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Singer Dan Fogelberg dies of prostate cancer
That's Fit
Dec 17th 2007 10:31PM Young musicians with prostate cancer, like my friend, like Frank Zappa, Quincy Jones, Phil Lesh ... Scary. :-(
A large majority of physicians in training do not understand statistics, says Yale study
The Cancer Blog
Dec 9th 2007 11:18PM and here is the link to it: http://www.laprp.com/article.php?aid=348
A large majority of physicians in training do not understand statistics, says Yale study
The Cancer Blog
Dec 9th 2007 11:17PM And forget about explaining multivariate analyses. Still, some are easy. At a recent presentation on prostate cancer statistics, Peter Boyle kept them simple: 55% reduction in prostate cancer mortality. Most doctors can understand that one.
Obesity predicts prostate cancer recurrence
The Cancer Blog
Nov 12th 2007 10:16PM In 1997, we published a study entitled Competing Risks of Mortality in Prostate Cancer. The study says that an underlying factor might explain variations in disease-specific and disease-nonspecific mortality. In other words, this original evil factor might make you fat and dead of prostate cancer. If true, it would imply that being fat has nothing to do with making you dead faster from prostate cancer. Rather it would mean that being fat and death from cancer markers of the same unidentified variable.
Robo-surgeon to perform zero-G surgery
Engadget
Nov 5th 2007 8:54PM Perhaps the area in which robots are most commonly applied is prostate cancer surgery . Here, as elsewhere, the question is what matters: man or machine? As of today, there is little question that man is the critical factor in robotic prostate surgery . Will this change with newer robots? We will see. As with any prostate cancer treatment, patients had best first learn which questions to ask. In the case of prostate cancer, it's "who's my surgeon?" and now "who's my gizmo?"
