BEWARE OF INEXPERIENCED PROSTATE CANCER SURGEONS

[From physorg.com. All emphasis, e.g., boldface or italic typeface, is mine.] "Prostate Cancer Surgery Performed by Many Surgeons with Little Experience" November 19, 2009 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has found that the majority of surgeons treating prostate cancer in the United States have extremely low annual caseloads, [...]

By |2020-02-04T11:45:29-05:00November 20th, 2009|Postings|2 Comments

Jersey Wives Prostate Cancer Calender Hurts Gay Cancer survivors

Prostate Cancer Calendar 2010 with wives of Prostate Cancer patients, produced by the New Jersey Prostate Cancer Coalition is facing negative criticism for it's purely heterosexual bias. Twelve New Jersey wives have posed nude for a prostate cancer awareness calendar called, "Stand By Your Man: 12 Women in Support of a Cure for Prostate Cancer." [...]

By |2009-11-16T11:29:19-05:00November 16th, 2009|Treatment News|0 Comments

Prostate Cancer with a Gleason 7 – Different Outcomes Between Gleason 4 + 3 and Gleason 3 + 4 – Changing Treatment Directions

A Gleason Score of 7 is often looked at as a middle range score, but clearly not as serious as an 8 or 9 score. Some recently combined research performed at the Department of Urology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington and the Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research [...]

Medicines to Deter Some Cancers Are Not Taken, Comments about A NYT Article

GINA KOLATA, in her continuing series in the New York Times, on the war against cancer, published in today’s edition another story that has great relevance for us advanced prostate cancer survivors. The story is about American’s failure to take certain drugs that have been demonstrated to prevent cancer while Americans are very happy to [...]

By |2017-10-19T10:54:15-04:00November 13th, 2009|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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