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Updates in PSA Screening
Eugene K. Lee, MD - making sense of it all
Active Surveillance Risk Rises
Fourfold higher 15 year mortality risk
Intermediate and High-Risk Cancers Rise
Prostate cancers have risen since PSA screening guidlines were revised
NCCN Guidelines for Patients
Extensive info on prostate cancer and treatments options
Predication Tools - nomograms
Memorial Sloan Kettering insightful tools calculating survival percentages for pre-radical prostectomy, post-radical prostectomy, salvage radiation, male life expectancy, tumor volume and PSA doubling times.
KC - Health Resource Guide
Safety net health services in Kansas City
Benefit of radiation after prostatectomy
Genomic classifier score identifies risk of metastasis and benefit of adjuvant radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy
Drug combo suppresses late-stage tumors
Low doses of metformin, a widely used diabetes medication, and a gene inhibitor known as BI2536 can successfully halt the growth of late-stage prostate cancer tumors, a Purdue University finds.
MRI Improves Prostate Biopsy Accuracy
Prostate biopsies that combine MRI technology with ultrasound appear to give men better information regarding the seriousness of their cancer
Prostate Cancer and Smoking
Prostate cancer patients who smoke fare worse.
Questions to ask your doctors - pg 1
Questions to ask your doctors - pg 2
R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation has compiled list of questions to ask your doctor.
Selenium and Prostate Cancer Mortality
Selenium supplementation may increase risk of prostate cancer mortality.
Easier to detect with new type of MRI
Being able to predict tumor grade using non-invasive imaging could spare some patients for aggressive prostate surgery and allow them to be monitored with scans instead.
Penn-led study on radiation - Jan 2015
Older men with prostate cancer benefit from radiation plus hormone therapy
Swedish Cancer Institute - Jan 2015
Active Surveillance and Multiparametric MRI
Your PSA is "Undetectable" What does that mean?
Are We Closer to a Cancer Cure?
Current clinical trials with ipilimumab include people with cancers of the breast, lungs, cervix, prostate, head and neck, pancreas, kidneys, and blood.
Exercise for the Cancer Patient
In the majority of cancers regular exercise are indicated to improve muscle strength and endurance. Per Austral - Asian Journal of Cancer
Diet that prevents cancer
Recommendations from the American Institute for cancer research
Positive surgical margins
Interesting paper from Harvard Medical School concerning radical prostatectomy
Physical Activity and Survival
Higher levels of physical activity were associated with reduced rates of prostate cancer-specific mortality.
Uncovering Cancer's Hiding Places
An ingenious new technique for finding where your prostate cancer is
You are not alone
Stories of other prostate cancer survivors
Comparing Treatment Results
2014 study of the current literature on prostate cancer treatment results
So Your PSA is high, What now?
Video from www.pcri.org about new ways to be better informed
The Big Picture: PCa Remission
Dr. Snuffy Myers outlines the big picture of durable, complete prostate cancer remissions.
Prostate Cancer Infolink
List of prostate cancer education, support and advocacy sites
Prostate videos
web service dedicated to providing prostate cancer education through video materials
Prostate Cancer Foundation
Standard of care research infomration about latest science and developments
Prostate Cancer and nutrition
How do Enzymens work in the body?
Lycopene Benefits
Antioxidants and cancer prevention
Organic foods: Are they safer? More nutritious?
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