tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75473566213844872592012-01-29T22:29:45.075-05:00Prostate cancer topics, links and more. Now at <a href="http://palpable-prostate.blogspot.com/2008/02/contents.html">100+ posts!</a><br>The Palpable Prostatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16142459096123501053noreply@blogger.comBlogger1511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7547356621384487259.post-37021020381201125882012-01-29T22:28:00.001-05:002012-01-29T22:29:45.084-05:00

Jan 28, 2012. In Biochemical PSA Recurrence we added: A 2012 review [Full Text] [PMID: 22218632] of nutrition and chemoprevention provides a [table] listing the candidates, their demonstrated benefit (or lack thereof), and the level of evidence (level 1 is highest level of evidence, 2 is lower, etc.). Using this would, again, be on the assumption that chemoprevention measures are the same

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This is the 5th year of publishing the Palpable Prostate! Dec 26, 2011. We added to Bradford Hill Criteria of Causation (referring to bias in the medical literature): As another example this abstract [PMID: 22089952] discusses a high relative risk for rectal cancer after radiation treatment for prostate cancer but fails to give the fact that the absolute risk if very low (1% after 10 years of

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Nov 24, 2011. In USPSTF Draft Report so many additions and changes were made that rather than itemizing each one we ask interested readers to simply review the entire post again.Nov 23, 2011. In Biochemical PSA Recurrence we added: Coffee. Based on a prospective analysis of 47,911 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study who reported intake of regular and decaffeinated coffee in 1986 and

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[Updated January 28, 2012]The US Preventive Service Task Force (USPSTF) has produced a draft recommendation on PSA screening available [here] based on the evidence presented [here] and [PMID: 22171385]. The USPSTF's gave PSA testing a grade of D which means that it recommends against PSA screening and discourages the use of it in practice. Note that this only refers to using the PSA test on

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Oct 27, 2011. In Prostate Cancer Calculators we add: Interpretation. Caution needs to be exercised in interpretation. For example, this article shows what can go wrong by incorrectly assuming that median life expectancy is the amount of time a particular person has left to live.Oct 26, 2011. In Advice to the Newly Diagnosed we added: Low fat diet with fish oil supplements may be beneficial. In

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Sep 29. In Biochemical PSA Recurrence we added: "In conclusion, consumption of eggs may increase risk of developing a lethal-form of prostate cancer among healthy men." [PMID: 21930800]. Quoting from the same abstract: "Men who consumed 2.5 or more eggs per week had an 81% increased risk of lethal prostate cancer compared to men who consumed less than 0.5 eggs per week.""In conclusion,

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Aug 27. A new line of journal links has been added at the top of the page. Also the news links at the top of the page were revised. Aug 4. New post on Vitamin D summarizing conclusions in a recent review. Aug 2. We added to Bradford Hill Criteria of Causation: In a 2008 study of Finnish smokers Ahn et al (2008) [PMID: 18505967] [Full text] found that the 20% of patients with the lowest blood

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[August 4, 2011] A review paper by Barnett and Beer that appeared in Urol Clin North Am. 2011 Aug;38(3):333-42 discusses the current status of Vitamin D research. [PMID: 21798396]. According to that paper it seems clear that vitamin D is involved in prostate cancer biology and that there is an anticancer effect in animals but it is much less clear whether there is a significant beneficial

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July 9. In Biochemical PSA Recurrence we added: The Biotech Strategy Blog reports that Alex Haese at the AUA 2011 meeting presented data that the time to mets after recurrence is 4.7 years in Europe compared to 8 years in the US.July 3. In Pubmed Front Ends we added: A different interface, also available at the Pubmed site, is the Advanced Pubmed Interface which allows one to build a query using

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June 9/11. In Biochemical PSA Recurrence we added: An excellent presentation on biochemical recurrence dated May 11, 2011 by Niall Corcoran can be found here: [pdf] [presentation with audio].June 5/11. In Radiation risks associated with Prostate Cancer we added: The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently classified cell phones as possibly carcinogenic to humans. See [press release]. On

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May 30, 2011. In WCRF/AICR Diet and Cancer Report we added: Updates were released in 2010 (on breast cancer) and 2011 (on colorectal cancer). [updates].

