• 1,000th story reviewed on HealthNewsReview.org

    Updated: 2010-03-19 22:16:30
    With no fanfare, no fireworks, no dye in the river or even a tea party, today we posted our 1,000th (and 1001st) story review on HealthNewsReview.org. This has become extremely gratifying work - so much so that I have resigned my tenured faculty position at the University of Minnesota effective the end of May to work on this and related projects fulltime. Thanks for your interest and support. We hope we're making a difference in helping to educate smarter health care consumers directly or through the journalists who serve them.

  • And the Women Gather

    Updated: 2010-03-19 20:40:21
    Women Against Prostate Cancer helping women win the war against prostate cancer Home Donate Resources News Blog Take Action Share Your Story Gail’s Story Kathy’s Story Sherrie’s Story Press Area About Us Steering Committee State Chapters Contact Us You are here : Home Prostate Cancer Blog And the Women Gather And the Women Gather Filed in Prostate Cancer Blog on March 19, 2010 with no comments Stumble This Digg This Share on Delicious Share on Facebook Tweet This Tags cancer families Featured health impact legistlation prostate reform With the health reform vote coming up on Sunday , people around the country are eager to find out what the new legislation may have in store for . them Listen in live on Saturday , March 20th as Women Against Prostate Cancer’s co-founders Theresa Morrow and Betty Gallo speak with Lorna Owens , host of And the Women Gather on what the legislation will mean for men , prostate cancer and all who are impacted by the disease . The show will air at 6:00 pm EST and you can listen live online here To learn more visit www.andthewomengather.com Interested in what the legislation says You can check out all 2,000+ pages . here Or to find out where your

  • Kaiser takes blood stool test kit campaign to YouTube

    Updated: 2010-03-19 17:32:40
    Dr. T.R. Levin, a gastroenterologist at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Walnut, Creek, California, has a YouTube video on Kaiser's widespread use of blood stool test kits for colon cancer screening. Click here to see the video.

  • ACS Stats Find Gains in War on Cancer

    Updated: 2010-03-09 20:44:09
    Cancer is not quite the killer it was 20 years ago. The American Cancer Society found that "age-standardized" cancer deaths among men declined by 21% from 1990, while the rate among women declined by 12% from 1991 to 2006.

  • ASCO GU: Robotic Surgery Changes Some Prostate CA Treatment

    Updated: 2010-03-09 20:19:52
    SAN FRANCISCO -- Robot-assisted surgery for prostate cancer may require alteration in radiation planning but doesn't preclude sufficient lymph node sampling, according to results of two studies.

  • ASCO GU: PSA Triggers Questioned in Active Prostate Surveillance

    Updated: 2010-03-08 19:58:23
    SAN FRANCISCO -- Most commonly-used methods to determine when to start prostate cancer treatment for men on watchful waiting have a high "false trigger" rate, researchers asserted.

  • ASCO GU: Higher-Priced Prostate Therapy Taking Over

    Updated: 2010-03-08 14:45:29
    SAN FRANCISCO -- Expensive prostate cancer treatments are winning out over the old standards, driving up the cost of treatment before there's clear evidence that they improve outcomes, researchers here asserted.

  • ASCO GU: Some Object to Cancer Society's Prostate Screening Update

    Updated: 2010-03-08 11:16:02
    SAN FRANCISCO -- Reactions to the American Cancer Society's guideline update calling for shared decision making in prostate cancer screening have been mixed among urologists here at the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, as a leading oncologist explains in this exclusive InFocus™ report.

  • ASCO GU: Assay Change Makes 3.0 the New 4.0 for PSA Cutoff

    Updated: 2010-03-07 21:40:42
    SAN FRANCISCO -- A quiet switch in laboratory standards has artificially lowered prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels reported to physicians, confusing thresholds for biopsy and potentially leading to missed cancers.

  • ASCO GU: Prostate CA Prevention Affirmed for BPH Drug

    Updated: 2010-03-07 21:40:35
    SAN FRANCISCO -- For men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), dutasteride (Avodart) both prevents prostate cancer and boosts the predictive power of prostate specific antigen (PSA), researchers affirmed.

  • ASCO GU: New Test Gets Positive Results for Prostate CA

    Updated: 2010-03-06 23:31:42
    SAN FRANCISCO -- Another novel urine test appears to improve detection of prostate cancer, particularly of aggressive tumors, researchers reported.

  • PSA Debate Hashed Out in Congress

    Updated: 2010-03-05 18:31:17
    WASHINGTON -- A day after the American Cancer Society (ACS) released updated prostate cancer screening guidelines, the group's chief medical officer was before Congress urging the government to fund research into alternative methods for prostate cancer screening.

  • ASCO GU: Novel Urine Test IDs Prostate Cancer

    Updated: 2010-03-04 04:03:24
    SAN FRANCISCO -- An experimental urine test may pick up prostate cancers before biopsy in high-risk men, researchers found.

  • ASCO GU: Novel Agent Ups Survival in Refractory Prostate CA

    Updated: 2010-03-03 22:38:57
    SAN FRANCISCO -- The novel chemotherapy drug cabazitaxel substantially improves survival in hormone- and chemotherapy-refractory prostate cancer, making it the first treatment of any kind to do so.

  • ACS Pushes Shared Decisions for Prostate Screening

    Updated: 2010-03-03 20:00:22
    Principles of shared decision-making should guide a man's decision about screening for prostate cancer, according to updated guidelines from the American Cancer Society.

  • Outcomes Similar for Lap and Open Prostatectomy

    Updated: 2010-02-23 17:06:02
    Laparoscopic and open prostatectomy have similar rates of comorbidity and similar requirements for additional therapy, according to a review of 5,923 cases of surgically treated prostate cancer.

  • Low Testosterone May Affect Cancer Survivors

    Updated: 2010-02-21 21:37:16
    Male cancer survivors with low testosterone levels experience reduced energy and sexual function, and thus might benefit from hormone replacement therapy, a new study found.

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