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Ethical Challenges About Voluntary Assisted Dying
Much of the focus on new voluntary assisted dying laws is centred on patient autonomy, but it is only one of the four pillars. Does the legislation also satisfy the other three tenets of beneficence, non-maleficence and justice? Will voluntary assisted dying (VAD) legislation provide compassionate physician-assisted dying, as hoped, or are we providing state-sanctioned euthanasia and assisted suicide? It certainly raises some important ethical questions.
Why No Man Should Take a PSA Blood Test for Early Stage Prostate Cancer Without Reading This
Men with early-stage abnormalities of the prostate who are monitored for any progression of the cancer live just as long as men who opted for complete removal of the prostate and now live with the immediate consequences. To view this article subscribe or purchase a yearly pass here.
Latest Research Shows Surgery For Early Stage Prostate Cancer Doesn't Save Lives
From the 1980s, when prostate screening became available, many men over 40 were diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer even though they may not have had any symptoms. The word cancer understandably strikes fear into the hearts of many, and most would assume the best course of action would be to have the cancer removed, whatever the side effects may be.
Latest Research Shows Surgery For Early Stage Prostate Cancer Doesn't Save Lives
From the 1980s, when prostate screening became available, many men over 40 were diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer even though they may not have had any symptoms. The word cancer understandably strikes fear into the hearts of many, and most would assume the best course of action would be to have the cancer removed, whatever the side effects may be.
Surgery for early-stage prostate cancer is invasive and doesn't save lives
From the 1980s, when prostate screening became available, many men over 40 were diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer even though they may not have had any symptoms. The word cancer understandably strikes fear into the hearts of many, and most would assume the best course of action would be to have the cancer removed, whatever the side-effects may be.
Latest research shows surgery for early stage prostate cancer doesn't save lives
From the 1980s, when prostate screening became available, many men over 40 were diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer even though they may not have had any symptoms. The word cancer understandably strikes fear into the hearts of many, and most would assume the best course of action would be to have the cancer removed, whatever the side effects may be.
Costs and concerns in cancer care | Issue 5 | Volume 39 | Australian Prescriber
Some recently developed anticancer drugs appear to be a major advance. In metastatic malignant melanoma a number of new immune checkpoint inhibitors have created excitement and hope in a disease for which there was previously no effective treatment.1 One magazine hailed them as ‘the most revolutionary cancer treatment in decades’.2 These targeted drugs are likely to have a major impact on the treatment outcomes for other advanced incurable cancers too, but they are very expensive.
what's the protocol for chemotherapy and are low doses less effective?
The New South Wales government this week released the final report of its investigation into chemotherapy “underdosing” of patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer in a Sydney hospital. The report was commissioned after the ABC reported in February that up to 70 cancer patients at St Vincent’s Hospital had “received significantly less than the recommended dose of a chemotherapy drug”. This week, it emerged more than 100 people were treated with the same low dose.
Authors’ reply to Kole
Ian E Haines, associate professor1 2, Richard J Ablin, professor3 4, George L Gabor Miklos, founder51Melbourne Oncology Group, Cabrini Medical Centre, Malvern 3144, Australia2AMREP Department of Medicine, Monash University, Australia3Department of Pathology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA4Arizona Cancer Center and BIO5 Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA5Atomic Oncology, Newport, NSW 2106, Australiaian.haines{at}monash.eduWe thank Kole for his response to our article...
Screening for prostate cancer: time to put all the data on the table
Screening for prostate cancer with the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test remains controversial, and guidance varies around the world.
4 Reasons I Won't Have a Prostate Cancer Blood Test
Cancer Council Australia and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia yesterday released new draft guidelines to help GPs counsel men who ask about prostate cancer tests. They advise GPs to explain the pros and cons of testing and, if the man wants to proceed, to give him a prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test every two years between the ages of 50 to 69.
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