Prostate Cancer Screening – Light At The End of the Tunnel?
Nice summary here from Casey Parker of BroomeDocs http://broomedocs.com/2017/02/prostate-cancer-2017-light-end-tunnel/ Advertisements
Prostate cancer screening update 2017
If you follow this blog far enough back you will read early rumblings about the futility of prostate cancer screening. The last ten years has seen a “slow growth” of international guidelines stating that this is something that we probably should NOT be doing… and yet, it remains one of the most common screening… via Prostate…
FOAM4GP Map – Prostate screening. “What do you suggest doc?”
Prostate screening is a complicated mix of opinions, evidence, emotions, and controversy. There are many stakeholders interested in appropriate prostate screening and it is a question we as Australian GPs get asked regularly about. So what do you do? What should you do? And what do you use to help make the decision with your…
Help Me Doc ….. I’m tired all the time
Originally posted on rain0021:
“Help Me Doc ….. I’m tired all the time” Its Friday 4:30, the end of the day, you skipped lunch to cut off a BCC, spent the first hour of the day organising retrieval of a patient you admitted late yesterday with chest pain who had a troponin leak overnight. And…
The great PSA debate #pcwc13
PSA debate heats up this week!
If you were confused about PSA testing prior to this month, prepare to be even more confused! The battle lines have been drawn! NHMRC are preparing an evidence based guideline and its open for public comment as a draft right now. Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) Testing for Prostate Cancer in Asymptomatic Men: Information for Health…
