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Saturday, February 6th 2016

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY 1ST ANNUAL PRACTICAL UROLOGY CONFERENCE

California, USA. February 4-6, 2016 Lecture Topics: Prostate Xancer surgical Masterclass, Biomarkers and Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer, Social Media in Urology Category: Prostate Cancer, Social Media


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Saturday, January 23rd 2016

Society of Women in Urology (SWIU)

USA. January 22-23, 2016 Lecture Topic: Serum, Urine and Tissue Markers in Prostate Cancer Category: Prostate cancer


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Friday, January 22nd 2016

26th International Prostate Cancer Update (IPCU)

Colorado, USA. January 20-22, 2016 Lecture Topics: When to do prostate biopsy: Role for PSA and novel biomarkers Category: Prostate cancer


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Saturday, January 2nd 2016

CONGRESO ANUAL ASOCIACION NACIONAL DE UROLOGOS EGRESADOS DEL CENTRO MEDICO NACIONAL LA RAZA (ANUER) de México

México City. January 28-30, 2016 Lecture Topics (all in Spanish): Smarter screening for Prostate Cancer, Prostate Cancer Markers Category:  Prostate Cancer


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Thursday, December 10th 2015

Other Original Articles

Thomsen FB, Folkvaljon Y, Garmo H, Robinson D, Loeb S, Ingvar C, Lambe M, Stattin P. “Risk of malignant melanoma in men with prostate cancer. Nationwide, population-based cohort study.” International Journal of Cancer. 2015 Dec 14 epub. PMID: 26662367 Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26662367


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Wednesday, December 2nd 2015

Urology Care Foundation- A Great Source of Patient Information

I recently returned from a meeting of the Technology and Publications Committee of the Urology Care Foundation.  This is the official foundation of the American Urological Association, which provides educational materials and other resources for patients. One particularly impressive resource that our committee oversees is the patient magazine called Urology Health Extra.  Here is a… Read More


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Tuesday, December 1st 2015

Welcome to Dr. Stacy Loeb’s blog!

Welcome to Dr. Stacy Loeb’s blog!  Stay tuned to this section for urology updates, research findings and conference highlights. Check the publications tab for previous research related to: prostate cancer: PSA Screening, biomarkers, genetics, epidemiology, prostate biopsy, staging, active surveillance, treatment. other urology topics: surgical technique, uro-oncology, benign disease social media


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Sunday, November 29th 2015

Cancer Research & Oncology Virtual Conference

Dr Stacy Loeb presented on “Active Surveillance: Trends in Use, Patient Selection and Monitoring” Category: prostate cancer Location: http://www.labroots.com/webcast/id/554


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Saturday, November 14th 2015

The 10th Atlantic Uro Oncology Meeting

 Halifax, Canada. November 14, 2015 Lecture Topics: Prostate Cancer Markers and Active Surveillance Category: Prostate Cancer


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Friday, November 6th 2015

Prostate Cancer World Congress

Cairns, Australia. August 2015 Lecture Topics: Key publications in prostate cancer, Active Surveillance for prostate cancer, Updates to Gleason grading, Social Media and Prostate Cancer. Category: Prostate Cancer


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Saturday, October 31st 2015

Lecture on the Role of Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer Surveillance

Lecture on the Role of Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer Surveillance for the NYU Cancer Center Community Education Series (October 2015)


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Thursday, October 29th 2015

Reviews/Editorials

Loeb S. Editorial Comment on “Trends in Prostate Specific Antigen Screening, Prostate Biopsies, Urology Visits, and Prostate Cancer Treatments from 2000 to 2012.” Urology 2015; 86: 504-5. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26282019


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Wednesday, October 28th 2015

Other Original Articles

Bostrӧm PJ, Bjartell AS, Catto JW, Eggener SE, Lilja H, Loeb S, Schalken J, Schlomm T, and Cooperberg MR. “Genomic Predictors of Outcome in Prostate Cancer.” European Urology 2015 epub. PMID: 25913390. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25913390


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Wednesday, October 28th 2015

Reviews/Editorials

Loeb S. Editorial Comment on “Impact of prostate-specific antigen on a baseline prostate cancer risk assessment including genetic risk.” Urology 2015; 85: 170. PMID: 25530380. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25530379


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Tuesday, October 27th 2015

Reviews/Editorials

Loeb S, Cooperberg MR. “Early Detection of Prostate Cancer.” Urological Clinics of North America 2014 May epub. PMID: 24725496 Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24725496


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Tuesday, October 27th 2015

Other Original Articles

Loeb S, Bruinsma SM, Nicholson J, Briganti A, Pickles T, Kakehi Y, Carlsson SV, Roobol MJ. “Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review of Clinicopathologic Variables and Biomarkers for Risk Stratification.” European Urology 2014 Oct epub. PMID: 25457014 Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25457014


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Monday, October 26th 2015

Reviews/Editorials

Loeb S. “Time to replace prostate-specific antigen (PSA) with the Prostate Health Index (PHI)? Yet more evidence that PHI consistently outperforms PSA across diverse populations.” BJU International 2015; 115: 500. PMID: 25808708 Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25808708


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Monday, October 26th 2015

Other Original Articles

Loeb S, Sokoll LJ, Broyles DL, Bangma CH, van Schaik RH, Klee GG, Wei JT, Sanda MG, Partin AW, Slawin KM, Marks LS, Mizrahi IA, Shin SS, Cruz AB, Chan DW, Roberts WL, Catalona WJ. “Prospective Multicenter Evaluation of the Beckman Coulter Prostate Health Index Using WHO Calibration.” Journal of Urology 2012; epub November. PMID:… Read More