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April 23, 2011. We added to: Bradford Hill Criteria of Causation: The confusion in media can be readily seen in the reporting of two large screening studies for prostate cancer, the Prostate Lung Colorectal Ovarian Cancer (PLCO) and the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC). As reported in [PMID: 21446935] 23% of the newspaper reports concluded that screening is

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March 20, 2011. In Radiation risks associated with Prostate Cancer we added: This chart compares the radiation from various sources in a way that allows you to develop an understanding of radiation magnitudes.March 24, 2011. In Advice to the Newly Diagnosed we added: There is also a comparison of treatments [here].March 24, 2011. In How Healthy Men Can Reduce Their Risk we added: In a 2011 study

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Feb 25, 2011. In Diet Software Drinks we add the following Health Day reference to a recent observational study: Also there are indications that artificial sweeteners in soft drinks are unhealthy in any case: [PMID: 18212291] and [Health Day]Feb 25, 2011. In Advances in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis 2010 we add: 2011 update: Recently researchers have sequenced an entire prostate cancer genome. See

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Jan 14, 2011. In the Urinary Incontinence post added: A study published in 2011 JAMA concluded that 8 weeks of pelvic floor muscle training and bladder control strategies reduced incontinence episodes from an average of 28 per week to 13 per week even among those who had been incontinent for over a year. The addition of biofeedback and pelvic floor electrical stimulation did not result in

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2010 was the fourth calendar year of publishing the Palpable Prostate blog. This year there were about 20K page views from readers around world. The most popular page is the Prostate Cancer Calculators page. A two part set of posts on ED, a post on Recurrence, a four part of set of posts on PSA Doubling Time, a two part set of posts on Yananow Case Histories and a post on Free Downloadable

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November 3, 2010. In How Healthy Men Can Reduce Their Risk we added: according to a 2010 paper analyzing results from the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) trial [PMID: 20950305] "prostate biopsy is not associated with excess mortality and fatal complications appear to be very rare".

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October 30, 2010. In How Healthy Men Can Reduce Their Risk we added: In the study [summarized here] it was found that those who had PSA testing prior to developing prostate cancer had a lower chance of it spreading.October 30, 2010. In PSADT Doubling Time - Part 4 we added a direct link to the [Memorial Sloan Kettering PSADT calculator]. Previously there was a link to the MSK calculator site

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[updated February 25, 2011]Researchers have discovered 24 genetic types of prostate cancer.A July 2010 article by Mary Boutrel Conover provides an overview and links to the research and a June 2010 Wall Street Journal article also provides interesting detail. Also see this August 2010 NCI summary.Researchers quoted in the above articles anticipate a lab test to determine prostate cancer type

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August 18, 2010. In Prostate Cancer Calculators we add: Prostate Cancer Research Institute (PCRI). The PCRI has the following nomograms on its site:Probability of Extracapsular ExtensionProbability of Seminal Vesicle InvolvementProbability of Lymph Node Involvement with TumorProbability of Latent or Indolent Tumors of Low Biological AggressivenessProbability of Metastases Five Years After 3D

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July 28, 2010. In Holick's July 2007 NEJM Paper on Vitamin D we added: a good overview of the area was written up in the [July 26, 2010 NY Times] which discusses benefits and toxicity. Also Holick has since written a book, The Vitamin D Solution.July 25, 2010. In Prostate Cancer Calculators we add: Probability of Lymph Node Involvement. The Yale Formula for the probability that prostate cancer

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June 19, 2010. In Choosing a Surgeon - Part I we added: For example, in [PMID: 20512532] there is a documentation of the "July Effect": "Each July thousands begin medical residencies and acquire increased responsibility for patient care. Many have suggested that these new medical residents may produce errors". The authors write: "Inside medical institutions, in counties containing teaching

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May 17, 2010. In PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 5. More Diagnostic Testing Concepts we added this reference to ROC curves: anaesthetist.com article.

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Apr 12/10. In Prostate Cancer Calculators we added a link to the University of Montreal Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit updates page.

