In February, a group of researchers initiated a major new survey of patient knowledge about active surveillance as an initial management option for men with lower risk forms of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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A new type of “educational” service has been brought to our attention that uses virtual reality (VR) systems allowing a number of opportunities for men to “talk” to a virtual prostate cancer patient about their own risks for prostate cancer and things like the risks and benefits of PSA testing. … READ MORE …
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In this week’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), there is an interesting article entitled, “Contingent knowledge and looping effects — a 66-year-old man with PSA-detected prostate cancer and regrets”. … READ MORE …
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A week ago we commented on a report about 40 percent of the American population believing that “alternative” forms of therapy could cure cancer. In this week’s issue of Modern Medicine there is an even more staggering set of information. … READ MORE …
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The above headline comes from information released yesterday by the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO). … 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 recent report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, only 5.6 percent of a sample of 3,677 Americans of 18 years of age or older could correctly evaluate four simple statements about cancer screening. … READ MORE …
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A newly published article in BJU International has (finally) proven something many prostate cancer educators and advocates have known for years: many patients have a very poor appreciation of the risks and benefits of their differing treatment options at the time they make decisions about first-line treatment for localized prostate cancer. … 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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Sometimes — your sitemaster is willing to admit — he can become distinctly aggravated by the quality and conclusions of certain types of research related to the management of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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In one more of those utterly unsurprising research findings, a study of newly diagnosed patients has shown that poor patient knowledge about the nature of prostate cancer is associated with “decisional conflict” leading to stress and anxiety given the uncertainty associated with the relative “value” of the many possible management options. … READ MORE …
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According to a newly published study in JAMA Internal Medicine, web-based and print-based decision aids do help men to resolve their own internal conflicts about whether or not to get PSA tests for risk of prostate cancer … READ MORE …
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A new paper in the Journal of Urology has criticized most prostate cancer web sites written for patients because they are not written at an 8th or 9th grade reading skill level (a skill level considered to be available to most American males). … READ MORE …
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What people know at the time they make decisions about having tests for risk of specific cancers is important if they are to be able to make truly informed decisions about the value of these tests. That becomes even more important when we consider the pros and cons of annual, mass, population-based cancer screening tests. … READ MORE …
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There are no recent guidelines regarding the use of PSA tests and digital rectal exams as tests for risk of prostate cancer issued by any of the national organizations representing primary care physicians. However, a new report has provided data about the current behaviors of members of the primary care community at one academic medical center. … READ MORE …
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