A third, and interesting, late-breaking poster to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Urological Association looked into patient perspectives on quality of life as opposed to quantity of life in prostate cancer treatment decision making. … READ MORE …
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There is a lot of media hype about a paper just published in the online journal EBioScience. The paper suggests that it may, perhaps, be able to project risk for diagnosis of cancer (prostate cancer specifically included) as much as 13 years before the actual event. … READ MORE …
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The fact that there is a significant degree of risk for a reduction in penile length after radical prostatectomy for the treatment of localized prostate cancer is very definitely not news (despite the fact that all too few surgeons advise their patients of such a risk). However, an accurate assessment of the probability of this risk has never been well established. … READ MORE …
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In July 2010 we commented on an article in The Daily Mail that was based on data from a team of Korean researchers who’d been busily measuring the lengths of the second and fourth fingers of the right hands of men presenting at their urology clinic. They were convinced that there was a correlation between relative finger length and risk for prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Over the years a number of studies have documented a reduction in penile size after open radical retropubic prostatectomy. A newly published study reports on the impact of robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) and penile rehabilitation on penile size. … READ MORE …
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Sometimes it is difficult to decide who to be more irritated at … the researchers who publish highly dubious data, the PR people who send out the breathless press releases touting the highly dubious data, or the media that actually publish these data as if they are correct and/or important. … READ MORE …
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THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK 