It is becoming very clear that over the next 5 to 10 years we will develop a whole new spectrum of urine-based tests for the assessment of risk for prostate cancer and whether a specific patient will actually need a biopsy and/or other tests to confirm diagnosis. … READ MORE…
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One of our regular correspondents (who lives in England) was recently told something rather interesting by the Consultant Urologist he sees in the UK. … READ MORE …
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Nearly 30 years ago, when your sitemaster first attended a prostate cancer meeting (in 1989) related to the upcoming approval of a new drug called flutamide, he doesn’t remember there being a single clinician at the meeting who was female — out of the 150 or so urologists and medical oncologists who had been invited. … READ MORE …
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Just in case most of our readers are so old that they have forgotten … severe acne is one of the traumatizing events of male (and female) adolescence. I mean, “Duh. Whose gonna wanna to date me when … READ MORE …
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Well … apparently a number of the readers of this web site may have sci-fi personas in their future. We won’t spoil the fun in this one: just click here!
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At a 4-hour meeting yesterday afternoon here in New Orleans there was intense discussion of issues related to the future of focal therapy and (potentially) to the approval of new types of device and technologies that might be able to deliver focal therapy. … READ MORE …
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We are probably all aware that the “commercialization” of medicine in the past 30+ years — in association with the development of new technologies that may (or may not) actually improve outcomes for individual patients — has driven up medical costs. Many hospitals and doctors want to generate revenue (and profits); so do most developers of new drugs and devices. … READ MORE …
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According to a new set of projections just published in The Lancet this morning, the total global burden of new cases of cancer will increase by about 75 percent (from 12.7 million in 2008 to 22.2 million in 2030) over the next 30-odd years. … READ MORE …
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For nearly 20 years America has conducted a massive experiment based on an unproven hypothesis … that we could significantly reduce prostate cancer mortality rates if we gave every man over 50 a PSA test and a physical examination (using a DRE) every single year. But it’s not true, … and it’s time to face up to that reality. … READ MORE …
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