Unsurprisingly, your sitemaster’s interest was piqued by a paper in BMC Health Services Research on the use of patient educational technology (PET) as a core component of their clinical practice in prostate cancer management by two urology practices in Calgary, Canada. … READ MORE …
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As yet there are no published data at all (that we are aware of) on the clinical application of irreversible electroporation (NanoKnife®) technology in the treatment of localized prostate cancer. However, we know there is growing curiosity and so we thought it might be useful to offer readers links to the reasonably reliable source information that is available on the web. … READ MORE …
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Luke Timmerman is a nationally respected health care journalist who specializes in writing about new healthcare technologies and writes regulary for an online business web site called Xconomy.com. Recently he took a tour of the new, $152 million ProCure proton beam radiation facility in Seattle. Click here to get his take.
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We are probably all aware that the “commercialization” of medicine in the past 30+ years — in association with the development of new technologies that may (or may not) actually improve outcomes for individual patients — has driven up medical costs. Many hospitals and doctors want to generate revenue (and profits); so do most developers of new drugs and devices. … READ MORE …
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Craig Turner, MD, practices urology in Portland, Oregon, and for the past 6 years or so he has been carrying out laparoscopic radical prostatectomies with the help of a da Vinci robot … but he doesn’t seem to think this has made him a better prostate cancer surgeon. … READ MORE …
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There’s an interesting interview with Dr. Anthony Zeitman — the president of the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) — in the most recent issue of The ASCO Post — a news magazine distributed to members of ASCO. … READ MORE …
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THE "NEW" PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK 