On October 17 (next Monday) at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time, our friends at CureTalks will be running a call-in teleconference on palliative care for cancer patients that may be of interest to some of our readers. … READ MORE …
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Your sitemaster has mentioned before that he likes to keep an eye on the blog by the medical oncologist Dr. Craig Hildreth on the CancerNetwork.com web site. … READ MORE …
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A new article in the journal Supportive Care in Cancer makes the point that informational needs and resources for men dealing with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer continue to be relatively poor — a fact that we would not disagree with. … READ MORE …
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Some of the most interesting data on the management of prostate cancer seem to be coming out of Australia in recent years — and the newly reported data from the ProCare trial is a case in point. … READ MORE …
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Many readers who weren’t able to join us on yesterday’s CureTalk panel discussion may want to listen to what was a wide-ranging discussion about things that are really valuable to prostate cancers patients at diagnosis and along their prostate cancer journey. … READ MORE …
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Healthcare and medicine have started to become engaged in what is liable to be a long and complex discussion about the “value” of different aspects of healthcare delivery. … READ MORE …
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A new article in the journal Nature Reviews: Urology is entitled, “The implications of ageing and life expectancy in prostate cancer treatment.” It’s an important issue. … READ MORE …
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A recent and truly excellent review in Nature Reviews: Urology offers us a very thoughtful set of insights on the role of “expectant” and “conservative” management (i.e., active surveillance and watchful waiting) in the care of men with prostate cancer today. … READ MORE …
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“Standard of care” (SOC) is a legalistic term. As it applies to medicine, wh en a clinician follows an SOC, it means that he or she has proceeded with the reasonable caution that any minimally competent doctor would and should exercise in such circumstances. … READ MORE …
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In an article in the October 25 issue of The ASCO Post, Dr. Jonas de Souza of the University of Chicago has introduced a new initiative to help all cancer patients and their doctors address the increasing problems associated with the costs of cancer care. … READ MORE …
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A story in yesterday’s Washington Post suggests that US veterans seeking care for prostate cancer and other urologic conditions at the Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ, received the short end on a very short stick in the 2 years after the initial patient scheduling problems came to light. … READ MORE …
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A newly published paper in the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network has identified a series of significant disparities in there clinical care of African American men as opposed to Caucasians. … READ MORE …
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Readers who are interested in a current assessment of issues affecting the quality of (and access to) prostate cancer care services for those living in rural communities across America may want to download and review the two articles listed below. … READ MORE …
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