If you’ve got prostate cancer and you’re drinking calcium-rich trim milk, STOP!

JULY 31: PROSTABLOG NZ: Prostate cancer patients who think drinking calcium-fortified trim milk is a good way to maintain health need to read this.

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‘Nomograms’ best way to predict whether you’ll survive prostate cancer and for how long

JULY 31: URO TODAY: What’s the most accurate way your specialist can predict your fate when you first learn you have prostate cancer? Using something called a nomogram, according to latest analysis.

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Screening men for prostate cancer would increase discovery by five times, says new UK study

JULY 31: URO TODAY: If population-based screening and testing were adopted in the UK, five times as many men would be diagnosed with prostate cancer, a new study has concluded.

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NZ health ministry publishes new set of guidelines for cancer nurses

JULY 31: NZ MINISTRY OF HEALTH: A set of guidelines for registered working in cancer control has just been published by the New Zealand Ministry of Health.

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Continuity of care from ‘trusted’ health carers is key to cutting prostate cancer risks

JULY 31: MEDICAL NEWS TODAY: Trusted health care sources and continuity of care may help reduce the risk of prostate cancer deaths in African-American men, according to a study published in the current issue of the journal Cancer.

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Indian men in NZ urged to get themselves tested for prostate cancer

JULY 31: INDIAN NEWSLINK: NZ politician Dr Jackie Blue (a National list MP) is urging men in the country’s Indian communities to avail themselves of cancer screening.

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Rapid knowledge gain about hormone therapy resistance opportunity for development of new drugs

JULY 31: URO TODAY: Knowledge of the molecular and cellular changes that occur during the transition of hormone-naïve to castration-resistant prostate cancer is increasing rapidly.

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Various immune cells found in hormone therapy patients may lift or cut risk of advanced prostate cancer

JULY 31: URO TODAY: Higher levels of immune cells called CD68(+) macrophages found in patients having androgen deprivation therapy may be associated with greater risk of advanced prostate cancer, according to a study in Quebec.

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Fundamental change to US medical system depends on ‘prostate cancer test’

JULY 31: David Leonhardt, NEW YORK TIMES: The “prostate cancer test” will determine whether President Obama and Congress put together a bill that begins to fix the fundamental problem with our medical system: the combination of soaring costs and mediocre results.

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Researchers look at outcome of combining brachytherapy with whole-pelvis radiotherapy to treat high-risk prostate cancer

JULY 31: URO TODAY: Researchers have investigated whether whole-pelvis radiotherapy in combination with interstitial brachytherapy – thus covering the pelvic lymph nodes – improves treatment outcome in high-risk prostate cancer.

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