What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe idea of "watchful waiting" as a method of dealing with prostate cancer has gained more ground following a study in Sweden, which has the world's fourth highest death rate from the cancer. ...
Now something for the gentlemen. There could also be some good news for men who've reached that stage in life when thoughts turn to the prostate.
Screening for prostate cancer has become more and more widespread fuelled by analogies with the "success" of breast cancer screening programmes. ...
PSA: A test too far and wide
Radical surgery to treat prostate cancer only succeeds in spreading the condition, new research has discovered. ...
PSA: It's a test that has had its day
Early diagnostic tests for prostate cancer are so unreliable that doctors would do better to assess the risk through family medical history, cancer experts have suggested. ...
Q:Your article on the prostate cancer vasectomy link (WDDTY, vol 4, no 2) was of particular interest to me as a recovered testicular cancer patient. ...
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men, but medicine is at a loss to know how to treat it. Two recent studies reveal that screening can actually do more harm than good, and the increa ...
Q:A sample from my prostate was pronounced "benign tumour" at an early stage and I have been prescribed 3.6 mg goserelin acetate (Zoladex) monthly injections to inhibit and hopefully reduce the g ...