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Mar 22/10. In Advice to the Newly Diagnosed we added: Deciding. Be aware that according to [2010 Archives of Internal Medicine article] [sciencecentric article][PMID: 20212180] "specialist visits relate strongly to prostate cancer treatment choices." Those who visited a radiologist tend to choose radiation and those who visited a urologist tended to choose surgery, hormones or watchful waiting

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Feb 28/10. Life Expectancy without Treatment. This calculator provides an estimate of life expectancy based on conservative management. It is based on [PMID: 20141675]. Also see this discussion in prostatecancerinfolink.Feb 17/10. In Choosing a Surgeon - Part I. Considerations, Choosing a Surgeon - Part I we added: Another problem to watch out for is a surgeon that has several operating rooms

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Jan 22/09. We added to: Bradford Hill Criteria of Causation: In fact there is a mathematical condition known as Cornfield's condition that states that the apparent effect cannot be reversed by the confounder if the effect of the confounding factor is not greater than the effect of the apparent factor. (In the table above where the apparent factor was race and the confounding factor was

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Dec 25/09. In Testosterone Metabolism and Prostate Cancer we added (referring to the simple model in which testosterone "fuels" prostate cancer: An example of using this simple model is Gat's hypothesis [prostatecancerinfolink article] [PMID: 19737278] that an age-related malfunction can allow a very much higher than normal amount of testosterone to reach the prostate from the testes. By

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Nov 18/09. In Choosing a Surgeon - Part I. Considerations, Choosing a Surgeon - Part I. Considerations we added: Savage and Vickers determined the typical annual radical prostatectomy caseloads of surgeons in the United States by analyzing "data from 2 independent data sets for 2005, that of a nationally representative sample (Nationwide Inpatient Sample) and a complete record of all hospital

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Oct 26/09. Added AUA/ASCO AR5 Inhibitors 2009 guideline to Guidelines-US line of the Links box in the right margin: [AUA/ASCO AR5 Inhibitors 2009]Oct 26/09. Added AUA PSA guidelines for 2009 on the Guidelines-US line of the Links box in the right margin: [AUA PSA 2009]Oct 11/09. Added [Rachlis] blog to the blog line of the Links box in the right margin. Writer is a Canadian physician who

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Sep 28, 2009. In PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 5. More Diagnostic Testing Concepts we added another example: A 2009 meta analysis of PSA testing [PMID: 1974436] summarized various studies on PSA accuracy with the following table: Study Year No TP FP FN TN Sensitivity Specificity 1 Aragona 2005 3171 1073 1695 98 305 0.92 0.15 2

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Aug 14. On the Case Histories page we added: PCA International has 6 videos by medical personnel and patients here.Aug 14. In How Healthy Men Can Reduce Their Risk we added: A 2009 review of prostate cancer screening and prevention by Eric Klein (papers) of the Cleveland Clinic is available here: [Full Text] [PMID: 19652036].Aug 14. In How Healthy Men Can Reduce Their Risk we added: Eric Klein

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July 24/09. In Biochemical PSA Recurrence we added: Local Recurrence vs. Systemic Disease. Local recurrence refers to rising PSA without further spread of the disease (i.e. without metastases). If the disease has spread then it is referred to as systemic. At the 2009 ASCO meeting John Hopkins researchers reported on a 25 year follow up to patients who had surgery and subsequent recurrence.

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June 16/09.Added to Free Monthly Prostate Cancer Magazines and Journals these lists of free medical journals (not necessarily in the field of urology):NHS (UK)http://www.library.nhs.uk/Default.aspxNIH - Pubmed Central (US)http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/fprender.fcgiBiomed Centralhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/journalsJune 16/09. On the Case Histories page we added: surgery takes effect

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May 25/09. On the Calculators page we added: Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer. This calculator answers the question of whether the patient has castrate resistant prostate cancer and what the optimal treatment is. In association with this calculator readers may wish to view this presentation by Nicholas Vogelzang (papers).May 10/09. In Advice to the Newly Diagnosed we added: Major medical

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Apr 23/09/. In ED After Prostatectomy. Part 2 - Rehabilitation we add a reference to this Feb. 2009 paper in the Canadian Urological Association Journal: [PMID: 19293974] [Full Text] which reviews rehabilitation.Apr 23/09. In Choosing a Surgeon - Part I. Considerations, Choosing a Surgeon - Part I. Considerations we added: Different primary care physicians have different approaches toward PSA

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Mar 27/09. In Screening and Early Protection. Part 3 - Current Environment we added: In response to two studies on PSA testing the president of the AUA stated: "The American Urological Association has read with great interest the coverage surrounding the two studies about prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and is concerned about

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Feb 28. In How Healthy Men Can Reduce Their Risk we added: AR5 Inhibitors. ASCO and AUA issued the following guidelines on AR5 inhibitors in February 2009:Men who have a PSA with a score of 3.0 or below who already get yearly PSA tests, or expect to get a yearly PSA test, and show no signs of prostate cancer may benefit from talking with their doctor about the risks and benefits of a 5-ARI,

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Jan 31. In Advice to the Newly Diagnosed we added: Also see this January 2009 study [PMID: 19054189] and Medical New Today summary which found that for patients with Gleason Score 7 or less (59.1% of the patients) that survival was not substantially worse than men without prostate cancer.Jan 19. In the Historical Developments Dr. Donald Gleason, developer of the Gleason Score, dies Dec 28th.

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To wrap up 2008 there were over 40,000 page views of this blog this year. The 10 most visited pages on this blog (most visted first, second most visited second, etc.) were:The Palpable ProstateThe Palpable Prostate: Prostate Cancer Calculators The Palpable Prostate: Biochemical PSA RecurrenceThe Palpable Prostate: ED After Prostatectomy - Part 1. IntroductionThe Palpable Prostate: Yananow Place

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Nov 28. Added to the Treatments: line in the Links section to the right this link to Washington Post CyberKnife article: [CyberK]Nov 28. Added to the Medical/Uro line in the Links section to the right this link to [Medline+]Nov 28. Added the following information on the new HHS exercise and physical fitness guidelines on the Guidelines - US line in the Links section to the right: HHS Exercise (

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Oct 23. In Questions to Ask Doctor added this link on generic questions not specifically relating to any particular disease but rather questions which relate to any disease.Oct 18. In ED After Prostatectomy. Part 2 - Rehabilitation we add: Pelvic floor or Kegel exercises have also found to be beneficial. See [PMID: 15527607] [Full Text] and particularly Box 1 of that paper where the exercises

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Sep 27. In PSA Screening and Early Detection Part 2 we add that the particular PSA Assay can affect the results of a PSA test: Standard PSA tests are usually standardized to the WHO 90:10 standard or standardized to the original Hybritech(R) standard. [PMID: 18801532]. If ones switches among tests using different standards then a significant difference may appear even if there is no real

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Aug 26. In PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 3. Current Environment we add the following link to a comment by Catalona regarding the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on PSA testing: A rebuttal to the task force recommendations by Dr. William Catalona appeared in the Washington Post [full text] on August 26, 2008 page A13.Aug 25. In WCRF/AICR Diet and Cancer Report we

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July 1/08. In PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 2. Key Points on PSA we added this item: [PMID: 18267334] has even suggested that it may be necessary to lower the cutpoints used to assess the presence of prostate cancer in the obese.July 1. In Prostate Cancer Calculators we added this link to the info on subdivisions of the WHO BMI data.July 1. Added to Free Monthly Prostate Cancer

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[Updated June 5, 2011]Some of this material was previously part of Advice to the Newly Diagnosed but has been expanded and so placed here on a separate page.The Nature of Radiation RiskRadiation involves health risks which increase with (1) increasing dosage of radiation received and number of times that radiation was received, (2) youth when received, i.e. the risk varies inversely with age when

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June 1/08. In PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 2 added: Thus for a given level of PSA a smaller prostate is associated with a higher likelihood of prostate cancer than a larger prostate. In particular a rule of thumb is that for each cubic centimeter (cc) of benign prostate tissue that 0.067 ng/ml of PSA will be produced. Thus for a prostate of 40cc one would expect a PSA of 40 x

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May 1. In PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 3. Current Environment we add a reference to an April Pros and Cons of Screening article: The pros and cons of PSA testing are discussed on pages 8 and 9 of William Ware, 2005. A debate on the screening between Dr. Catalona (pro) and Dr. Talcott (con) was featured at the 2006 AUA conference and is discussed Medscape (login required but free).

