Those with advanced-stage prostate cancer experience leg pain when the cancer cells spread outside the prostate, blocking the ...

[which means cancer] spread outside of the organ, they first try to get to the lymph nodes near the prostate, called the pelvic lymph nodes, and second most commonly, the bone," Dr. Narayanan says.

or multiple lymph nodes, none more than 5 cm in greatest dimension N2 Multiple regional lymph node metastasis in the true pelvis (hypogastric, obturator, external iliac or presacral lymph node ...

SESAUA annual meeting featured a prostate cancer session and a presentation by Dr. Abhi Moolupuri discussing a PET/CT supplemented approach to omission of pelvic lymph node dissection. The National ...

Prostate cancer affects one in eight men during their lifetime, making it the second most common cancer among American males.

Medically reviewed by Doru Paul, MD Stage 4 prostate cancer is the most advanced stage of the disease. It means that cancer ...

This is known as metastatic prostate cancer. Other than the lymph nodes near the prostate, the most common site of prostate cancer spread, or metastasis, is the bones, especially in the spine. In some ...

About 20 percent invade the muscle of the bladder and can spread to the pelvic lymph nodes. In men, bladder cancer can spread into the prostate and seminal vesicles, and in women, these cancers can ...

Since the existence of the oligometastatic disease state was posited three decades ago,1 there has been interest in investigating the role of metastasis-directed therapy—largely in the form of ...

The cancer cells may metastasize (spread) from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly the bones and lymph nodes. Prostate cancer may cause pain, difficulty in urinating, problems ...

The presence of lymph node metastasis has a major influence on bladder cancer prognosis ... of finding one positive lymph nodes in a more extensive pelvic lymphadenectomy were greater than ...