There’s no simple way to prevent the onset of prostate cancer or to prevent its progression over time (e.g., based on diet or taking supplements or exercising like a maniac). However, … READ MORE …
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As the Democratic Party discovered this week in Iowa, apps can have problems. However, there are also apps that prove to be very useful straight out of the gate — and they can be improved over time too. … READ MORE …
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A newly published study from a group of German researchers examined the degree to which participation in patient support group activities increased prostate cancer patients’ health literacy and, specifically, their prostate cancer‐specific and non‐cancer‐specific knowledge about health care. … READ MORE …
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According to a media release issued yesterday, Genomic Health has now made available a commercial test for risk of the AR-V7 mutation in men with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). … READ MORE …
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A team of researchers at the University of Calgary in Canada is seeking men with a history of prostate cancer willing to complete a survey related to men’s sexuality. … READ MORE …
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This evening at 6:00 pm Eastern time we shall be continuing our conversation with Dr. Paul Schellhammer regarding ways to encourage patients to be able to “live well” after a diagnosis of prostate cancer. Click here to get the detailed information and join the discussion. … READ MORE …
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A new article in BJU International has suggested the possibility that Prostate Health Index density (i.e., a patient’s phi score divided by his prostate volume) may be able to predict the probability of a finding of clinically significant prostate cancer on biopsy. … READ MORE …
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There’s a new paper in an open-access journal called eCancer Medical Science that is asking a really tough question about links between unemployment and risk for prostate cancer mortality in the European Union nations. … READ MORE …
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Why is it that we seem to be so focused on testing for risk of prostate cancer in older men with life expectancies of < 10 years, i.e., men who are almost certainly at very low risk for clinically significant disease? … READ MORE …
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Here in the USA — and in some other countries too — there is an ongoing debate about whether patients should have broad access to their personal health records (including things like laboratory results, physician notes, etc.). … 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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In an article just published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, the American Cancer Society has updated its guidance to cancer survivors about things like diet, exercise, and the use of dietary supplements in managing quality of life and survival during and after treatment for cancer. … READ MORE …
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A recent article in the Journal of Urology offers some insight into the risk for a diagnosis of prostate cancer in a large, relatively young cohort of men undergoing regular health checks in the period between 1991 and 2008. … READ MORE …
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When men are initially diagnosed with localized prostate cancer, they face numerous management options — including watchful waiting and active surveillance under appropriate circumstances. In general, physicians tend to recommend treatment if the patient’s reasonable life expectancy is 10 years or more. … READ MORE …
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Neither The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink nor the vast majority of Americans really look at the recent health care reform controversy as “all good” or “all bad.” … READ MORE …
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