Posted on July 26, 2021 by Sitemaster
As of Friday (July 22), we had received more than 250 responses to our brief survey on research into active surveillance. Most of these are from patients and some from their familial supporters (spouses, partners, etc.). However,we are still interested in getting more input — especially from clinicians, including specialists, generalists, and allied health personnel like urology nurses! … READ MORE …
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Posted on June 22, 2021 by Sitemaster
A diverse group of patients, patient advocates, patient spouses/supporters, physicians, and other researchers has come together, with funding support from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), to plan a virtual conference for the fall of 2021. At that conference, we intend to discuss and identify new and evolving opportunities for research into the most appropriate, high-need, high-impact topics affecting the use of active surveillance (AS) for the management of favorable-risk forms of prostate cancer (i.e., low-risk and “favorable” intermediate-risk disease). … READ MORE …
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Posted on March 22, 2021 by Sitemaster
As some of our readers will already be aware, Prostate Cancer International has been working in concert with Dr. M. Mihaj Siddiqui at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the PATIENTS program at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy to put together a grant request for funding for a program to identify evidence gaps to guide future research on the use of active surveillance to monitor low-risk prostate cancers. … READ MORE …
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Posted on November 17, 2020 by Sitemaster
If you are someone who can spare a few bucks to support research into prostate cancer (and particularly the more aggressive forms of prostate cancer), please read on … READ MORE …
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Posted on August 12, 2020 by Sitemaster
We have recently learned that Movember conducted a major landscape analysis of unmet research needs in prostate cancer that started back in 2017 and ran through 2019 but just got published in 2020. … READ MORE …
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Posted on July 29, 2019 by Sitemaster
Apparently the US Air Force (USAF) has become concerned that being a fighter pilot may increase risk for a diagnosis of prostate cancer. For those who are interested, here’s a link to the relevant article on the McClatchy news service. … READ MORE …
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Posted on July 3, 2019 by Sitemaster
Andrew Vickers, PhD, who works at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, is not a physician. He is a statistician and a research methodologist. And he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board to The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink. … READ MORE …
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Posted on May 19, 2019 by Sitemaster
The roles of patients, patient advocates, and other members of the public in decision-making about the research that is funded by NIH and other agencies here in America is sadly somewhat limited, … READ MORE …
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Posted on May 9, 2019 by Sitemaster
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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Posted on January 18, 2019 by Sitemaster
The RESPOND study, which was initiated in July last year, appears to be the largest-ever study of risk factors for prostate cancer among the African American community, and probably among Black men worldwide. … READ MORE …
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Posted on June 27, 2018 by Sitemaster
Some 35+ years ago, a guy called Barry Marshall and his colleague Robin Warren discovered that changes to the levels of certain bacteria in the gut led to development of ulcers … and changed everything about the way ulcers are treated. … READ MORE …
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Posted on April 12, 2018 by Sitemaster
According to an announcement on Tuesday from 10 Downing Street in London, Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, has committed to investing £75 million (about US$106 million) in prostate cancer research. … READ MORE …
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Posted on April 12, 2018 by Sitemaster
Once upon a time (and not so long ago) newly diagnosed men with some types of prostate cancer used to think your sitemaster was out of his tiny mind when he would suggest to them that they might be wise to just monitor their situation rather than rush into treatment. … READ MORE …
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Posted on April 4, 2018 by Sitemaster
Nearly 30 years ago, when your sitemaster first attended a prostate cancer meeting (in 1989) related to the upcoming approval of a new drug called flutamide, he doesn’t remember there being a single clinician at the meeting who was female — out of the 150 or so urologists and medical oncologists who had been invited. … READ MORE …
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Posted on March 26, 2018 by Sitemaster
When it passed the Omnibus appropriations bill for the financial year 2018 at the end of last week, Congress increased funding for prostate cancer research from $80 to $100 million through the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDRMP). … READ MORE …
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