JUNE 16: NEW PROSTATE CANCER INFO-LINK: The whole issue of the appropriateness of cancer screening is starting to become a major public health issue, closely and inevitably associated with cancer risk, writes Mike Scott.
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PROSTATE SCREENING: Data supporting cancer screening generally very poor
Posted in Diagnosis, Govt prostate policy, Mis-diagnosis, Prostate advice, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, Public health system, Screening debate, Survival, Treatment debate, tagged aggressive treatment, appropriate medical practice, cancer diagnoses, cancer research, cancer risk, cancer screening, early differential diagnosis, indolent forms of cancer, low risk, major public health issue, medical checkups, Mike Scott, New Prostate Cancer Info-link, physicians’ financial reimbursement, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer treatments, prostate treatment, prostate treatment debate, prostate-specific antigen, PSA, PSA test, Screening debate, urology on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
PROSTATE SCREENING: PSA benefits small, ‘if they exist at all’
Posted in Checkups, Diagnosis, Doctors' advice, Govt prostate policy, Mis-diagnosis, NZ Media coverage, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, PSA tests, Public health system, Screening debate, tagged asymptomatic men, blood test, blood tests, Brian Cox, cancer research, Dunedin School of Medicine, Hugh Adam Cancer Epidemiology unit, large randomised studies, Mary Jane Sneyd, medical checkups, NZ Doctor, NZ epidemiologist, Otago University academic, over-diagnosis, Over-treatment, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate symptoms, prostate treatment debate, prostate-specific antigen, PSA, PSA test, Screening debate on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
JUNE 8: NZ DOCTOR: Some 50 per cent of men diagnosed via the PSA test would never experience symptoms if left untreated, says a NZ epidemiologist who has analysed the large randomised studies reported recently.
PROSTATE MISADVENTURE: Wrong diagnosis, no second opinion – needless surgery
Posted in Diagnosis, Incontinence, Mis-diagnosis, PROSTATE CANCER, Public health system, Radical prostatectomy, tagged Health and Disability Commissioner, needless surgery, Nelson Hospital, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer treatments, prostatectomy, Radical prostatectomy, Ron Paterson, unnecessary prostate surgery, urinary incontinence, wrong diagnosis on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MAY 26: STUFF: NZ Health and Disability Commissioner Ron Paterson has called for more robust systems to be implemented at Nelson Hospital after a man underwent unnecessary prostate surgery.
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