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April 2/08. In Lycopene, Selenium and Vitamin E in Combination we added: Dr. Marc Garnick (papers) of the Harvard Medical School has written a brief summary of the pros and cons of selenium here. There has been some speculation that selenium might hide rather than prevent prostate cancer.April 2/08. Added to Bradford Hill Criteria of Causation: Patient Confusion. Patients themselves may

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Mar 1/08. On the Case Histories page we have added: Bill Minnick had multiple cancers in addition to prostate cancer. He underwent both RT and HT and has created the endcancernow.org web site which is focused on his personal experience with a macrobiotic diet and cancer.March 1. In PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 2 added reference to this 2008 review article on early vs. late

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Feb 1/08. In Choosing a Surgeon - Part 2. Finding a Surgeon we add: The PCRI site lists some doctors by speciality and name.Feb 1. In Prostate Cancer Calculators we added:There are two particularly comprehensive prostate cancer calculator sites. Their links are easy to remember since their links are nearly the same: http://www.nomogram.org (University of Montreal) and http://www.nomograms.org (

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The first post of the Palpable Prostate was published on February 11, 2007 making today the one year anniversary. This is also the 100th post. To make it easier to find material among that many posts this page contains the site Contents.Calculators & PrognosesProstate Cancer CalculatorsPSA Doubling Time (PSADT) - Part 1. Introduction &...PSA Doubling Time (PSADT) - Part 2. Calculating PS...PSA

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[Updated January 24, 2010]IntroductionIn this post we discuss theories of testosterone metabolism as it relates to prostate cancer. The research discussed here involves, in part, theories which, while based on scientific studies, still require additional investigation in order to establish their validity in a medical context. We will primarily rely on the four pathway model found in Endotext,

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Jan 9. In PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 2 added information on split bicycle seats which address the problem of pressure on the perineal area.Jan 13. In Advice to the Newly Diagnosed added: Although many urologists do offer ED treatment after surgery or provide a referral to an ED specialist you cannot assume either of these steps will automatically happen so be sure to pre-arrange

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[updated September 16, 2008]*** September 16, 2008 *** Open access to NIH funded research appears to be in danger with bill HR 6845 being introduced to Congress by Congressmen John Conyers of Michigan and Howard Berman of California. This law, if enacted, would overturn the gains that open access has achieved under recently introduced US law (as described in this post below). See [link] for

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[Updated January 28, 2012]IntroductionIn an particularly useful review article in the February 2008 Canadian Family Physician Wilkinson, Brundage and Siemens write An increasing PSA level after curative therapy is termed a biochemical recurrence (BCR). Approximately one-third to half of patients will experience BCR during the course of their follow-up, regardless of modality of treatment. [PMID:

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[updated September 26, 2011]This post is intended to provide pointers to the information you need if you are newly diagnosed with prostate cancer. I found that there was so much information on the net that it took a great deal of time to winnow out the more useful material and hopefully this list provides it. Its based on nearly a year of writing prostate cancer posts on this blog and scanning

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Happy New Year to all. For our end of year post:Everybody wonders what anaesthetists do while the patient is asleepEverybody wonders what we do for three hours while that machine goes beepEverybody reckons we drink coffee and we gossip and we're generally subversive Everybody reckons we do crosswords and sudoku and we chat up all the nursesDo you really think that's all we do?Well, let me tell

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In celebration (?) of the holidays the British Medical Journal has published a paper by Rachel C. Vreeman and Aaron E. Carroll on common medical myths. The paper is brief and entirely online so we direct the reader directly to it [here].Also be sure to read the responses where readers dispute the falsehood of some of the so-called myths while other readers add additional myths of their own.