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Monday, October 26th 2015

Reviews/Editorials

Vellekoop A and Loeb S. “Update of Randomized Trials for Prostate Cancer Screening.” Reviews in Urology 2013; 15: 37-9. PMID: 23671404 Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3651541/


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Sunday, October 25th 2015

Reviews/Editorials

Loeb S. “Prostate cancer: Predicting prostate biopsy results- PCA3 versus phi.” Nature Reviews Urology 2015 epub Feb 3. PMID: 25644161 Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25644161  


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Sunday, October 25th 2015

Other Original Articles

Tosoian JJ, Loeb S, Feng Z, Isharwal S, Landis P, Elliot DJ, Veltri R, Epstein JI, Partin AW, Carter HB, Trock B, Sokoll LJ. “Association of [-2]proPSA with Biopsy Reclassification During Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer.” Journal of Urology 2012; 188: 1131-6. PMID: 22901577. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22901577


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Sunday, October 25th 2015

Reviews/Editorials

Loeb S “Use of Baseline Prostate-Specific Antigen Measurements to Personalize Prostate Cancer Screening.” European Urology May 2012: 61: 875-6. PMID:22154726. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22154726


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Saturday, October 24th 2015

Reviews/Editorials

Lundon D, Loeb S. “Prostate-Specific Antigen Velocity Risk Count to Discern Significant From Indolent Prostate Cancer.” Reviews in Urology 2014; 16: 154. PMID: 25337050. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4191640/


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Saturday, October 24th 2015

Reviews/Editorials

Loeb S. “Editorial Comment on: A Commentary on PSA Velocity and doubling time for clinical decisions in prostate cancer” Urology 2014; 83: 596. PMID: 24581522 Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24581522


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Saturday, October 24th 2015

Reviews/Editorials

Loeb S. Editorial Comment on “Low percentage of free prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a strong predictor of later detection of prostate cancer among Japanese men with serum levels of total PSA of 4.0 ng/mL or less” Urology 2014; 84: 1167. PMID: 25443924. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25443924


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Saturday, October 24th 2015

Other Original Articles

Nichols JH, Loeb S, Metter EJ, Ferrucci L, Carter HB. “The Relationship Between Prostate Volume and Prostate-Specific Antigen Variability: Data from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging and the Johns Hopkins Active Surveillance Program.” BJU International 2012; 109: 1304-8. PMID: 22093443. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22093443


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Saturday, October 24th 2015

Reviews/Editorials

Loeb S, Catalona WJ. “The Prostate Health Index: A New Test for the Detection of Prostate Cancer.” Therapeutic Advances in Urology 2014; 6: 74. PMID: 24688603 Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24688603/


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Saturday, October 24th 2015

Reviews/Editorials

Roobol MJ, Bangma CH, Loeb S. “Prostate-specific antigen screening can be beneficial to younger and at-risk men.” CMAJ, May 2012 epub. PMID: 22566532. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3537779/


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Friday, October 23rd 2015

Sirius XM Channel 110 Doctor Radio

Dr. Loeb Hosts the Men’s Health Show on US/Canada satellite radio Sirius XM channel 110 On Wednesdays from 6-8pm EST. https://www.siriusxm.com/doctorradio/weeklyschedule  


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Friday, October 23rd 2015

Report: Forbes article about Viagra & Melanoma

Ever since a paper was released last year detailing cases of melanoma found in men taking the billion-dollar erectile dysfunction (ED) blockbuster Viagra, urologist Stacy Loeb of New York University has been fielding questions from worried patients about whether they should risk the little blue pill…  


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Friday, October 23rd 2015

Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review of Clinicopathologic Variables and Biomarkers for Risk Stratification

Loeb S, Bruinsma SM, Nicholson J, Briganti A, Pickles T, Kakehi Y, Carlsson SV, Roobol MJ. “Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review of Clinicopathologic Variables and Biomarkers for Risk Stratification.” European Urology 2014 Oct epub. PMID: 25457014 Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25457014


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Friday, October 23rd 2015

Use of Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors for Erectile Dysfunction and Risk of Malignant Melanoma.

Loeb S, Folkvaljon Y, Lambe M, Robinson D, Garmo H, Ingvar C, Stattin P. “Use of Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors for Erectile Dysfunction and Risk of Malignant Melanoma.”  JAMA 2015; 313: 2449-55. PMID: 26103029. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26103029


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Friday, October 23rd 2015

Urology Times on Twitter in Urology

5/2014 Urology Times on Twitter in Urology


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Friday, October 23rd 2015

Twitter and Urology- Targeted Oncology Interview

5/2014 Twitter and Urology- Targeted Oncology Interview


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Friday, October 23rd 2015

Lecture on Social Media in Medicine at International Continence Society in Rio de Janiero

10/2014 Lecture on Social Media in Medicine at International Continence Society in Rio de Janiero


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Friday, October 23rd 2015

Australia TV appearance video

8/2013 Australia TV appearance video http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-06/new-blood-test-offers-improved-treatment-for/4867150


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Friday, October 23rd 2015

Arise TV appearance on prostate cancer

6/2014 Arise TV appearance on prostate cancer


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Friday, October 23rd 2015

ASCO/MedPage Today video on Active Surveillance

5/2015 ASCO/MedPage Today video on Active Surveillance http://www.medpagetoday.com/ASCOVideoConferenceReporterAUA/special-reports/AUA2015Video-Videos/1143


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Friday, October 23rd 2015

Seminar on prostate cancer screening at Laura and Isaac Perlmutter NYU Cancer Center

Seminar on prostate cancer screening at Laura and Isaac Perlmutter NYU Cancer Center


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