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Six myths about prostate cancer.

Beau2
Beau2 CSN Member Posts: 261 Member
edited August 2012 in Prostate Cancer #1
Six myths about prostate cancer. The ones about supplements do not surprise me; however, the one on over screening and over testing does.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120822181238.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)
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  • hopeful and optimistic
    hopeful and optimistic CSN Member Posts: 2,347 Member
    #2
    Thanks Beau2
    Great article....the one about lypopene surprises me.
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  • VascodaGama
    VascodaGama CSN Member Posts: 3,788 Member
    #3
    hopeful and optimistic said:

    Thanks Beau2
    Great article....the one about lypopene surprises me.

    Myth #6
    Interesting article but the Myth #6 is incorrectly termed by Etzioni. I think that the cohort of patients in the European Randomized Study of Prostate Cancer Screening include many that were diagnosed with cancer in very advanced status, therefore with no possibility for a treatment with intent at cure.

    Screening in many European countries is not followed to the same standards as those done in US. In fact the double in numbers of death from PCa is the rightful calculation, if one considers that screening with PSA is in fact happening due to symptoms related to advanced status. Surely in cases of earlier screening (young men) the rates decline.

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    VG
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  • mrspjd
    mrspjd CSN Member Posts: 694 Member
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    VascodaGama said:

    Myth #6
    Interesting article but the Myth #6 is incorrectly termed by Etzioni. I think that the cohort of patients in the European Randomized Study of Prostate Cancer Screening include many that were diagnosed with cancer in very advanced status, therefore with no possibility for a treatment with intent at cure.

    Screening in many European countries is not followed to the same standards as those done in US. In fact the double in numbers of death from PCa is the rightful calculation, if one considers that screening with PSA is in fact happening due to symptoms related to advanced status. Surely in cases of earlier screening (young men) the rates decline.

    Best
    VG

    Myth # 7 added
    Vasco highlights a good point. IMO, that leads to one more PCa myth:

    Myth # 7: Most everything you read on the internet about PCa is true and/or believable.
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