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Dec 1. In the Urinary Incontinence post, John Tobin related his experience with urinary incontinence (quoted with permission):"Getting proactive makes a big difference. I spent two months just waiting for the problem to go away. I'd been using 1 or 2 pads a day. But very slight improvement. Then I bought an electric scale and resorted to weighing the pads each day to get an idea of relating

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Motivational talk on being diagnosed with cancer by surgeon and speaker, Dr. John Zelem (about 15 minutes):

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[Updated May 13, 2008]Part 1. Yananow Case History Links and Depth of Presentation Table [previous]Part 2. currentThis is the second in a two part series on Yananow case histories. To answer the question of which patients live near you we have sorted them by place. The place was derived from the filename of the flag image in the post. Within place they are sorted by number of links and length

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[Updated May 13, 2008]Part 1. Current post.Part 2. [Yananow Place Name Table]This is Part 1 of a two part series on Yananow tables.The Yananow site has a collection of hundreds of prostate cancer patient histories written by the patients themselves. They are categorized in tables on the site. These tables show the data sorted by Age, PSA, Gleason Score and Year Diagnosed. Also on the same page

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This month there were a particularly large number of retroactive updates including a signifcant expansion of cases histories, more calculators, addition of a few more free journals/magazines, tooltips on the [...] links to the right and on the news links above, a new Basics links line to the right with uptodate.com summaries and additions to the Incontinence, ED, Antioxidants, Vitamin D, WCRF/

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[Updated December 3, 2009]Prostate cancer can be slow growing taking place over many years. At one extreme is indolent disease which is growing so slowly that it needs never to be treated and on the other extreme is aggressive disease which is more rapidly spreading. These protate cancer calculators (and in particular the calculator listed there that calculates the Probability of Indolent Cancer

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[Updated May 30, 2011]The ReportA 5 year study by a team of 21 experts chaired by Sir Michael Marmot (Wikipedia) and sponsored by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) has produced 500+ page report on diet, exercise and cancer, free to download at the Diet and Cancer Site ([report], [summary], [brochures]. Updates were released in 2010 (on

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The Canadian Diabetes Association has developed an amusing interactive video using the medium of speed dating to get across to the viewer what the symptoms of diabetes are. Note that unlike YouTube videos this one is interactive which means you must click at the appropriate spots when asked in order to view the entire video.Click here: Get Serious!!!

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We are highlighting updates that may be of particular interest.Oct 2. In the Links section to the right we added Glode blog and EAU guidelines.Oct 4. In How Healthy Men Can Reduce Their Risk we added this 6 page brochure by Neal Barnard [link] .Oct 4. In Free Downloadable Materials post we added a new section entitled SINGLE TOPICS and started it out with these two documents:Wassersug on

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Walter Willett has proposed that Prostate Cancer cases should be split along two axes: age (young vs. old) and aggressiveness (indolent vs. aggressive) giving four different combinations.The thrust of the idea is that various nutritional recommendations have been shown to work in some of these groups but not in others. Lumping all groups together may mask an effect which occurs in one group but

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[Updated December 29, 2011]IntroductionMany apparent associations later turn out to be false. When does a study show causation between a risk factor or treatment and the disease? Even if an association is established between a risk factor and a disease it does not necessarily follow that the risk factor caused the disease. Maybe a third factor caused both or perhaps early forms of the disease

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These retroactive updates to past posts are important reading for readers of this web site. Rather than trickle them in one by one we batch them together and post them all every so often. Their text is included right here so you do not have to go back to the original article just to read the update.Sep 1. In Prostate Cancer Calculators an older 2003 recurrence table by Han et al [Full Text] [

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[updated April 22, 2008]Part 1Part 2 - previous partPart 3 - current partThis month there have been articles in several major US newspapers by:Robert Lee Holtz entitled Most Science Studies Appear to be Tainted by Sloppy Analysis in the September 14th Wall Street Journal [article].Gary Taubes entitled Do We Really Know What Makes US Healthy? in the September 16th New York Times [article]

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Part 1 (previous)Part 2 (current)Part 3 (next)In part 1 we discussed a 2005 paper by Ionnidis entitled "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" [Full Text] [PMID: 16060722] that shows that there exist reasonable assumptions that could imply that most studies are false. That paper is the most downloaded paper from the PLoS Medicine journal. Here we discuss a 2007 paper by Goodman and

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Haven't had a time out post in a while:

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[updated February 25, 2011]A possibly surprising result which constitutes a simple measure to address Overactive Bladder (OAB) was presented at the August meeting of the International Continence Society meeting in August 2007 (last month) in Rotterdam.Healthy patients who were given Diet Coke orCaffeine Free Diet Coke each had significantly greater frequency of urination and urgency compared to

