Prostate News Archive
15-Apr-2007
The secrets and lies that a Cold-War warrior took to his grave (Times Online)
When the old spymaster thought he was dying, his eldest son came to visit him at his home in Miami. The scourges had been constant and terrible recently: lupus, pneumonia, cancers of the jaw and prostate, gangrene, the amputation of his left leg. Low education predicts lower quality of life for prostate cancer patients (EurekAlert!)
Among men who have received similar treatments for prostate cancer, those with less education ?? particularly those who did not graduate from high school ?? experience a significant drop in their quality of life after treatment compared with men who have more education, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC). Free screenings to check men for prostate cancer (The Indianapolis Star)
Free prostate cancer screening tests will be offered from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Mount Zion Apostolic Church, 4900 E. 38th St., as part of a tribute to the Rev. Charles Williams, who lost his life to the disease. 'I got fit to fight terminal cancer' (BBC News)
When doctors told Matt Rannamets he had terminal prostate cancer he vowed to fight it.
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