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Tags: Featured Products, PSA, PSA-ACT, PSA-B2M, PSA MSDS

Maori TV does stunning programme about prostate cancer on Chatham Islands

Jim Tucker wrote 3 weeks ago: CHATHAMS MESSAGE: The Maori TV and NZ Prostate Cancer Foundation team at Chatham Islands airport. De … more →

Tags: Awareness and media, NZ Media coverage, NZ Prostate Cancer Foundation, Prostate Cancer, catheter, Chatham Islands, Chathams, Maori TV, Medical Checkups

Routine Mammograms Beginning at Age 50?

panoramicviews wrote 1 month ago: Another article reported by the Washington Post reports on a Federal panel’s recommendation ab … more →

Tags: My View, Links & Things, Faith & Wellness, Discussion starters, Washington Post, breast cancer, Mammograms, PSA, Diagnostic Testing

No support for US official bodies' policy to not test PSA in over-75s

Jim Tucker wrote 1 month ago: URO TODAY: New research shows there is little medical profession or public support for a US Preventa … more →

Tags: Prostate Cancer, Prostate research, PSA tests, screening debate, Cancer Research, catheter, discontinue PSA screening at age 75, prostablog, prostate blog

Sticking with prostate cancer screening gives men far better chance of not dying from the disease1 comment

Jim Tucker wrote 1 month ago: URO TODAY: Men who stick with prostate screening have a much better chance of not dying of prostate … more →

Tags: Prostate Cancer, Prostate research, PSA tests, screening debate, blood test, blood tests, Cancer Research, Medical Checkups, prostablog

Death risk greater if prostate cancer patients' PSA rises with 18 months of radiotherapy

Jim Tucker wrote 1 month ago: ATLANTA JOURNAL: Prostate cancer patients whose prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels rise within 1 … more →

Tags: Prostate Cancer, Prostate research, PSA tests, Radiotherapy, Atlanta Journal, catheter, prostablog, Prostate, prostate blog

Radiation therapy alone can reduce PSA levels below detectable amounts

Jim Tucker wrote 1 month ago: MEDICAL NEWS TODAY:  Radiation therapy alone can reduce prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels below … more →

Tags: Prostate Cancer, PSA tests, Treatment News, Prostate research, Radiotherapy, psa test, blood test, PSA, Prostate Treatment

Get your cholesterol down if you want to avoid high-risk prostate cancer, another study finds

Jim Tucker wrote 1 month ago: URO TODAY: Cholesterol levels and prostate cancer definitely seem to be connected, a new study at Jo … more →

Tags: cholesterol drugs, Prostate Cancer, Prostate research, Prostate risks, Prostate, Cancer Research, catheter, prostate blog, Johns Hopkins

US urologists come out fighting over negative debate on prostate cancer testing

Jim Tucker wrote 1 month ago: URO TODAY: Concerned about recent controversy that disparaged testing for prostate cancer, the Ameri … more →

Tags: Prostate Cancer, screening debate, Prostate, digital examination, blood test, biopsy, digital diagnosis, blood tests, prostablog

PSA testing study compared Dutch men who had it with Irish who didn't - with the Dutch showing far less cancer spread and fewer deaths

Jim Tucker wrote 1 month ago: URO TODAY: A study comparing Dutch men who got regular PSA testing for prostate cancer with Irish me … more →

Tags: Prostate Cancer, PSA tests, screening debate, Prostate, psa test, blood test, PSA, blood tests, Cancer Research

New evidence Gleason/PSA can be used to indicate when bone scan needed for new prostate cancer patients

Jim Tucker wrote 1 month ago: URO TODAY: Giving newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients a bone scan has dropped off dramatically … more →

Tags: Prostate Cancer, PSA tests, Diagnosis, Prostate research, Gleason grade, Prostate, psa test, blood test, PSA

As many as 56,000 US men saved from prostate cancer death in two decades following introduction of PSA testing

Jim Tucker wrote 1 month ago: URO TODAY: Some 56,000 prostate cancer deaths were averted in the US over the 20 years following the … more →

Tags: Prostate Cancer, PSA tests, Prostate research, screening debate, Prostate, psa test, PSA, Prostate Treatment, prostate treatment debate

New Swedish research suggests PSA test is 'far from accurate' and needs to be augmented by better biomarkers

Jim Tucker wrote 1 month ago: NEW PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK: The PSA test is far from accurate as a screening tool for large number … more →

Tags: Prostate Cancer, PSA tests, Prostate research, screening debate, Prostate, psa test, blood test, PSA, blood tests

Urologists take more balanced view of prostate cancer testing in submission to NZ parliamentary inquiry

Jim Tucker wrote 2 months ago: PROSTABLOG NZ: Not surprisingly, NZ urologists – the doctors who operate on prostate cancer pa … more →

Tags: Prostate Cancer, PSA tests, Prostate research, screening debate, Medical Checkups, digital examination, psa test, biopsy, digital diagnosis

American Cancer Society expresses doubts about prostate and breast cancer screening

Jim Tucker wrote 2 months ago: NEW YORK TIMES: The American Cancer Society, which has long been a staunch defender of most cancer s … more →

Tags: Prostate Cancer, Prostate research, screening debate, American Cancer Society, breast cancer screening, cancer screening, New York Times, prostablog, Prostate

Current prostate cancer tests not good enough to decide when active surveillance is best option

Jim Tucker wrote 2 months ago: URO TODAY: Current prostate cancer tests are not good enough to enable doctors to decide which patie … more →

Tags: Prostate Cancer, PSA tests, Prostate research, screening debate, watchful waiting, Prostate, psa test, blood test, PSA

Is 'opt out' the answer to conundrum over whether or not men should be offered prostate cancer tests?

Jim Tucker wrote 2 months ago: PROSTATE CANCER INFOLINK: Rather than having to ask for a prostate cancer test, men should be offere … more →

Tags: Prostate Cancer, PSA tests, screening debate, American Cancer Society, biopsy, blood test, blood tests, Enlarged Prostate, ethnic risk for prostate cancer

American Uro Association's revamped guidelines in PSA testing worth another look in context of NZ debate

Jim Tucker wrote 2 months ago: PROSTABLOG NZ: In view of renewed NZ debate about PSA testing for prostate cancer, it’s useful … more →

Tags: Prostate Cancer, PSA tests, screening debate, American Urological Association, blood test, blood tests, digital diagnosis, digital examination, Mass Screening

'Screening algorithm' shown to accurately predict whether repeat biopsies for prostate cancer are needed

Jim Tucker wrote 2 months ago: URO TODAY: Dutch medical scientists have worked out a way to use various medical information – … more →

Tags: biopsy, Prostate Cancer, Prostate research, PSA tests, screening debate, Cancer Research, Dutch medical scientists, individualized screening algorithm, Medical Checkups


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