New Prostate Cancer Marker In Urine Could Help Us To Know When The Cancer Is Aggressive And Needs Treatment

In experiments reported in the journal Nature, scientists from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have identified 10 metabolites that become more profuse in prostate cells as the cancer progresses. They identified one of these metabolites, sarcosine, as appearing to be directly related to prostate cancer cell invasion into surrounding tissue. We constantly hear the complaint [...]

Study Suggests Some Cancers May Go Away

Woman should not be given mammograms for the same reason that men should not have PSA tests! This is the conclusion that would be very easy to come away with after reading an article in today’s New York Times (November 25, 2008), “Study Suggests Some cancers May Go Away”, by Gina Kolata. Researchers, for many [...]

Jumbo Jet Crashes Killing All – So What

Imagine these headlines in your local newspaper: JUMBO JET CRASHES KILLING ALL – 1,000 PEOPLE DIE! The front pages of all of our newspapers would scream about this massive tragedy of “epic proportions.” Now imagine that that a jumbo jet crashes and kills everyone on board every two weeks for an entire year. Every two [...]

Keep Our Club Exclusive

U.S. News and World Review, in their HealthDay section reported an interesting aspect of the continuing debate about treatment vs. “watchful waiting” (active surveillance). The article, written by Karen Pallarito “Rethinking Prostate Cancer in Older Men” suggests aggressive treatment is viable, even for patients in their late 70s! Her premise, that increasing life expectancies, improved [...]

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