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- Activity of ketoconazole after taxane-based chemotherapy in castration-resistant prostate cancer 27 Nov 2009 08:16 GMT
... Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology, ... Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ... decline of >/=50% in their prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level. PSA progression was defined by the ...
- A teaching moment for prostate cancer 27 Nov 2009 12:51 GMT
... Your recent article on prostate cancer prompted me to give testimony (“NH prostate ... primary care doctor told me that my PSA was quite high (10) and he recommended ...
- No one wants his health care rationed 27 Nov 2009 08:48 GMT
... In other words, some men will get PSA tests year after year, then ultimately have expensive ... doctors discuss the pros and cons of PSA screening with their patients, but doesn't go on ... England Journal of Medicine : One said PSA testing saves lives, the other said it didn't. ...
- Eugene Robinson: No one wants his health care rationed 27 Nov 2009 15:13 GMT
... In other words, some men will get PSA tests year after year, then ultimately have expensive ... doctors discuss the pros and cons of PSA screening with their patients, but doesn't go on ... England Journal of Medicine : One said PSA testing saves lives, the other said it didn't. ...
- Too many medical tests? 27 Nov 2009 17:34 GMT
... WASHINGTON -- Want to play medical Russian roulette? That ... preventive medicine. A recent recommendation that the PSA test for prostate cancer among men should be ... reasons. But the mammograms, Pap smear and PSA tests are among the most traditional tools in ...
- My medical care-and yours 27 Nov 2009 12:34 GMT
... WASHINGTON — The uproar over the on-again, off-again guidelines ... have a blood test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA), and, if so, how often? An elevated ... before the tumor becomes an issue. But PSA testing has become so routine, like mammography, that ...
- Eugene Robinson: My medical care-and yours 27 Nov 2009 16:33 GMT
... WASHINGTON — The uproar over the on-again, off-again guidelines ... have a blood test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA), and, if so, how often? An elevated ... before the tumor becomes an issue. But PSA testing has become so routine, like mammography, that ...
- Prostate cancer in the elderly 26 Nov 2009 06:36 GMT
... Martini-Klinik, Prostate Cancer Center, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. ... of the population. With frequent use of PSA testing most patients were diagnosed with localized ...
- Cancer screening guidelines differ by group 26 Nov 2009 06:10 GMT
... Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for ... and blood test for a substance called PSA - to men beginning at age 50, ... and older should be offered a baseline PSA test and exam. Breast cancer Cervical cancer Prostate cancer ...
- Detection rate and factors predictive the presence of prostate cancer in patients undergoing ultrasonography-guided transperineal saturation biopsies of the prostate 26 Nov 2009 08:17 GMT
... Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, Urology Clinic, ... Padua, Padua, Italy. To assess the prostate cancer detection rate and predictive factors for prostate ... previous negative biopsy and a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level of >/=10.0 ng/mL, or of 4.0-10.0 ...
- Phase I/II study on docetaxel, gemcitabine and prednisone in castrate refractory metastatic prostate cancer 26 Nov 2009 08:17 GMT
... Department of Oncology, Herlev University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej ... of gemcitabine (DGP). The primary endpoint was PSA response. Fifteen patients were enrolled in the ... week. Patients had castrate refractory metastatic prostate cancer (CRMPC), adequate function of liver, kidney and ...
- Medical care: Yours or mine? 26 Nov 2009 13:18 GMT
... In other words, some men will get PSA tests year after year, then ultimately have expensive ... doctors discuss the pros and cons of PSA screening with their patients, but doesn't go on ... New England Journal of Medicine: One said PSA testing saves lives, the other said it didn't. ...
- Eugene Robinson: All health care is personal 26 Nov 2009 04:40 GMT
... In other words, some men will get PSA tests year after year, then ultimately have expensive ... doctors discuss the pros and cons of PSA screening with their patients, but doesn't go on ... recommend that all men be screened. But PSA testing has become so routine, like mammography, that ...
- Other stories from across province 26 Nov 2009 19:12 GMT
... Here are stories from other Metroland newspapers. Jocelyn Gardner is ... Shorten, 82, crossed the border for prostate cancer treatment at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute ... cancer. "I went for five to six (PSA) tests all in a row" because of ...
- Funding boost for FScan 26 Nov 2009 09:20 GMT
... SCIENTISTS in the region who are pioneering a ... are pioneering a new test for prostate cancer expect to bring the technology to the ... market for FScan's technology as 24 million PSA tests for prostate cancer are carried out ...
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