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Clinicians at the University of Miami have just reported on changes in the correlation between pre-surgical (biopsy) Gleason scores and post-surgical Gleason scores over a 15-year period, based on the surgical treatment of 1670 men at their institution.
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Anyone who has learned a reasonable amount about the diagnosis and management of prostate cancer has learned that the prostate specific antigen or PSA test is not a particularly good test for identifying or monitoring the status of men with active prostate cancer. It is simply better than anything else we have. Researchers have been [...]
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Knowing how best to treat early-stage prostate cancer is still a problem for doctors and for their patients. Early-stage disease isn’t usually fatal, and aggressive therapy can have serious side effects.
A study in today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine is the first to thoroughly examine treatment side effects such as urinary obstruction and vitality [...]
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A woman told me that her husband had lost his erections after prostate cancer treatment. Her sister told me he had not. It took all my self-control to keep from starting a debate. Still, their words cause me to wonder: Do we use the same language in regards to erections? Not according to a recent [...]
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You can get prostate cancer information on the internet. If you want some useful insight, consider reading books.
There are different kinds of prostate cancer books. First we have the encyclopedia, useful because it puts in one place everything you might want to know. And you can take it on the plane and to bed, places [...]
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