It is with great regret that we must report the demise — last Saturday — of Dr. Gerald (“Gerry”) Chodak — formerly a professor of urology at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. … READ MORE …
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Two questions that come up regularly are whether: (a) men who are said to have died of prostate cancer actually did, and (b) men with prostate cancer who are said to have died of something else actually died of their prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Bayer is to unblind data early from an ongoing randomized clinical trial of radium-223 acetate — on the guidance of the trial’s Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC). … READ MORE …
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A large, newly published, observational study has suggested that comorbidity affects other-cause mortality but not prostate cancer-specific mortality after accounting for patient and tumor characteristics and treatment type. … READ MORE …
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There are very few good and thorough clinical studies on the use and the long-term effectiveness or efficacy of alternative forms of medicine in the treatment of cancer (let alone the treatment of prostate cancer specifically). … READ MORE …
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According to an article from Kaiser Health News on the CNN web site today, “People with advanced cancer don’t know enough about their disease to make informed decisions about treatment or how they want to spend their remaining time.” … READ MORE …
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New data derived from the Physicans’ Health Study have suggested that there is an association between regular aspirin use and avoidance of risk for lethal forms of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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It’s a question every prostate cancer patient wants an answer to: “OK doc. I get it. But how long am I gonna live with this?”
It’s also a question that doctors have a very great deal of difficulty answering, for a whole bunch of reasons. So … READ MORE …
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Your sitemaster is intimately familiar with the human capacity for denial and avoidance. As someone who has spent much of his life writing for a living, he knows all too well his capacity for avoiding some topics until he absolutely has to deal with them! … READ MORE …
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Alas, as most of our readers are all too well aware, some 30,000 or more men in America will die from prostate cancer this year and next year and on into the future, unless and until we find some radically new types of treatment. However, … READ MORE …
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A paper presented at the annual meeting of the European Association of Urology (EAU) suggests that high-risk prostate cancer patients < 60 years of age at the time of radical prostatectomy are more likely to die from their cancer than from other causes during the first 10 years after their surgery. But after that, other causes of death become more likely. … READ MORE …
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A new paper just published in European Urology offers further evidence from a meta-analysis of data from 51 different primary papers that smoking tobacco does increase a man’s risk of dying from prostate cancer — by about 24 percent compared to the risk for non-smokers. … READ MORE …
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According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, Cancer Research UK is claiming that deaths from prostate cancer in the UK have drop by 20.8 percent during the 19-year period from 1991-93 to 2010-12. … READ MORE …
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