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The Palpable Prostate will be distributing email updates via Feedburner in place of the previous service.If you are an email subscriber, i.e. you entered your email address in the upper right of The Palpable Prostate main page, there is nothing you need do. Your subscription will be moved over to Feedburner automatically. If you are not an email subscriber, i.e. you are reading this message on

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These retroactive updates to past posts are important reading for readers of this web site. Rather than trickle them in one by one they are batched together and posted at intervals. The added text or similar is included right here to save the reader from having to reference the original post. Also, links to those posts have been included for those who wish.Aug 17. Added to the Community

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[updated June 16, 2010]Parts in the SeriesED After Prostatectomy - Part 1. Introduction (previous)ED After Prostatectomy - Part 2. Rehabilitation (current)The reader should be sure to have read Part 1 of this series as it gives useful background needed for reading this Part. A review of rehabilitation is given in this Feb. 2009 paper in the Canadian Urological Association Journal: [PMID:

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[Updated August 19, 2008]Parts in the SeriesED After Prostatectomy - Part 1. Introduction (current)ED After Prostatectomy - Part 2. Rehabilitation (next)BackgroundThe reader is encouraged to review the following prior to reading this post:Prostate Cancer - Sexual Function After Treatment, The Cancer Council of Queensland, (2003?). 17 pages. Easy to read patient-oriented brochure.Endotext, 2006

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The Palpable Prostate site began in February 2007 and there is now a history of about six months. A few statistics as of July 31, 2007:posts have appeared at least weekly since inception 70 posts many posts have been retroactively updated to incorporate new information 2,104 visits to the site 3,886 page views average time viewers spend on site per visit is 6 minutes 22 seconds visitors from 58

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[Updated January 2, 2011]Part 1 (current)Part 2 (next)Part 3It is a common observation that the results of many studies are ultimately contradicted by later studies leading many to question how well one can trust various studies in the medical literature.If the treatment group is in some way healthier than the control group then a study comparing the two groups may simply be measuring the

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These retroactive updates to past posts are important reading for users of this web site. Rather than trickle them in one by one they are batched together and posted all at once. The text has been been included here to save the reader from having to click back to the original article.July ?. In PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 3. Current Environment we mention that:mounting evidence

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[updated July 28, 2010]Since the material below was written a good overview of the area was written up in the [July 26, 2010] which discusses benefits and toxicity. Also Holick has since written a book, The Vitamin D Solution.Michael Holick of the Boston University has just published a review paper on Vitamin D deficiency in the July 2007 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). [PMID: 17634462]

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[Updated July 9, 2009]Update: There is a video summary by Christopher Logothetis ((papers) of the 2009 ASCO highlights here.Update: highlights from the May 2008 AUA meeting conference are summarized at [urotoday], [urologytimes] and [Medscape].---Urology Times has a review of the May 2007 American Urological Association (AUA) conference in Anaheim, California [here]. Each of several talks are

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[Updated January 3, 2010]Note that since the information on this page was written a large scale study, the SELECT trial, concluded that selenium and vitamin E do not reduce the risk of prostate cancer (at least in the dosages used). See [SELECT Q&A]. Also a second large scale trial just reported that "individual supplements of 400 IU of vitamin E every other day and 500 mg of vitamin C daily"

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[updated February 12, 2008]Readers may wish to first view the fascinating Vieth presentation which is one hour but worth it. (Unfortunately the Vieth presentation seems to be no longer online.) Also readers may wish to review the NIH Vitamin D Fact Sheet, four papers by Donald L. Trump ([bio]), Lisa Tseng, Gerry Schwalfenberg and Michael Holicks, the presentation by Kevin Cahill and the Wikipedia

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There have been updates to many posts over the last quarter. Unfortunately due to a problem with blogger the entire list was lost (although the updates themselves were applied and not lost). I have tried to recall as many as I can but unfortunately its not very complete. To keep up to date on this blog its important to read through these updates. All the key information has been included with

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[updated July 28, 2007]The 2007 prostate cancer AUA guidelines have been released at this [link]. Since they are 81 pages plus appendices we have boiled it down to short excerpts for readers of this blog. Standard: An assessment of the patient’s life expectancy, overall health status, and tumor characteristics should be undertaken before any treatment decisions can be made.Risk Strata:- Low

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In [link] the Canadian Cancer Society is recommending that all adult Canadians take 1000 IU of Vitamin D daily in fall and winter while those at higher risk of low Vitmain D levels take the same amount daily all year round. The importance of this is that it is the first major cancer organization to recommend daily Vitamin D supplementation as a population-wide anti-cancer prevention strategy.

