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Christopher Lukas

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More On Watchful Waiting

A couple of weeks ago, I started to talk about the idea that doing “nothing” or next to nothing about your prostate cancer might be a worthwhile plan of action. Some people may think this is a dangerous, if not anti-medical, approach. In the interim, an article in the New York Times approached the subject from a different perspective, and I... Read moreChevron
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Special Report: Clinical Trials

In a recent article by HealthDay News, E.J. Mundell, a HealthDay reporter, points to a number of issues that have severely reduced the volunteers available for clinical trials in a variety of cancers. Because this is an important aspect of care for some cancer patients, I wanted to comment on the article, the problems and the opportunities. First... Read moreChevron
posted 07/12/2006, comments (0)|
Christopher Lukas

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Demystifying Your Oncologist

As most authors do, I went on a radio tour when my book on prostate cancer was published. One of the stations that asked me to do a telephone interview was halfway across the country. I’d never been there; I didn’t know the station or the host; and I didn’t know the urologist who came on to discuss my views. It was all very polite and... Read moreChevron
posted 07/06/2006, comments (0)|
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The Fear in the Middle of the Night

Some of you may have felt that my last column was insensitive. In that essay, I was suggesting that you might not have cancer that needed treatment, and so I didn’t pay attention to the very real fears that you have – whether or not you were seriously ill. But I do take cancer seriously. Having had it twice, I know how bad the midnight anxiety... Read moreChevron
posted 06/27/2006, comments (0)|
Christopher Lukas

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Do You Have Prostate Cancer?

This may seem like a silly question: I mean, why would you be searching this web site if you didn’t? But it’s not as silly as you may think. While most men who live to 80 or 85 will have some degree of prostate cancer eventually (we know this from autopsies of thousands of men who died with prostate cancer, but not of it), you may be here... Read moreChevron
posted 06/22/2006, comments (0)|

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