Posted on November 19, 2009 by Sitemaster
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 for patients.” … READ MORE …
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Posted on June 7, 2009 by Sitemaster
Two days ago someone left us a message about a new web site called HIFUcertified.com. We looked briefly at a couple of pages of the site and learned very little.
“That’s interesting,” we thought. “Who’s certifying these specialists? And what does ‘certified’ mean?” So we responded to the e-mail address provided (info@hifucertified.com) and asked for a little more information.
Note: The following content has been updated since the original post. … READ MORE …
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Posted on December 2, 2008 by Sitemaster
Dimitropoulou et al. have reported data from a case-control study in > 800 men in the United Kingdom. The study was designed to investigate whether there is a real association between the frequency of sexual activity (intercourse, masturbation, overall) and prostate cancer risk in men diagnosed at ≤ 60 years of age. … READ MORE …
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Posted on November 25, 2008 by Sitemaster
The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink would like to thank Dr. Andrew Armstrong, a specialist in prostate and other genitourinary cancers in Durham, North Carolina, for contributing to our series in which doctors talk about how they would go about finding the right physician to treat them if they had prostate cancer.
Please click here for Dr. Armstrong’s article on what to look for in a medical oncologist.
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Posted on November 23, 2008 by Sitemaster
Prostate Cancer International, Inc. is pleased to announce the development of yet another regional web site providing core information about prostate cancer for every country in Central and South America: El Cáncer de Próstata Latinoamérica. … READ MORE …
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Posted on October 3, 2008 by Sitemaster
The important news today appears to be clear confirmation that a high- (or low-) fiber diet won’t affect your risk for prostate cancer (at least, not over an 8-year timeframe). In other news today:
- Prostate weight may impact risk for recurrence following surgery
- Just over 25 percent of patients receiving hormone therapy will be diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within the following 7 or so years
- The relative values of two ways to assess erectile function have been investigated … READ MORE …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Prevention, Tips, Treatment | Tagged: androgen, depression, deprivation, diet, fiber, positive surgical margin, risk | Leave a comment »
Posted on September 27, 2008 by Sitemaster
The news update for this weekend is largely of a “theoretical” as opposed to a “practical” nature. We have therefore kept the discussion brief and referred readers to the source material for more information. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Tips, Treatment | Tagged: DNA index, Her2/neu, incidence, Korea, PSA, urology education | Leave a comment »
Posted on September 1, 2008 by Sitemaster
Prostate Cancer International is pleased to announce the completion of “phase I” of its new Prostate Cancer Africa initiative. The long-term goal of this initiative is to ensure that sound, basic information about the risks of prostate cancer are available to every man in Africa, regardless of race or nationality.
In phase I of this initiative, the preliminary goal has been to provide standardized information in English broken down by nation. Now that this preliminary goal is complete, the intent is to work slowly but surely on accurate, standardized translations of the content into as many relevant languages as possible, by nation.
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Posted on August 4, 2008 by Sitemaster
In 1996, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (U.S. PSTF) first issued a report stating that the benefits of screening for prostate cancer were far outweighed by the risks. This report was updated in 2002.
As of today, Tuesday August 5, 2008, the U.S. PSTF has issued another updated version of their guidelines on this subject … and they are still of the opinion that the potential risks of screening far outweigh the potential benefits. … MORE …
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Posted on July 30, 2008 by Sitemaster
Actually it’s very quiet today. Nothing disease-specific at all on the wires so far. Probably there was so much news yesterday (click here and here). So we thought we’d update you on what The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink has been up to. … MORE …
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Posted on July 15, 2008 by Sitemaster
A report has just been published regarding two recent cases of venous thromboembolism in men self-medicating with “Dr. Donsbach’s Prostasol.” Patients who are using or who are considering using this product should be aware of this possibility, as should their physicians. Any patient who is taking this product as a complementary or alternative medicine would be wise to discuss this with his doctor. … MORE …
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Posted on July 2, 2008 by Sitemaster
A biomedical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin is using a concept called “grid computing” to allow the average person (that’s you!) to donate idle computer time in a global effort to fight cancer. … MORE …
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Posted on June 25, 2008 by Sitemaster
Many readers of this blog may be interested in learning a little more about the way medical device and pharmaceutical companies go about “marketing” clinical trials of new techniques and new drugs to the referring physician community and to the patient community. The current US trial of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) offers us an excellent example. … MORE …
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Posted on June 20, 2008 by Sitemaster
The following guest blog entry has been kindly provided by Andrew Vickers, PhD, of the Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center in New York. It is based in part on a presentation he gave at the recent annual meeting of the American Urological Association. Dr Vickers specializes in methodological research with a particular focus on issues related to the diagnosis and treatment of early stage prostate cancer.
The first patient’s question: “My PSA is low, but has been rising over the past few years. Should I consider a biopsy?” … MORE …
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Posted on June 13, 2008 by Sitemaster
According to unofficial calculations based on the US census, there are some 64,300,000 fathers in America today. About 38.3 percent of all men in America are between 40 and 75 years of age. Therefore about 24.6 million fathers in America are between 40 and 75 years old.
Let’s make a resolution to make sure every one of them who hasn’t done so gets a DRE and a PSA test some time between now and the end of Prostate Cancer Awareness Week (September 14-20, 2008).
Here are the rules of the game: … MORE …
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