Publications by authors named "S Schelin"

To evaluate the efficacy of a triple treatment strategy, including surgery, on high risk prostate cancer comparing long-term survival outcome with a cohort receiving standard radiotherapy with endocrine therapy. This study compared two cohorts in survival outcomes, matched on the year of diagnosis and age. In both groups there was a curative intention to treat localized high-risk prostate cancer (one or more of Gleason score 8-10, PSA 20-50 or stage T3), diagnosed between 1995-2010, follow-up at the end of 2014.

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Purpose: To evaluate continence after radical prostatectomy in prostate cancer patients, in whom a new method of the bladder neck reconstruction (BNR) using deep dorsal stitch was implemented (deep single stitch through all bladder layers directly dorsal to the bladder opening after ″ tennis racket″ reconstruction) and to provide justification for its use by means of anatomical study in cadavers.

Material And Methods: Open radical retropubic prostatectomy was performed in 84 patients: 39 patients with a new BNR method used to improve continence and control group of 45 patients with standard ″tennis racket″ BNR. Median follow-up was 14 months in control group and 12 months in study group.

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Objective: Radical prostatectomy (RP) has become the most common treatment for localized prostate cancer in Sweden. Outcome is extremely good for pT2 stage with Gleason score 6 or less, but more than every fourth operated patient will have a pT3 stage on full amount specimen histology. According to several reports the risk of biochemical recurrence is quite high, especially in stage pT3, on active surveillance after surgery alone.

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Objective: Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) has been the gold standard for treatment of obstructive benign prostatic hyperplasia since the 1970s. Intraprostatic injections of mepivacain epinephrine (ME) (Carbocain-Adrenalin) before Core Therm (Prostalund feedback treatment) have been used to anaesthetize the gland and reduce the intraprostatic blood flow, thereby reducing discomfort, treatment time and energy consumption during transurethral microwave thermotherapy. As a result of this experience, use of this technique before TURP, to reduce perioperative bleeding and blood loss during TURP surgery, was investigated.

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Objectives: To compare the efficacy and safety of transurethral microwave thermotherapy (TUMT) with ProstaLund Feedback Treatment, using the CoreTherm device, with transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) 5 years after treatment.

Methods: This prospective, randomized, multicenter study was conducted at 10 centers in the United States and Scandinavia. A total of 154 patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia were randomized to TUMT or TURP in a 2:1 ratio.

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