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We recommend to our readers a recent article in Medscape Oncology entitled “What’s impeding active surveillance in prostate cancer?” The article is based on a review by Cooperberg et al. in a recent issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. However, the full text of that review article is not easily accessible for most patients [...]
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A new analysis of data from a large, consecutive series of Swedish patients suggests a very strong correlation between age at time of radical prostatectomy and risk for significant, long-term urinary leakage.
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Many prostate cancer patients will recognize statements made by other patients and reported in a study just published in Cancer Nursing and also available on the Medscape Oncology platform. Interestingly this study comes from a group of Norwegian nurses who built an online e-mail support system for their prostate cancer breast cancer patients.
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A group of French researchers have tested use of a diet and exercise tool-kit for men about to start androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). We have not seen the tool-kit, and obviously it is in French … however, it seems to have met with considerable approval from patients and their doctors.
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According to a media release issued on Thursday this week, the National Business Group on Health has been working with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) to develop and now launch a major, 3-year-long initiative to help employers address issues of cancer in the workplace.
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There is an interesting article in the November issue of the European Journal of Cancer that addresses the quality of consumer information available through the Internet about the value of PSA-based testing for prostate cancer.
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Following the recent decision in the UK not to implement a broad, national, PSA-based, prostate cancer screening initiative (on which we have previously commented), many readers will be interested in the reactions and thoughts of John Neate, the executive director of the UK’s Prostate Cancer Charity, which appear in today’s issue of The Guardian newspaper.
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It is common for patients to suggest that primary care physicians should be more knowledgeable about the appropriate use of PSA testing and about how to interpret the results of such tests. However, changing physician behavior is not an easy or a quick process, as the following article will demonstrate.
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In early 1990, Dr. Gerry Chodak — a well-known Chicago-based urologist and then professor of urology at The University of Chicago — wrote a letter to his prostate cancer patients. He said that some of them were interested in starting a prostate cancer support group. From such small beginnings …
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A fascinating paper has just been published in BJU International suggesting that, “Higher education, income and functional capacity were associated with” poorer knowledge about their cancer, poorer understanding about treatment choices, and poorer judgement about survival with and without treatment among a group of 184 patients recently diagnosed with localized prostate cancer.
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Researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire have analyzed the prostate cancer videos on YouTube for information content and the presence of bias. They conclude that, “although some videos are robust sources of information, given the preponderance of modest and unbalanced information among reviewed videos, YouTube is an inadequate source of prostate cancer information [...]
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The ability to provide engaging and easily understood information about prostate cancer screening for low literacy popuations is a continuing challenge. Volk et al. have developed and evaluated an “entertainment-based” patient decision aid for prostate cancer screening, comparing its effectiveness among patients with low and high health literacy.
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