Following his most recent check-in with his urologist, Howard tells us about things related to how the new USPSTF guidelines and tests like liquid biopsies might affect the monitoring of low-risk prostate cancer patients.
In an even more recent article, Howard also talks about the potential need for prostate cancer support groups that are specific to men on active surveillance, who have needs that are very different to those with progressive and advanced forms of prostate cancer or even men who have had successful first-line treatment for their cancer.
Howard writes regularly about his prostate cancer and its management for the MedPage Today web site, and we encourage any patient who is on active surveillance — or who is considering this as an option — to read Howard’s series of articles, which can all be accessed through the links below:
- Prostate cancer: a patient’s journey
- A conscientious objector in the war on cancer
- Prostate cancer: driving the personalized medicine highway
- Prostate cancer: new directions with active surveillance
- Prostate cancer overload: informed decisions or information overload?
- A patient’s journey: sometimes it’s not all about prostate cancer
- A patient’s journey: can high-grade PIN be “great news”?
- A patient’s journey: the first that was almost forgotten
- A patient’s journey: me and my “lame” cancer
- A patient’s journey: support group for patients
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk | Tagged: active, journey, surveillance, Wolinsky |
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