Posted on December 27, 2016 by Sitemaster
Editorial note: The following is an anonymous commentary that has been posted twice to this web site in recent days. Parts of it are factually accurate. Some of it is certainly factually inaccurate. Most of it appears to refer to the situation here in America. And a lot of it is personal opinion (as the author states). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: Diagnosis, opinion, over-treatment, personal, risk, Treatment | 18 Comments »
Posted on August 20, 2015 by Sitemaster
For years, physicians and their patients diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer believed that those patients were at high risk for progressive disease over time. And physicians and their patients diagnosed with a form of breast cancer known as ductal carcinoma in situ or DCIS had similar beliefs. … READ MORE …
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Posted on December 4, 2014 by Sitemaster
According to a paper newly published in Cancer, “Men aged < 80 years at diagnosis who have life expectancies < 10 years often receive aggressive treatment for low-risk and intermediate-risk prostate cancer, mostly with radiation therapy.” … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: Co-morbidity, life expectancy, over-treatment, risk | 5 Comments »
Posted on January 11, 2014 by Sitemaster
There is an interesting new article just published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute describing a nomogram designed to estimate risk for over-diagnosis of men diagnosed with prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Posted on October 31, 2013 by Sitemaster
Yesterday, Medscape Oncology published a brief interview with Dr. Laura Esserman (under the title “Cancer screening: when less is more“) that will be of interest to a number of our regular readers. … READ MORE …
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Posted on June 26, 2013 by Sitemaster
So there’s a lot of media coverage this morning about an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggesting that, here in the USA, more men with low-risk forms of localized prostate cancer are getting more expensive types of treatment for their cancer (and that much of this treatment may be of dubious value). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment, Uncategorized | Tagged: low risk, Medicare, mortality, over-treatment | 13 Comments »
Posted on June 7, 2012 by Sitemaster
The potential problems associated with over-diagnosis and over-treatment that have been much debated in the world of prostate cancer over the past few years actually go well beyond prostate cancer. … READ MORE ..
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Posted on July 27, 2011 by Sitemaster
A conversation between two extremely knowledgeable prostate cancer advocates in comments on an earlier post has highlighted the underlying problem of what we mean by “over-diagnosis” and “over-treatment” of prostate cancer in a highly educational manner. … READ MORE …
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Posted on July 20, 2011 by Sitemaster
Two recent publications have offered evidence that, at 10 and 12 years of follow-up, the potential benefits of surgical treatment for low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer did not include any impact on overall survival for men of 65 years of age or more at the time of surgery. … READ MORE …
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Posted on January 11, 2011 by Sitemaster
In recent years, it has become increasingly well understood that patients diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer are potentially susceptible to over-treatment. This is particularly the case among men who have significant degrees of co-morbidity and men greater than 75 years of age who have a life expectancy of < 15 years. … READ MORE …
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Posted on July 27, 2010 by Sitemaster
There is a good deal of media noise today about a newly published study in Archives of Internal Medicine. The study addresses the “risk profiles and treatment patterns” of US prostate cancer patients diagnosed with a PSA of ≤ 4.0 ng/ml.” … READ MORE …
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Posted on August 31, 2009 by Sitemaster
Are we over-treating 50,000 men each year? Could it be even more? … READ MORE …
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