PROSTATE SCREENING: Big studies showed price of 20% cut in deaths is high

JUNE 30: SCIENCE CODEX.COM: The two recently reported large randomised studies in Europe and the US illustrate that the price to pay for 20% reduction in prostate cancer deaths is high – over-diagnosis and over-treatment are great problems.

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PROSTATE SCREENING: ‘Little if any decrease in the risk of dying from this disease’

JUNE 30: EUREKALERT.COM: The recent release of two large randomized trials suggests that if there is a benefit of screening, it is, at best, small, says a new report in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

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PROSTATE TREATMENT: Aggressive spinal rebuild gives good result for some with bone metastates

JUNE 30: URO TODAY: In selected patients with prostate cancer metastases to the spine, aggressive surgical decompression and spinal reconstruction is a useful treatment option.

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PROSTATE RISK: Columnist may be right in linking prostate cancer with folic acid

JUNE 29: PROSTABLOG NZ: Is NZ Herald columnist Deborah Coddington right when she warns of a prostate cancer risk from the mandatory addition of folic acid to bread? In her column today, titled Spoonful of meddling helps the medicine go down, she writes: The New Zealand Food Safety Authority warns we won’t know the effect [...]

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PROSTATE RESEARCH: Worthwhile study on how lifestyle change avoids cancer recurrence

JUNE 28: NEW PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK: A study on the possibility that lifestyle modification will help cancer survivors to avoid the risks that they are at for second malignancies, other comorbidities, and accelerated functional decline seems worthwhile.

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PROSTATE RESEARCH: New report on after effects of salvage brachytherapy

JUNE 28: NEW PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK: Those who receive salvage brachytherapy report a worsening of bowel and urinary symptoms followed by some improvement at 2-3 years of follow-up, while sexual function steadily declines over time.

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PROSTATE RESEARCH: Long-term antibiotic treatment may change PSA levels

JUNE 28: NEW PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK: Researchers conclude that total serum PSA and free/total (f/t) serum PSA levels may change with long-term antibiotic treatment in patients with elevated PSA values.

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PROSTATE RESEARCH: Finding that vitamin D avoids cancer needs further investigation

JUNE 28: NEW PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK: A new review shows vitamin D deficiency may increase risk of cancer – but the findings are based primarily on epidemiological and observational data, with no clinical trial ever done on prostate cancer.

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PROSTATE PAUSE: Apology for no postings yesterday – blogger crook

Prostablog apologises to regular followers for the silence yesterday: the blogger had a very nasty stomach virus. “Bankrupt at both ends,” was the scatalogical epithet used by my father on such occasions. Full blog service has resumed – although the blogger still can’t eat anything. For those outside NZ, “crook” means sick.

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PROSTATE SCREEENING: Budget cut of health campaigns dims chances of prostate push

JUNE 27: PROSTABLOG NZ: Hopes held by the NZ prostate cancer community that the Government might fund a marketing campaign urging men to get checked took a blow this week.

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