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Biopsy practices not ideal for avoiding over-treatment of prostate cancer
Posted in Over-treatment, tagged Biopsy, cancer research, catheter, comparison of treatments, less drastic focal therapy for prostate cancer, prostablog, prostate, prostate biopsy protocols, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer overtreatment, prostate cancer screening, prostate treatment debate, PSA, Screening debate, URO TODAY on August 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
PROSTATE DEBATE: Prostate screening ‘no more justified than breast cancer screening’
Posted in Checkups, Diagnosis, Govt prostate policy, Over-treatment, PROSTATE CANCER, Prostate media coverage, PROSTATE RESEARCH, PSA tests, Public health system, Screening debate, SELECT COMMITTEE INQUIRY, Treatment debate, tagged "over-reaction", age, America’s Prostate Cancer Organizations, analysis of screening, “over-diagnosis” and “over-treatment.”, baseline” PSA testing, blood tests, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, cancer research, clinically significant prostate cancer, family history, global prostate debate, informative discussion, life expectancy, loaded language, mammograms, mass, Media reporting, medical checkups, Mike Scott, New England Journal of Medicine, New Prostate Cancer Info-link, parliamentary select committee on health, population-based screening, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, Prostate inquiry, prostate treatment debate, prostate-specific antigen, PSA, PSA test, race/ethnicity, regular, Screening debate, Testing for Prostate Cancer, two large randomised studies on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
JULY 3: PROSTABLOG NZ: In what seems to be exquisite timing, NZ’s parliamentary select committee on health is starting an inquiry into prostate cancer screening – just as some of what seems like the best recent analysis of screening emerges in medicine-leaders, the US.
PROSTATE ULTRASOUND: Many in favourable UK study may not have needed treatment at all
Posted in Erectile function, Over-treatment, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, Treatment debate, Watchful waiting, tagged cancer research, HIFU, low risk, New Prostate Cancer Info-link, organ-confined prostate cancer, Over-treatment, post-treatment erectile dysfunction, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer treatments, prostate treatment, prostate treatment debate, transrectal whole-gland high-intensity focused ultrasound, UK study, Ultrasound on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
JULY 3: NEW PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK: Results from a UK study show the potential of transrectal, whole-gland, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in patients with low risk, organ-confined prostate cancer.
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