Over the past few months new staff at the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) in Santa Monica, CA, have been focused on developing new information and new content for the prostate cancer patient community that is more patient oriented than research oriented. An example is PCF’s new, 72-page Prostate Cancer Patient Guide. … READ MORE …
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Many readers of this blog site might find this video (or the transcript) to be informative … or just entertaining. It’s primarily intended for physicians and their support staff.
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A newly published article on the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine offers some helpful guidance to primary care physicians on the subject of prostate cancer diagnosis and its management. … READ MORE …
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The following article was originally published in the ASCO Connection magazine on February 22, 2017 (click here for the original). It was written by Anne Katz, RN, PhD, FAAN, … READ MORE …
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For those who are interested, the Answer Cancer Foundation has let us know that they will be holding an educational conference call/webinar at 8:00 pm Eastern (5:00 pm Pacific) today on the subject of bipolar androgen therapy in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Slowly but surely we are seeing increasing recognition in the clinical community of the need to ensure that prostate cancer patients and their spouses/partners really understand the likely consequences of treatment. … READ MORE …
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