Prostate News Archive
14-Sep-2007
Canadian-led study aims to answer thorny prostate cancer question (CP via Yahoo! Canada News)
TORONTO (CP) - Canadian researchers are launching a large, multi-year international study to try to find a way to help the hundreds of thousands of men diagnosed with prostate cancer every year decide whether to opt for potentially life-altering treatments or choose a watch-and-wait approach. Strategy and guidelines on prostate cancer MIA (Scoop.co.nz)
''Health Minister Pete Hodgson must explain the lack of progress in issuing guidelines on prostate cancer testing. The long-promised guidelines are simply Missing In Action,'' says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall. Drug helps detect large prostate tumors (Baltimore Sun)
Studies find that finasteride also reduces risk of cancer A controversial drug that can prevent prostate cancer appears to be even more beneficial than previously thought. Prostate Cancer Awareness Month (KSWO Lawton-Wichita Falls)
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and more than 900 men signed up for free prostate cancer screenings Thursday at Comanche County Memorial Hospital in Lawton. Skagss holding free blood screenings to check prostate health (The Springfield News-Leader)
Skaggs Community Health Center in Branson will provide free PSA blood screenings for area men to test their prostate health. Final screening is planned 8 to 10 a.m. Sept. 18 in the hospital's Dogwood Room. At the screening, Skaggs will provide the PSA blood test without charge to any man over the age of 50, and to any man over the age of 40 who has a family history of prostate cancer. The ...
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