One has to sign up to become a member of the UroToday web site, but there is no cost involved, and an attractive feature for prostate cancer patients is the regular, relatively brief, video-recorded interviews with experts on recent, specific issues. … READ MORE …
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An interesting article published a couple of week’s ago in the Medical Journal of Australia reports on “real world issues” related to the implementation of active surveillance (AS) in Oz. … READ MORE …
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In a new article in the Journal of Urology, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore have again expressed their opinion that it would be inappropriate to rename low-risk Gleason 6 disease as something other than “cancer”. … READ MORE …
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It will come as no particular surprise that men who have had complications after a prior biopsy tend to be less enthusiastic when it is suggested that they need another one. However, … … READ MORE …
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Someone asked the sitemaster yesterday about a new test for risk of prostate cancer called Prostac® and where he could access this. … READ MORE …
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Something that most of us seem to have managed to “miss” at the American Urological Association (AUA) annual meeting in San Francisco in May was an update from Dr. Ian Thompson on the 25-year outcomes of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT). It has the potential to be rather important! … READ MORE …
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Newly published research in Nature Genetics has reported the identification of yet another 63 new variants in the human genome that increase risk for a diagnosis of prostate cancer in males. This takes the total number of such variants identified to date to something approaching 175. … READ MORE …
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