URO TODAY: An online screening decision aid for men with a family history of prostate cancer has been developed by a Sydney university. READ MORE>
Posts Tagged ‘family history of prostate cancer’
Aussies develop website to help men with family history of prostate cancer
Posted in Family history, PROSTATE CANCER, tagged cancer research, catheter, Faculty of Medicine University of New South Wales, family history of prostate cancer, medical checkups, online screening decision aid, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer screening, URO TODAY on July 18, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Is ‘opt out’ the answer to conundrum over whether or not men should be offered prostate cancer tests?
Posted in PROSTATE CANCER, PSA tests, Screening debate, tagged American Cancer Society, Biopsy, blood test, blood tests, Enlarged prostate, ethnic risk for prostate cancer, family history of prostate cancer, individual decision-making, medical checkups, Mike Scott, New Prostate Cancer Info-link, opt out, population-based testing, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, prostate cancer screening, prostate-specific antigen, PSA, PSA test, Screening debate on October 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK: Rather than having to ask for a prostate cancer test, men should be offered it but have the right to “opt out”. READ MORE>
That’s the novel view put forward by top US prostate cancer website New Prostate Cancer Infolink, whose administrator, Mike Scott, writes:
The way we see this is that men should have an “opt out” clause that allows them not to get tested for prostate cancer risk.
This is a very American option. One can argue over whether it is right or wrong, but it clearly leaves the decision in the hands of the individual.
His latest blog looks at the somewhat ambivalent views of the American Cancer Society:
It would…be helpful, if the ACS’s chief medical officer would be so kind as to articulate the ACS’s official position with clarity, as opposed to his tendency to articulate his personal opinion about “screening” (ie, mass, population-based testing of everyone), so that the average man in the street was getting a clear message about what the ACS actually does recommend.
Scott’s view is:
…the following people should absolutely be getting PSA tests and physical exams as a means of assessing their risk for clinically significant prostate cancer starting somewhere between 40 and 50 years of age depending on their risk factors:
- Any man with a family history of prostate cancer
- Any man with an ethnic risk for prostate cancer (specifically including African Americans)
- Any man who requests such tests
- Any man who asks his physician to decide whether he should get such tests for him
In addition:
- Every man should be having a conversation with his doctor to discuss the relative risks and benefits of testing to detect possible risk for prostate cancer.
PROSTATE MARKER: Gene may give early warning for ‘cancer family’ patients
Posted in Biomarkers, Checkups, Diagnosis, New tests, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, tagged cancer family, cancer research, early-onset cancer, family history of prostate cancer, genetic marker, medical checkups, NEWS SCIENCE, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer treatments, prostate treatment on May 24, 2009| Leave a Comment »
MAY 24: NEWS SCIENCE: A genetic marker associated with an earlier onset of prostate cancer in Caucasian men with a family history of prostate cancer has been identified by US researchers. A medical oncologist will present data on the finding at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology on Saturday. READ MORE>
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