I'm going to go ahead and answer that with a big YES! But with the caveat that the breadth and scope of our awareness has to expand if we have any hope of ever comprehensively addressing the issues that surround this awful disease. Knowing it's there does scarcely little good with no clear path for [...]
This is a follow-up to a post I wrote called, "PSA Testing: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". http://prostatecancerblog.net/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=2120. Please read that before you read this. Dr. Richard Ablin, father of the PSA test, argued in a New York Times op-ed piece recently that the widespread, routine use of the test to screen for prostate cancer [...]
I just saw that Dana Jennings, who writes a blog about his prostate cancer for the NYT, is discussing language and cancer. So I recycled this essay I wrote some time back. It amazes me that doctors still use the word biochemical failure to refer to a recurrence of prostate cancer. A doctor told me, [...]
A story about prostate cancer (PC) screening titled "The Great Prostate Mistake" which appeared in the New York Times last week, "went viral". Everybody's talking about it. (See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/opinion/10Ablin.html?scp=1&sq=ablin&st=cse) I refer to an opinion piece written by Dr. Richard Ablin, a researcher in immunobiology and pathology who invented the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test in 1970, the most commonly used [...]
I am reposting this from the blog, "All Things Prostate", written by Dr. Michael Glode, a genito-urinary oncologist at the University of Colorodo Medical Center . . It is a commentary about an article called, "The Great Prostate Mistake", which appeared in the New York Times a few days ago. The author of this article is Richard Ablin, an immunologist [...]