Publications by authors named "Benjamin C Jessie"
Article Synopsis
- - The prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in cancer patients, especially those undergoing pelvic surgery like radical retropubic prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer, is crucial, although the risk of VTE is generally low for most patients.
- - While guidelines recommend pharmacological prophylaxis to prevent VTE, many urological surgeons in the USA do not routinely implement it, particularly due to concerns about its risks.
- - Combining radical retropubic prostatectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy poses additional risks, as pharmacological prophylaxis can lead to increased lymph drainage and lymphocele formation, which may further elevate the risk of postoperative VTE.
Purpose: While the mitochondrion is known to be a key mediator of apoptosis, there has been little inquiry into the inheritance pattern of mitochondria in patients with cancer. We compared the mtDNA haplotype in patients with prostate and renal cancer to that in controls to determine if there is an association between mitochondrial genotype and cancer.
Materials And Methods: Haplotyping was performed using polymerase chain reaction/digest identification of key polymorphic sites in the mitochondrial genome.