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Prostate cancer in the Vancouver Sun
2010.29.09
Prostate Cancer
British Columbia, unlike most other provinces, doesn’t pay for a blood test that can indicate prostate cancer. But that could change, as Vancouver’s leading experts review research that shows the prostate-specific antigen blood test saves lives.
Prostate
It’s estimated only half of men over 50 get tested — either with a digital rectal exam or with a prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, blood test. One word, Gross says: denial.
Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun Theatre Critic who had a PSA test on video for the Van Sun prostate package, prostate cancer patient Don Nishio, and Dr. Tom Pickles, a Radiation Oncologist at the BC Cancer Agency join us for a live-chat about prostate cancer Tuesday at noon.
When a person is diagnosed with cancer, his or her life is literally turned inside out.
Vancouver researchers have developed a new cancer-fighting drug that will prolong the life of patients with advanced prostate cancer, doubling their life expectancy compared with a decade ago.
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B.C. scientists have developed an experimental new drug to shrink prostate cancer tumours, based on molecules extracted from a marine sponge collected in New Guinea.
Source: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/prostate-cancer/index.html
