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IU Health to offer free prostate cancer screenings
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, so this is a perfect time for men to take advantage of free prostate-cancer screenings offered by Indiana University Health and the American Cancer Society.
Consider these facts from the American Cancer...Tags: Human Body, Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Blood, Health Treatments
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Prostate Cancer Awareness: What To Ask Your Urologist
PIX11.comYou wait hours to see a doctor and when you finally get into the office, your mind goes blank. So what questions should every man be asking their urologist? Dr. Phillipa Cheetham will give us a break down. Chances are men, at some point in your life...Tags: Human Body, University of California, Los Angeles, Drugs and Medicines, Hospitals and Clinics, Health
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Private insurance, better prostate surgery outcome?
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - U.S. men who have surgery for prostate cancer seem to fare better if they have private insurance rather than public coverage through Medicare or Medicaid, a new study finds. Researchers determined that among more than 61,000...Tags: Human Body, Insurance, Emergency Health Procedures, Medicare, Hospitals and Clinics
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So what's a man to do?
For men of a certain age getting a PSA blood test -- to check for possible prostate cancer -- is an annual affair. If you're over 50, chances are you've had the test and if you haven't it's not because your doctor didn't mention it. Now comes the...Tags: Human Body, Mammogram, Health, Blood, The New York Times
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Doctors defend prostate screening
For most of the last decade, Ronald Vari watched helplessly as his PSA level steadily rose, all too aware that the pattern could be a sign of prostate cancer. Yet initial biopsies didn't detect the disease.
Confused and frustrated, the Chicago resident...Tags: Demographics, Human Body, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Death, Health
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Remote-control surgery grows, despite inconclusive evidence
Chubby, pink and anesthetized into unconsciousness and paralysis, 16-week-old Ian Lund was a small bump under blue drapes on an operating table at University of Chicago Medicine. Perched above him was a robot, with arms like a three-legged spider.
One...Tags: Human Body, Crime, Law and Justice, Urinary Incontinence, Colleges and Universities, Ovarian Cancer
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OUR HEALTH: Colon Cancer
Too Young For Colon Cancer
“Stunned. Shocked. Numb.” That’s how Greg Myers describes his reaction when he learned what was causing his pain. “I guess the best way to describe it is numb – it was hard to process it all at one...Tags: Human Body, Demographics, Greg Myers, Colonoscopy, Genes and Chromosomes
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Men Show their Strength Against Prostate Cancer
Every 2.25 minutes a man is diagnosed with prostate cancer. Every 16.5 minutes a man dies from the disease. The second annual Faith-Love-Hope-Win 'Warrior Combines' was held in the intense Saturday morning heat at Blue Valley High School in Overland Park,...Tags: Human Body, Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Health, Prostate Cancer
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Villager Pub offers pints to toast cancer survivors
The "Pints for Prostates" campaign salutes survivors prostate cancer at events taking place across the country, including the Villager Pub in Charlevoix from noon to 10 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 30. For the third year, the Villager Pub will donate 50...Tags: Human Body, Bars and Clubs, Cancer, Health Organizations, Diseases and Illnesses
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Hepatitis victims sue over reused medical instruments
waynesboro@herald-mail.comA Fulton County, Pa., man with hepatitis C and his wife are suing Urology Associates of Chambersburg over the practice's reuse of prostate biopsy needles. The lawsuit filed in the Franklin County (Pa.) Court of Common Pleas alleges that plaintiff Frank...Tags: File Sharing, Human Body, Lawyers, Litigation, Biopsy
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Medical group to say men don't need prostate cancer screenings, source says
CNN Senior Medical CorrespondentThe U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the group that told women in their 40s that they don't need mammograms, will soon recommend that men not get screened for prostate cancer, according to a source privy to the task force deliberations. The task...Tags: Human Body, Medical Procedures and Tests, Cancer, Mammogram, Georgetown
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