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I'm freelance writer, editor of TheActiveSurveillor.com and a lecturer at Medill School at Northwestern U. and MPH grad student at UIllinois@Chicago.

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Not a Show About Nothing: Dr. Adam Weiner on the Realities of Active Surveillance

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By Howard Wolinsky 
| The Active Surveillor
By Howard Wolinsky, Editor, The Active Surveillor When men first hear they are going on Active Surveillance, the experience can sound like the Seinfeld of prostate cancer care: a plan about nothing. No surgery. No radiation. No dramatic intervention. Just a PSA here, an MRI there, a biomarker now, possibly a biopsy later. Y ada, yada, yada. A low-risk cancer about nothing? But Dr. Adam Weiner came to ASPI’s May 23 webinar to make clear that Active Surveillance is not a show about nothing.
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EXTRA!! EXTRA!! READ ALL ABOUT IT!! ASPI panel on biomarkers expanded to include Myriad’s new Prolaris

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By Howard Wolinsky 
| The Active Surveillor
By Howard Wolinsky, Editor, The Active Surveillor Dr. Angelo A. Baccala Jr., MD, FACS, MBA, will join an ASPI expert panel on June 27 to discuss biomarkers in prostate cancer, with his adding a particular focus on Myriad Genetics’ new Prolaris + AI platform and how it may inform decisions about Active Surveillance versus definitive treatment. The discussion is entitled Prostate Cancer Testing: What Emerging Biomarkers Mean For You.
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[Resend to everyone] In CBS interview Sunday, Jill Biden talks about her husband's 'just shocking' White House prostate care

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By Howard Wolinsky 
| The Active Surveillor
By Howard Wolinsky, Editor, The Active Surveillor Former First Lady Jill Biden’s new CBS interview about her husband’s prostate cancer diagnosis puts a spotlight on an issue familiar to readers of The Active Surveillor: the murky guidance around PSA screening in men 70 and older. In the preview segment for CBS News Sunday Morning, she calls former President Joe Biden’s diagnosis “just shocking” and says White House doctors “somehow” missed it.
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