Prostate News Archive
28-Oct-2007
Localized Prostate Cancer Options --- HealthandAge (HealthandAge)
There's still some uncertainty about the management of localized prostate cancer. Clinical studies to date have mostly dealt with short-term outcomes, but there's very little on long-term results of different forms of treatment. Burmese desperate for health care (AP via Yahoo! News)
They travel for days though checkpoints, across dangerous roads and past Myanmar's bribe-hungry soldiers to make it to the Thai border. They're not refugees fleeing the junta ? they simply want to see a doctor. Business, volunteer leader in city dies (The Argus Leader)
One of the city's well-known philanthropists and businessmen died Thursday at Sanford Hospice Foundation Cottage. R. Herbert "Herb" Bowden, 82, died of a recurrence of cancer that spread to his bones, said his sons, Al and Doug. Their father had battled prostate cancer and had two open-heart surgeries. "He just couldn't shake that one," Al Bowden said. "His body couldn't keep up with him ... Life and death (Louisville Courier-Journal)
David Dick was a man of significant achievement before he became an author and a household name throughout Kentucky and beyond. His most recent book, A Journal for Lalie, is his most ambitious and successful and the one with the widest appeal. It is the record of his busy, productive life as he matures into his seventies and becomes a victim of prostate cancer and other maladies of old age.
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