Annual Evidence Update on Prostate Cancer: 7-11 March 2011

An update of the evidence on this topic from NHS Evidence - cancer

This is the sixth Annual Evidence Update on Prostate Cancer to be produced by the Cancer Specialist Collection. This year, the Kidney Diseases And Male Urogenital Disorders Specialist Collection team have collaborated with the Cancer Specialist Collection team to search for and appraise the evidence published since March 2010. Commentaries on the evidence will also be available, such as the following:

• The benefits of robotic surgery over open surgery - Lona Vyas and Ben Challacombe, The Urology Centre, Guy's Hospital.
• Optimizing the use of prostate biopsy - Alastair Henderson, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.
• Biological therapy - Dr Andrew Protheroe, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Churchill Hospital, Oxford.
• Patient information - Mr Douglas Badenoch, Prostate cancer Links, Information Specialist NHS Evidence - later life
• Complementary therapies and prostate cancer - Dr Peter Fisher Clinical Lead, NHS Evidence - complementary and alternative medicine www.library.nhs.uk/cam, Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• Ethnicity and prostate cancer - Mr Frank Chinegwundoh

Find out more at www.library.nhs.uk/cancer

Annual Evidence Update on Prostate Cancer: 8-12 March 2010

An update of the evidence on this topic from NHS Evidence - cancer.

This will be the third annual evidence update on prostrate cancer prepared by NHS Evidence – cancer. It will include the systematic reviews and guidance that have been published since March 2009.

Find out more at www.library.nhs.uk/cancer.

Annual Evidence Update on Prostate Cancer: 9-13 March 2009

An update of the evidence on this topic from the NLH Cancer Specialist Library.

The 2009 Annual Evidence Update on Prostate cancer is the second the Cancer Specialist Library has prepared. The Annual Evidence Update consists of all relevant systematic reviews and national guidelines that have emerged in the twelve months since the Prostate Cancer Annual Evidence Update in March 2008. These are the topic areas covered this year:

• Causes, risks and prevention
• Screening
• Assessment and diagnosis
• Treatment and disease management
• Service delivery and standards

This year's Annual Evidence Update goes live on Monday 9th March and will coincide with Prostate Cancer Awareness Month (PDF file).

Find out more at http://www.library.nhs.uk/cancer

Annual Evidence Update on Prostate Cancer: 10-14 March 2008

The NLH Cancer Specialist Library will present its National Knowledge Week on Prostate Cancer from 10th March. It will cover the evidence on the following aspects of prostate cancer:

• Causes, risks and prevention (diet and nutrition, chemoprevention and screening)
  
• Assessment and diagnosis (biochemical, genetics, cellular/histopathology, diagnostic imaging, staging and physical examination)
  
• Treatment and disease management (biological therapy, chemotherapy, hormone and other drug therapy, radiotherapy, surgery, follow-up etc)
  
• Service delivery and standards (economic assessment)
  

Find out more at http://www.library.nhs.uk/cancer.

Prostate Cancer - National Knowledge Week: 19-23 March

Dear all - 2 NKWs this week - please help us to promote whatever you can.

The second Prostate Cancer National Knowledge Week is a showcase for work which goes on throughout the year. The Cancer Specialist Library sifts the prostate cancer literature and highlights high quality and important publications. It is difficult for many clinicians to find these among the huge volume published each year. There are a number of new trends.

See the NKW pages in the NLH Cancer Specialist Library.