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Cancer doctor Otis Brawley urges MCG graduates to focus on disease prevention

...with mistakes (from not following the science)," Brawley said.For instance, the rush to screen for and treat prostate cancer in the past 20 years now appears to be wrong, he said."We're starting to realize we jumped the gun," Brawley...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2013-05-09/cancer-doctor-otis-brawle
More than $57 million will boost cancer services at GRU

...also help it to address some key questions in health disparities, such as why black men are twice as likely to get prostate cancer as whites and three times more likely to die from it in Georgia, he said."That would absolutely help us in teasing...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2013-05-07/more-57-million-will-boos
PSA should be limited to some, group finds

...Physicians issued "Screening for Prostate Cancer: A Guidance Statement" in the...substantial harms of screening for prostate cancer." The physician should base...patient's preference, his risk for prostate cancer, age, health and life expectancy...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-04-08/psa-should-be-limited-some-g
GHSU approach could boost vaccine in prostate cancer

...help boost a vaccine against prostate cancer and might lead to other cancer...because of the higher toll that prostate cancer takes among blacks, said GHSU...out, cultured to recognize a prostate cancer protein, and then given back...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-11-30/ghsu-approach-could-boost-va
Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies

...Belgium, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain.Schwarzkopf was a national spokesman for prostate cancer awareness and for Recovery of the Grizzly Bear, served on the Nature Conservancy board of governors and was active...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-12-27/retired-gen-norman-schwarzkopf-dies
Geography determines who gets surgery, study finds

...in the South Atlantic. Augusta was near the bottom in rates of hip replacement and surgery to treat early-stage prostate cancer, for instance, but near the top in balloon angioplasty and similar interventions to treat stable angina, the study...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-11-29/geography-determines-who-get
Georgia's Jarvis Jones isn't expected to return

...next fall as he continues undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.Sparks, 68, has a 308-83-2 record at Carson-Newman...in 27 seasons.After being diagnosed in June with prostate cancer that has since spread to the bone, Sparks continued...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/college/2012-12-13/georgias-jarvis-jones-isn
GHSU cancer trials ongoing, encouraging

...the first of their kind ? investigating immunotherapy-based treatments to improve survival rates for advanced prostate cancer and pancreatic cancer.Another rapidly growing area is molecular targeted agents, or MTAs ? drug therapies that...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/opinion-columns/2012-12-15/ghsu-cancer-tria
UConn's Calhoun resting after hip surgery

...Hasheem Thabeet said.It's the latest in a string of health problems for Calhoun. He also has survived skin and prostate cancer, and missed eight games last season because of the effects of spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spine, normally...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/college/2012-08-05/uconns-calhoun-resting-af
Know benefits, risks of prostate cancer testing

...screening, or a PSA test, for prostate cancer. The potential benefit does...to evaluate men's risk for prostate cancer, although its accuracy and efficacy for decreasing the risk of prostate cancer death has long been a matter...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/opinion-columns/2012-09-08/know-benefits-ri