Monthly Archives: August 2012

This article shows how the death rate from prostate cancer has gone down since the introduction of the PSA test. http://ecancer.org/news/3316

Well worth reading through to myth No.6 which gives reasons as to why there is so much overtreatment and goes on to say that if you do careful monitoring of men in the lower risk prostate cancer group then you reduce the … Continue reading →

This is a brilliant video and very amusing way of getting a very serious point over. Get the family including sons and daughters  (all those over 15) sat around the computer and watch this new video made for Prostate Cancer Rsearch … Continue reading →

Its always good to hear of new treatments on the horizon for men with metastatic prostate because prior to the last TWO years we only had one treatment for metastatic disease and now we have several but still need more … Continue reading →

The persistent hard work of lobbying by the Edinburgh and Lothian prostate cancer support group under the direction of a dedicated chairman Mike Shaw who is passionate about raising the awareness of prostate cancer and seeking to get the very … Continue reading →

Patients such as myself have been asking for years why and how are so many men who present with a gleason score of 6 treated aggressively rather than by careful monitoring. We know that overtreatment is the biggest hurdle standing … Continue reading →

http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=9779&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Yet another really nice bloke and friend to so many is struggling with late stage metastatic  prostate cancer is taken into a hospice as his condition deteriorates. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. Gemma his daughter and … Continue reading →