URO TODAY: Different environmental and/or genetic factors mean prostate cancer arises for different reasons in Western men when compared with those from China, research finds. READ MORE> Our findings suggest that tumors arise in Western and Chinese populations by alternative pathogenetic mechanisms.
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Chinese men get prostate cancer for different reasons than those in the West
Posted in ETHNICITY, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, PROSTATE RISKS, tagged alternative pathogenetic mechanisms, cancer research, catheter, Chinese men, environmental and/or genetic factors, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, URO TODAY, Western men on June 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Chathams women take hard line with their men over prostate cancer awareness
Posted in Blue September, Doctors' advice, ETHNICITY, Maori mortality, Prostate advice, PROSTATE CANCER, tagged Air Chatham, Blue September, Chatham, Chatham Islands, Chatham Islands Māori Community Health, Chathams, encouragement of wives, fishermen and farmers, Hao Te Ora o Wharekauri Trust, Joe Tapara (Ngāti Ruanui), Kaingaroa Harbour, Maori TV, medical checkups, Owenga, partners and mothers, Port Hutt, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer awareness, Prostate Cancer Foundation of NZ, prostate cancer screening, prostate cancer treatments, prostate treatment, Te Āti Awa Iwi, urology, Whitireia journalism on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WHITIREIA journalism student CARL SUURMOND went to the Chatham Islands with the Prostate Cancer Foundation last weekend. Here’s his first report (see below for his SLIDE SHOW): PROSTABLOG NZ: The men of the Chatham Islands are a tough breed of fishermen and farmers whose work environments have shaped their hardwearing demeanour – but it’s the [...]
President Obama’s prostate cancer awareness backing helps build awareness
Posted in Blue September, ETHNICITY, PROSTATE CANCER, tagged Obama's prostate proclamation, President Obama, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer treatments, US Prostate Cancer Foundation on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
US PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: Proclamations like President Obama’s will help the US Prostate Cancer Foundation build awareness and support for finding better treatments and cures for prostate cancer.
Chathams men will benefit from prostate cancer speaker’s chance meeting
Posted in ETHNICITY, Maori mortality, NZ Prostate Cancer Foundation, PROSTATE CANCER, PSA tests, tagged Chatham, Chatham Island men, Chatham Islands, Chatham Islands men, Chatham Islands Māori Community Health, Dene Ainsworth, first-ever Maori men's health conference, Maori and Moriori ancestry, Maori men, Maori Television presenter Julian Wilcox, Mauriora-ki-te-Ao/Living Universe Ltd, medical checkups, Moriori, Māori knowledge people and resources, Napier urologist Dave Mason, Native Affairs, Ngāti Rahiri, Owae marae, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, Prostate Cancer Foundation of NZ, prostate cancer screening, prostate-specific antigen, PSA, PSA test, Screening debate, Tane Ora, Te Ati Awa, Whitireia Journalism School on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
PROSTABLOG NZ: A chance meeting between two Maori men may affect the future well-being of 135 males living on the Chatham Islands.
Younger men are being diagnosed with prostate cancer, according to latest US statistics.
Posted in Age factors, Diagnosis, ETHNICITY, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, Young patients, tagged cancer research, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, racuial disparity, URO TODAY, younger prostate patients on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
URO TODAY: More US men were diagnosed with prostate cancer at a younger age and earlier stage in 2004-2005 than in earlier years and the racial disparity in cancer stage at diagnosis has decreased statistically significantly over time.
NEW REPORT: Big disparities in cancer detection and treatment suffered by Maori, Pacific people
Posted in Doctors' advice, ETHNICITY, Govt prostate policy, Maori mortality, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, Public health system, Screening debate, Treatment debate, tagged "cultural competence" training, BreastScreen South Limited, cancer guidelines for GPs, cancer research, cancer statistics, ethnic disparities, Maori and prostate cancer, Maori cancer cases, Maori cancer deaths, Ministry of Health, NZ Guidelines Group, Pacific people and cancer, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer screening, prostate cancer treatments, prostate treatment, prostate treatment debate, Screening debate, Suspected Cancer in Primary Care on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
PROSTABLOG NZ: Maori and Pacific people living in NZ suffer big disparities in the way cancer is detected and treated, and how they survive it.
NZ government issues new guidelines to GPs on how to handle prostate cancer patients
Posted in Diagnosis, Govt prostate policy, Maori mortality, PROSTATE CANCER, PSA tests, Public health system, Screening debate, Uncategorized, tagged an enlarged, blood in urine, blood test, blood tests, care and mortality disparities b, detection, digital diagnosis, digital examination, digital rectal examination, Enlarged prostate, Erectile function, European Kiwis., frequency, GP advice on prostate, Guidelines for investigation, hesitancy, how to handle prostate symptoms, lower urinary tract symptoms, macroscopic haematuria, Maori, nocturia, NZ Guidelines Group, NZ Ministry of Health, Pacific people, Parliamentary inquiry into prostate cancer, population-based screening, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer screening, prostate cancer treatments, prostate treatment debate, prostate-specific antigen, PSA, PSA test, referral and reducing ethnic disparities, smooth prostate, Suspected Cancer in Primary Care on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
PROSTABLOG NZ: New guidelines for general practitioners on how to handle men presenting with possible symptoms of prostate cancer (and other cancers) were released today by the NZ Ministry of Health. READ MORE> and HERE (summary)> The advice is contained in a 174-page report from the Ministry-backed NZ Guidelines Group called Suspected Cancer in Primary [...]
NZ government announces $20 million Maori health ‘innovation’ fund – but no mention of prostate cancer
Posted in ETHNICITY, Govt prostate policy, Maori mortality, PROSTATE CANCER, Public health system, tagged Associate Minister of Health, biggest killers of Maori men, Guide to Te Ao Auahatanga Hauora Māori, hapū, He Korowai Oranga, iwi and their wider communities., Maori and prostate cancer, Maori health innovations fund, Māori Health Innovation Fund, Māori Health Strategy, Māori service providers, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer treatments, prostate treatment, Tariana Turia, whānau, whānau ora on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
PROSTABLOG NZ: A new $20 million “Maori health innovations fund” has been announced by the Associate Minister of Health, Tariana Turia – but it makes no mention of one of the biggest killers of Maori men, prostate cancer.
African American men get a worse deal from medics over prostate cancer than Caucasians
Posted in ETHNICITY, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, tagged African-American men, cancer research, Caucasian men, medical checkups, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate medical professionals, prostate treatment, URO TODAY on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
URO TODAY: African American men have a less satisfactory experience than Caucasians when dealing with medical professionals over prostate cancer, a study of more than 1000 men has found.
African Americans with advanced prostate cancer have 50% greater chance of dying
Posted in ETHNICITY, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, PROSTATE RISKS, tagged advanced prostate cancer, African Americans and prostate cancer, cancer research, higher death rate, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer treatments, prostate treatment, prostate treatment debate, URO TODAY on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
URO TODAY: Overall survival for African American advanced prostate cancer patients versus all other patients was 6% versus 9%, according to analysis of data involving nearly 20,000 US cancer patients treated between between 1974 and 2001.
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