Harvard Medical Launches New Prostate Health Web Site
Surgeon Relates How Radical Surgery is Rather Crude and a Relatively Blind Procedure
A new and comprehensive web site on prostate knowledge covers news, expert commentary and cancer research including personal case histories. Unfortunately, in my humble opinion, they fall in the anti screening camp and the lead banner accompanied with a video says “PSA Screening Not Recommended for Men Over Age of 75”. I don’t know about you but 75 is not nearly as old as I once thought it was especially since I’m going to be 74 in two months. Please let me know your opinion and analysis.
Here’s the site Harvard Prostate Health In the patient perspective section there’s an excellent article by a surgeon and his wife relating how he explored radical surgery, robotic surgery and radiation; and when he chose radiation. Here are points from the article:
- if there was positive margin after surgery he would have to have radiation. The level of incontinence with both surgery and radiation is higher than either modality alone.
- as a surgeon he had seen standard radical surgery done and concluded that it’s a rather crude, relatively blind procedure.
With full credit to Harvard Medical School here’s the article in PDF format.
Insert article from the Proton Therapy Offers More Effective Treatment (a pdf on PP site)
Description of the RNA Site
Newer Video on Proton Therapy (6 minutes)
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