org
www.prostatepointers.org

University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Resource for prostate cancer related information for patients and health professionals alike. Pienta KJ, M.D. Director, University of Michigan Prostate Cancer Program, Learn about Cancer - Prostate Cancer Program. Available from: Urology International
www.cancer.med.umich.edu/prostcan/prostcan.html

Urology International
The online version of Urology International, a quarterly journal for urology specialists
www.urol-int.org

US TOO International, Inc. Prostate Cancer Support Groups
An independent network of support group chapters for men with prostate cancer and their families
www.ustoo.com

WHO/OMS: World Health Organization
Statistics worldwide
www.who.int