CDC: Cancer Prevention Services Below Target Goals
Increasing health insurance coverage and access to usual source of care necessary to meet targets.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Patients Misinformed About Their Risk of Cancer
Seventeen percent of Americans think that there is nothing people can do to change their risk.
Prostate Cancer Still a Leading Cause of Cancer Deaths
Death from PCa is down 45% from peak rates, but more than 29,000 men are projected to die from PCa in 2014.
New Ablative Techniques in Urologic Oncology
Innovative approaches offer the potential for effective treatments to limited target areas with improved side effect profiles.
Survey: Docs Not Discussing Cancer Screening Risks with Patients
Only 9.5% of the study participants were told about the possibilities of overdiagnosis and overtreatment by their physicians.
Few Patients Informed About Risks of Cancer Overdiagnosis
Most want to be told of screening harms, but only 9.5 percent informed about overdiagnosis, overtx.
Adding Chemo to Radiotherapy Aids Testicular Cancer Treatment
Giving men a single dose of chemotherapy along with radiotherapy may help improve the effectiveness of treatment.
Cancer More Likely in Azoospermic Men
Azoospermic men may be nearly three times as likely to receive a diagnosis of cancer as men in the overall population.
Rate of Nephrectomy at Lymph Node Dissection Is Declining
Study attributes this to greater understanding of pathology, increased surveillance.
Undescended Testes Raise Testicular Cancer Risk
The malignancy is three times more likely to develop in boys with cryptorchidism.
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