A recent report in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) may offer one of the best analyses of an increasing risk for diagnosis with and death from advanced forms of prostate cancer over the period from 2003 to 2017 (the last year for which we have accurate data from the SEER database). … READ MORE …
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The issue of spontaneous remission of low-risk forms of prostate cancer came up yesterday during a meeting of Prostate Cancer International’s Active Surveillance Virtual Support Group (ASVSG). … READ MORE …
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The American Cancer Society (ACS) has just announced its annual projections for cancer incidence and mortality rates for 2018. … READ MORE …
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As it does every year, the American Cancer Society (ACS) has just published it’s annual update cancer statistics update: Cancer Facts & Figures 2017. Those who are interested are of course welcome to peruse this detailed document for themselves. What follows is a quick summary of the prostate cancer-related data in the ACS update. … READ MORE …
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A newly published article in the journal Frontiers in Oncology suggests that men diagnosed with prostate cancer at ≥ 70 years of age may be more likely to die of their prostate cancer than younger men, regardless of their PSA level at diagnosis. … READ MORE …
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Our knowledge about the true incidence of prostate cancer in Africa is still extremely limited. But we know that the risk for prostate cancer among men of African ancestry in the Caribbean and in the Americas is much higher that that of men of European ancestry. … READ MORE …
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A newly published article in European Urology has raised a new issue that should be of significant concern to urologists (and to their patients) in relation to risks associated with the possibility of diagnosis of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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One has to be a very sophisticated statistician to understand how the American Cancer Society (ACS) comes up with its annual estimates for the numbers of people who will get diagnosed with and die of each specific form of cancer in any particular year. (And your sitemaster freely admits that he is not a sophisticated statistician.) … READ MORE …
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Two papers just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association provide the best documentation yet of a significant decline in PSA testing for risk of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Historically there has been a perception that risk for diagnosis with and death from prostate cancer among men of East Asian ethnicity was lower than that among men of European/Caucasian ethnicity. … READ MORE …
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A newly published paper in the journal PLoSOne has addressed the future prevalence of various different clinical states of prostate cancer here in the USA, along with the mortality of the men diagnosed with prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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A newly published analysis by a research team at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine has teased out some additional information about the well-recognized increase in the incidence of neuroendocrine forms of prostate cancer over the past 20 or so years. … READ MORE …
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A newly published article in the British Medical Journal has shown that black males in England are twice as likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer as white males, and are twice as likely to die of prostate cancer too. … READ MORE …
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