UPI: Magnetic resonance imaging could help assess prostate cancers that need more aggressive treatment, US researchers say. READ MORE>
Posts Tagged ‘aggressive treatment’
MRI scans 90% accurate in distinguishing ‘bad’ prostate tumours from less risky
Posted in MRI scans, tagged aggressive treatment, assess prostate cancers, cancer research, catheter, Magnetic resonance imaging, medical checkups, MRI scans, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer screening, prostate-specific antigen, Screening debate, UPI on August 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »
American Cancer Society top medical officer doubts value of prostate cancer screening
Posted in PROSTATE CANCER, Screening debate, tagged aggressive treatment, American Cancer Society, Dr Otis W. Brawley, MSNBC, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, Screening debate, US Senator Christopher Dodd, widespread prostate cancer screening on August 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
AUGUST 6: MSNBC: The value of a widespread prostate cancer screening is questioned by the top medical officer for the American Cancer Society. READ MORE>
“Screening does not clearly save lives and many men who get aggressive treatment clearly do not need aggressive treatment,” Dr Otis W. Brawley said in response to the announcement that US Senator Christopher Dodd has prostate cancer.
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 »
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. READ MORE>
“The New Prostate Cancer Infolink believes we can expect strong feelings to be expressed on both sides of this issue over the next few years, and we want to go on record now as stating that the currently available data for and against the appropriateness of screening for almost every form of cancer is generally very poor.
“We are never going to be able to resolve any of these issues until be get a lot better at at least some — and preferably all — of the following:
- The early differential diagnosis of cancers by clinical risk — in other words, being able to have much better understanding at the time of diagnosis of who really needs aggressive treatment because their cancer may either shorten their life or severely affect its quality.
- Explaining to individual patients why aggressive treatment may not be in their best interests if they have every indication of low risk, indolent forms of cancer.
- Alignment of physicians’ financial reimbursement with truly appropriate medical practice — so that a urologist (for example) is as reasonably compensated for convincing a 70-year-old patient that expectant management is probably an excellent form of care for his prostate cancer, given his particular circumstances, as the urologist would be for carrying out a radical prostatectomy.
- Teaching society that the vast majority of cancer diagnoses have long since ceased to be a death sentence (although there are still plenty of exceptions to that statement).”
PROSTATE SCREENING: Study at odds with view that older men shouldn’t be screened
Posted in PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, PSA tests, Screening debate, tagged aggressive treatment, blood test, blood tests, Brigham and Women's Hospital, cancer research, INSCIENCES, medical checkups, older men, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate-specific antigen, PSA, PSA test, Screening debate, unfavorable-risk prostate cancer, US Preventive Task Force recommendation on June 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
JUNE 6: INSCIENCES: Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the US have found that older men, who are otherwise healthy, benefit from aggressive treatment for unfavorable-risk prostate cancer, a finding that draws contrasts with a recent US Preventive Task Force recommendation stating that older men should not be screened for prostate cancer. READ MORE>