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PSA Screening and Early Detection. Part 1 - Guides PSA Screening and Early Detection. Part 2 - Key Points on PSA PSA Screening and Early Detection. Part 3. Current EnvironmentPSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 4. Diagnostic Testing Concepts [previous]PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 5. More Diagnostic Testing Concepts [current][Updated May 17, 2010]In the following we give a number

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[July 9, 2007]PSA Screening and Early Detection. Part 1 - Guides PSA Screening and Early Detection. Part 2 - Key Points on PSA PSA Screening and Early Detection. Part 3. Current Environment [previous]PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 4. Diagnostic Testing Concepts [current]PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 5. More Diagnostic Testing Concepts [next]In this part we discuss diagnostic

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[Updated December 7, 2009]PSA Screening and Early Detection. Part 1 - Guides PSA Screening and Early Detection. Part 2 - Key Points on PSA [previous]PSA Screening and Early Detection. Part 3. Current Environment [current]PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 4. Diagnostic Testing Concepts [next]PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 5. More Diagnostic Testing ConceptsTypically doctor and

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[Updated June 30, 2011]PSA Screening and Early Detection. Part 1 - Guides [previous]PSA Screening and Early Detection. Part 2 - Key Points on PSA [current]PSA Screening and Early Detection. Part 3. Current Environment [next]PSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 4. Diagnostic Testing ConceptsPSA Screening and Early Detection - Part 5. More Diagnostic Testing ConceptsEstablishing Baseline.

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This series is mainly concerned with using the PSA test to detect prostate cancer in subjects who have not previously been known to have prostate cancer. Using PSA testing for detecting recurrence in patients after local therapy, monitoring advanced cancer and watchful waiting entry and exit criteria are different applications not specifically addressed in this series although there may be some

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[July 3, 2011]Using Pubmed DirectlyThe primary source for abstracts of medical research is the National Insitute of Health (NIH) pubmed site found at http://pubmed.org. The PMID labels in most of the posts on this site reference abstracts there. One can simply enter words into the Pubmed search box at the top of the Pubmed screen or special keywords can be used to direct the search. For

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[revised June 8, 2008]Patrick Walsh performed the first nerve-sparing prostatectomy 25 years ago -- April 26, 1982 -- on Robert Hastings. Hastings, who was a Cleveland economics professor, was 53 years old at the time.See this NPR story and photo about Hastings and Walsh.An interview with Patrick Walsh can be found here.Readers interested in historical developments may also be interested in this

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PSA can vary due to a number of systematic factors such as those listed in [PMID: 7554241] (also found on the QA page of this Ontario document and at this Prostate Help page); however, it also varies from day to day and month to month on a purely random basis. Here we discuss the inherent variation in PSA and also analyse an experiment done by a group of cancer patients to investigate this

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The following changes have been made to the right hand side of the blog:important links within Key Posts listed to the right are also listed beside the link to the key post. They are shown in square brackets. The links for the Free Downloadable Materials have been categorized into two groups: general and nutrition. The links for the Free Downloadable Brochures/Flyers/Pamphlets have been

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We Are the World, M. Jackson and L. Richie (USA for Africa)Lionel Richie:There comes a time when we heed a certain callLionel Richie & Stevie Wonder:When the world must come together as oneStevie Wonder:There are people dyingPaul Simon:Oh, and it’s time to lend a hand to lifePaul Simon & Kenny Rogers:The greatest gift of allKenny Rogers:We can’t go on pretending day by dayJames Ingram:That the

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To use this site to keep up-to-date on Prostate Cancer news and developments try checking the following:Every day:click on Google in small letters above the revolving news at top of page. This will take you to prostate cancer news selected by Google and updated continuously throughout the day.click on Urotoday in small letters also above the revolving news at top. This is updated daily and

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