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The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia is conducting an international survey of men’s experiences of sexual activity following treatment for prostate cancer.
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer | Tagged: sexual activity, sexuality, survey, Treatment | 10 Comments »
A research team at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health is seeking prostate cancer patients willing to complete an on-line survey as part of a study to determine how men with prostate cancer cope with their disease, how their quality of life (QoL) is affected, and [...]
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It is not exactly news that men who are diagnosed with localized prostate cancer, but who have a significant number of comorbid conditions, are actually at relatively low risk of prostate cancer-specific mortality.
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: outcome, PCSM, prognosis, prostate cancer-specific mortality, questionnaire, survey, TIBI-CaP | 5 Comments »
According to preliminary data from a survey of prostate cancer patients in France and the UK, the key finding was that 72 percent of the participants “did not want the treatment for their condition to impact their lives.”
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Today’s prostate cancer news reports cover items on: Assessment of quality of life after radical prostatectomy Permanent seed brachytherapy in treatment of localized disease Cryotherapy in treatment of patients with Gleason 8-10 localized disease Actonel and/or estradiol in prevention of SREs
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Over the past couple of years, Baker and colleagues at the University of Leicester in England have developed and “operationalized” what appears to be a relatively sophisticated survey system to rate patient and spouse/partner/caregiver experiences from initial assessment of risk for prostate cancer through post-treatment follow-up. The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink thinks that a similar [...]
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