When to screen for prostate cancer: in an update of its 2001 guidelines, the American Cancer Society stresses the importance of sharing the screening decision with the patient.Sherman, Carl
In this Q & A, Guest Editors for BMC Medicine’s ‘Spotlight on Prostate Cancer’ article collection, Sigrid Carlsson and Andrew Vickers, invite some of the world’s key opinion leaders to discuss who, and when, to screen for prostate cancer. In response to the points of view from the ...
When to diagnose and how to treat prostate cancer in the 'not too fit' elderly The appropriate management of elderly patients diagnosed with prostate cancer remains controversial. In order to provide guidelines as to when aggressive l... P Dahm,AD Silverstein,AZ Weizer,... - 《Hematological ...
Once you get screens, you are at risk of having this biopsy. Are we biopsying the wrong men too? Is there some evidence on that? Dr. Carlsson:Absolutely. Many unnecessary biopsies are being performed. We should definitely focus on biopsying men at high risk and not just biopsy everyone.T...
Here, we show that de novo lipid biosynthesis can impose a substantial NAD+ consumption cost in proliferating cancer cells. When electron acceptors are limited, environmental lipids become crucial for proliferation because NAD+ is required to generate precursors for fatty acid biosynthesis. We find ...
effective screening approaches, targeting the men who are at the highest risk of prostate cancer and then also safely letting people know they can screen less regularly. The ACS launched the "I Love You, Get Screened" campaign to encourage everyone to talk to their loved ones about cancer scre...
“When we initially started to screen for breast cancer we were looking for small, invasive cancers with the idea that, if only we could find them early we would really dramatically reduce the chance of dying of breast cancer,” Dr. Esserman said. “The problem is, the people who have ...
Accordingly we have little information on whether men with PSA less than 4 mg/ml do or do not have prostate cancer. True disease state is therefore known for only a subset of participants, and because that subset is determined by the diagnostic test result, data are subject to what has ...
completed long-term randomized control trial on prostate, lung, colorectal and ovariancancer, to consider several factors affecting the value of screening - over-diagnosis, lead time on a diagnosis and other statistical distortions - to look at not just how many people die, but also life ...
Breast self-exams:Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed worldwide,according to the WHO, followed by lung, colorectal, prostate, skin and stomach cancers. Both men and women can get breast cancer, so men with a family historyshould be aware of the symptoms as well,experts...