Many patients, prostate cancer advocates, and prostate cancer educators may be interested in a recent article exploring how physicians who manage prostate cancer regularly think about active surveillance (AS) and how to discuss this with their patients. … READ MORE …
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Your sitemaster is uncertain whether to feel delighted or seriously concerned by the fact that the American Society for Medical Oncology (ASCO) has decided to issue guidelines for its members on how to communicate with patients. … READ MORE …
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Many readers might want to know of and read an article by Richard Wassersug entitled “Common courtesy can humanize cancer care“, which you can find on the web site of The Conversation. … READ MORE …
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A newly published article on the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine offers some helpful guidance to primary care physicians on the subject of prostate cancer diagnosis and its management. … READ MORE …
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There’s a new slide presentation on the Medscape web site that is designed to help primary care physicians keep up to date on the initial diagnosis of prostate cancer and its implications. … READ MORE …
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Many readers of this news blog may want to listen to or read Dr. Gerald Chodak’s latest video blog on the Medscape Oncology web site. … READ MORE …
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The August 15 issue of American Family Physician — supposedly one of the most widely read medical journals in America — carried an article by Mohan and Schellhammer entitled “Treatment options for localized prostate cancer.” Unfortunately the full text of this article is not available on line for the average reader. … READ MORE …
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A report in Family Medicine gives us some insight into the views of primary care physicians (PCPs) with respect to PSA testing for prostate cancer risk and the appropriate roles of the patient and the physician in the decision to have or not have PSA tests. … READ MORE …
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A small study from the University of Miami has confirmed the unsurprising but important information that patients are heavily influenced by physicians in their decision to elect (or not elect) active surveillance (AS) as a management option for low-risk prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Following the recent decision in the UK not to implement a broad, national, PSA-based, prostate cancer screening initiative (on which we have previously commented), many readers will be interested in the reactions and thoughts of John Neate, the executive director of the UK’s Prostate Cancer Charity, which appear in today’s issue of The Guardian newspaper. … READ MORE …
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It is common for patients to suggest that primary care physicians should be more knowledgeable about the appropriate use of PSA testing and about how to interpret the results of such tests. However, changing physician behavior is not an easy or a quick process, as the following article will demonstrate. … READ MORE …
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A recent article (and an associated editorial) in the Archives of Internal Medicine evaluated how visits to specialists and primary care physicians (PCPs) by men with localized prostate cancer are related to treatment choice. … READ MORE …
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