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The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink wants to take a “time out” to recognize the annual efforts made in the USA each year by Major League Baseball (MLB) to support prostate cancer awareness and help raise money for prostate cancer research.
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So here in the USA, Major League Baseball has been a long-time supporter of a significant initiative to spread awareness of prostate cancer.
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Last May, Dan Zenka of the Prostate Cancer Foundation (motivated by his own recent diagnosis) first suggested the idea of lighting the White House blue in September to celebrate Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Now there’s been a formal request supported by many of the leading prostate cancer advocacy organizations (including Dan and the Prostate Cancer [...]
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Dan Zenka thinks we should be lighting the White House blue for Prostate Cancer Awareness Week this September. The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink agrees. So … read Dan’s blog and then e-mail the President and Mrs. Obama. Your commentator has already sent in his supporting e-mail.
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We live today in an environment with a very high level of focus on cancer awareness — particularly for breast, prostate, and skin cancers, but also for other forms of cancer like lung cancer and colon cancer. But do we really appreciate some of the consequences of all this “awareness”?
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If I was the VP of marketing for Intuitive Surgical — the makers of the da Vinci surgical “robot” — I would probably have done what the company has just done, which is to partner with a national cancer organization to promote prostate cancer awareness while linking such awareness closely to awareness about robot-assisted laparoscopic [...]
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Today’s news reports include discussion of items on: Prostate cancer risk awareness Improving cryotherapy technique with 3D ultrasound Interposition (“sural”) nerve grafting Post-brachytherapy “PSA bounce” The potential of targeted, peptide-linked, α-emitting radioisotopes
Filed under: Diagnosis, Drugs in development, Management, Prevention, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: African American, awareness, brachytherapy, cryotherapy, Hispanic, interposition, nerve grafting, PSA bounce, radiopeptides, risk, sural, targeted, therapy | 3 Comments »
Surprisingly only 15 readers felt motivated to vote last week on the relevance of Prostate Cancer Awareness Week compared to other potential initiatives — 8/15 (53 percent) favored continuation of the current PCAW initiative compared to others, but perhaps the most telling fact is that such a small number of readers felt motivated to vote [...]
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The UK prostate cancer advocacy community appears to have scored a major “hit” with an article in the MailOnline on Monday entitled, “What EVERY man (and his wife) should know about prostate cancer.” If you have a spare 3 minutes, The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink suggests you leave a brief comment at the bottom of this [...]
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In today’s prostate cancer news update we report on: Awareness of the PSA test in men with other recognized health risks A new urine test that may differentiate between prostate cancer and BPH Markers for the likelihood of effectiveness of androgen deprivation from an ongoing Finnish multicenter trial
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