US prostate cancer foundation applauds new legislation

THE MEDICAL NEWS: As hundreds of prostate cancer researchers, advocates and supporters Advance on Washington this week and push for more progress in fighting the disease, the Prostate Cancer Foundation applauds the prostate cancer legislation introduced on Tuesday by Senator Jon Tester of Montana. READ MORE> and HERE>

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Maori and prostate cancer – latest research shows shocking trends haven’t improved

PROSTABLOG NZ: If you’re Maori and poor in New Zealand, you have less chance of being diagnosed early with prostate cancer – and you’re got a 60% greater chance than non-Maori of dying . These and other findings are in a major new report just released by the NZ Ministry of Health, whose researchers looked [...]

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How come NZ death rate from prostate cancer is six times higher than in the US?

PROSTABLOG NZ: If only 3% of US men diagnosed with prostate cancer die, what’s happening in NZ, where the proportion is 20%? The 3% figure pops up in Mike Scott‘s latest discussion on PSA testing for prostate cancer, when he says: …the number of men in America who die of prostate cancer today is believed [...]

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Prostate cancer the most common, but not the biggest killer

PROSTABLOG NZ: Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in NZ, says Minister of Health Tony Ryall, but the biggest killer is lung cancer. READ MORE>

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NZ Ministry of Health releases latest cancer death figures – prostate way up there

PROSTABLOG NZ: For NZ males, prostate cancer accounted for 28.6 percent of all cancer registrations in 2007, reports the NZ Ministry of Health, with the next-most-common registrations being colorectal cancer and malignant melanoma of the skin. READ MORE>

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Prostate screening story doesn’t change much in NZ

PROSTABLOG NZ: The ideological debate about prostate cancer screening hasn’t moved along much in New Zealand over the past few years. I’m judging this from an anecdote a guest speaker at my journalism course told students this week. An experienced journalist, she said a few years ago she was writing a piece for NZ Listener [...]

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Latest NZ Ministry of Health prostate cancer projections given odd man out treatment

PROSTABLOG NZ: Rates of prostate cancer detected in NZ are expected to rise about 23% in the decade leading up to 2016, moving from 91 cases per 100,000 to 112. That’s the finding of a Ministry of Health cancer projection report released late last month, but only just picked up by news media (none of [...]

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Prostate cancer survival among NZ patients improved 12% in the seven years to 2006

PROSTABLOG NZ: The survival rate for prostate cancer patients in NZ increased more than 12% in the seven years to 2005, according to the Ministry of Health.

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NEW REPORT: Big disparities in cancer detection and treatment suffered by Maori, Pacific people

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.

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NZ government issues new guidelines to GPs on how to handle prostate cancer patients

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 [...]

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