Prostate News Archive
01-Oct-2008
Pharmac to fund prostate treatments (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)
Government drug buying agency Pharmac is to fund treatments for two types of prostate disease - prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Prostate cancer survivor urges checkups (Wharton Journal-Spectator)
By BURLON PARSONS bparsons@journal-spectator.com Jack Birkner, 79, is an advocate for early detection of prostate cancer. He urges any man 49-years-old and over to get an exam every year. Birkner speaks from personal experience because he was diagnosed with the cancer in January of 1997. Robotic surgery is one treatment option for prostate cancer (Asbury Park Press)
prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in American men, behind only lung cancer.
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